Gender, Crime and Victimisation Survey
20 January 2016
This research seeks answers to some of the questions surrounding whether gender should be recognised as a 'hate crime' category. The survey asks victims of gender-related crime in the UK what happened to them, how it affected them, and what it was about their experience which caused them to think it was gender-related. They are also asked whether they considered this incident to be a hate crime, and whether gender should be recognised as a hate crime in the UK (which it currently is not).
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Ethical approval
This study was granted ethical approval by both the University of Kent and the University of Sussex (the co-researcher's host institution) in December 2015.
About the researcher
Dr Marian Duggan's research focuses on gender, sexuality and victimisation. In this project, she is working with Dr Hannah Mason-Bish (Sussex) who has also published on gendered victimisation and hate crime. They seek to explore how gender, crime and victimisation may or may not be considered 'hate crimes' by those who have experienced them.
