Criminology with Psychology: Hate Crime Trends, Controversies, and Enhanced Punishments

CRIMINOLOGY WITH
PSYCHOLOGY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Statistics and trends......................................................................................................................3
Controversies...............................................................................................................................5
Enhanced Punishments................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Crime varies from person to person, its nature, the manner in which it has been
committed, the victims, all differ on the basis of psyche of the person who is committing the
crime. Under criminology with psychology, the causes and methods in which crime has been
committed are studied and the psychology of the criminal and the reason are identified that led to
the person committing crime (Walters, Paterson, Brown and McDonnell, 2017). In this report, a
discussion has ben made on the concept of hate crime and hate incidents in UK and the
punishments that are given to such criminal offences. The reasons behind committing such
crimes have been identified along with their statistics and data in UK. These crime rates will be
then evaluated in terms of the reasons behind such increasing or decreasing trends. The report
will further evaluate the different controversies that occurred in the United Kingdom nation and
the factors or facts associated with this controversy that led to the increase in the trends of such
hate crimes that were being spread in the country. Lastly, it will be evaluated that whether the
punishments and penalties that are being imposed on such hate criminals who were charged with
these offences are too severe or not. It will be discussed that whether punishments a nd are
justified or not and lastly an appropriate conclusion will be presented in the report summing up
all the major facts that were discussed in the report.
MAIN BODY
Statistics and trends
Hate incident and hate crime are two different kinds of offences and can be clearly
distinguished form each other. The hate incident might not constitute the part of criminal
offences and can be defined as that incident that is motivated by or behind which the reason is
hostility or prejudice. Hate crime on the other hand is committed against an individual or a
specific property and if this prejudice or hostility is established, then it is treated as a criminal
offence (Paterson, Brown and Walters, 2019). However, when the criminal does not intend to
show any hostility towards the victim despite hating them, then this is simply termed as hate
incident that cannot be classified under the criminal offences as hate crime.
The figures related to hate crimes has continuously being increased and the figures
related to hate crime in the year 2017 has specifically increased on the social media platforms
(Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2019). The data pertaining to the hate crime can be collected
from two major sources i.e. National Police Chief's Council i.e. NPPC and the Crime Survey for