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Tackling Racist and Xenophobic Violence in Europe: Case Studies

NCJ Number
178672
Editor(s)
R. Oakley
Date Published
1997
Length
150 pages
Annotation
This is a collection of papers presented at a 1994 seminar on combating racist and xenophobic violence and harassment.
Abstract
The document includes the following 11 papers: (1) The Nature of Racist and Xenophobic Violence in Europe; (2) Initiatives in the Metropolitan Police Service, London; (3) Training for the Judiciary in England and Wales; (4) Local Government Initiatives in the London Borough of Waltham Forest; (5) The Role of Local Anti-Discrimination Bureaus: Strategies to Cope With Racist Discrimination, Harassment and Violence in Rotterdam; (6) Police Initiatives Against Racism and Xenophobic Violence in North Rhine-Westphalia; (7) Role of the Federal Criminal Police in Germany; (8) Local Government Initiatives in Berlin; (9) Work of the Martin Luther King Project, Hungary; (10) Movement Against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia (Belgium): History and Development; (11) The Role of Racial Equality Councils in the United Kingdom. Notes, tables, appendix