Jennifer Schweppe is a lecturer in law at the University of Limerick. She is co-founder and co-director of the International Network for Hate Studies. She is also co-founder and co-Director of the University of Limerick based Hate and Hostility Research Group, the only academic research group in Ireland dedicated to exploring and understanding hate crime in an Irish context. She has published widely in the area of hate crime, and her work explores the experience, understanding and potential future reform of hate crime in an Irish context. Her work in the area of hate crime has been funded by the Irish Research Council (Monitoring Hate Crime: Analysis and Development of Online Third Party Reporting), the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (Out of the Shadows: 360? Evaluation of Hate Crime in Ireland) and the European Union (The Life Cycle of a Hate Crime: Best practice in the prevention and prosecution of Hate Crime). Mark Walters is a Reader in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Sussex. He is also the co-founder and co-director of the International Network for Hate Studies. He has published widely in the field of hate crime, focusing in particular on the criminalisation of hate-motivated offences, criminological theories of causation, and the use of restorative justice for hate crime. His monograph Hate Crime and Restorative Justice: Exploring Causes, Repairing Harms was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He is currently involved in a number of empirical studies on hate crime including: The indirect experience of hate crime: the victim group response (funded by The Leverhulme Trust); The Life Cycle of a Hate Crime: Best practice in the prevention and prosecution of Hate Crime (funded by the EU); and Policing Hate Crime: modernising the craft, an evidence-based approach (funded by HEFCE/College of Policing).
