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Paul works in the Ministry of Justice in the United Kingdom. Since 2007 he has lead the cross-government Hate Crime Programme which brings all sectors of government together to coordinate efforts to improve the response to hate crime across the criminal justice system.
Paul is the UK National Point of Contact to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on hate crime and has worked to share good practice within the OSCE region and within Africa.
Paul has 30 years experience as a police officer and is a member of the National Police Chief’s Council’s Hate Crime Group. He manages True Vision (www.reportit.org.uk) on behalf of the police and is the author of the 2014 Police Hate Crime Manual which offers guidance to all UK police officers and partners.
Paul is the co-editor of the 2014 ‘Routledge International Handbook on Hate Crime’ and ‘Tackling Disability Discrimination and Disability Hate Crime – A Multidisciplinary Guide published by Jessica Kingsley in 2015.
Paul was awarded an OBE in the 2014 New Years Honours list for services to policing, equality and human rights.
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Neil Chakraborti is a Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester. He has published extensively within the field of hate crime, and has been commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a range of other funding bodies to conduct research on targeted hostility, victimisation and diversity. His books include Hate Crime: Impact, Causes and Responses (Sage, 2015 (2nd edition) and 2009 (1st edition) with Jon Garland); Responding to Hate Crime: The Case for Connecting Policy and Research (The Policy Press, 2014 with Jon Garland); Islamophobia, Victimisation and the Veil (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 with Irene Zempi); Hate Crime: Concepts, Policy, Future Directions (Routledge, 2010); and Rural Racism (Routledge, 2004 with Jon Garland).
In 2012 he was appointed as a Commissioner on the first ever nationwide review of sex inside prisons, and in 2015 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Leicester for his work in the field of ethnic diversity. Neil is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ontario, Chair of Research for the Board of Trustees of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Series Editor of Palgrave Hate Studies, and sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Palgrave Communications.
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