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ROTA’s Transformative Justice Project has made important contributions in providing some solutions including multi-agency partnership work and the use of restorative justice approaches to resolve conflict where it occurs.
Neena Samota, NACRO
The Transformative Justice Project is a cross-sector, multi-agency partnership established to address hate crime in the community through the principles of restorative justice.
Hate crime is defined as any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person. (Macpherson, 1999) In 2009, the most commonly reported hate crime in London was racist crime (8,270 incidents), followed by homophobic crime (1,362 incidents) and faith crime (667 incidents).
In the four years ending March 2010, more than 48,400 defendants were prosecuted for crimes involving racist or religious crime (CPS, Hate crime and crimes against older people report, 2009-10)
"The desired aim of the forum is to ‘transform’ the way that statutory, public and private sector agencies and organisations work together in establishing and delivering appropriate and effective solutions for high victimisation level groups."
Yvette Williams, TJF Chair, 2008/9
"The UK is amongst world leaders in the way that it responds to hate crime, but there is still much work to do. One of the greatest challenges is to reduce the under-reporting of hate crime."
Professor John Grieve CBE, independent chair of the government's Hate Crime Advisory Group
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Report online:
http://www.report-it.org.uk/your_police_force
ROTA operates Monday to Thursday. Our contact details are as follows:
Race on the Agenda
c/o Voluntary Sector Centre
International Press Centre
76 Shoe Lane
London EC4A 3JB
Tel: 020 7842 8533
Fax: 020 7842 8535
Email: rota@rota.org.uk
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