The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It – Matthew Williams

The Science of Hate: How Prejudice Becomes Hate and What We Can Do to Stop It

Author: Matthew Williams

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Print Length: 448 pages

Genre: Non-Fiction / Popular Science, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Social Science

Topic: Hate, Prejudice, Science, History, Culture & Society, Human Nature & Character, Human Psyche, Ethics & Society, Hate Speech, Trauma, Crimes, Dehumanization, Persecution, Violence & Mass Violence

Why do people hate? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.

Are our brains wired to hate? Does online hate incite violence on the streets? With hate crimes at an all-time high, what can we do to help turn the tide? Drawing on twenty years of research as well as his own experience as a hate crime victim, world-renowned criminologist Matthew Williams uncovers the answers to these pressing questions of our age.

Surveying human behaviour across the globe and reaching back through time, from our tribal ancestors in prehistory to artificial intelligence in the twenty-first century, The Science of Hate is a groundbreaking and surprising examination of the elusive ‘tipping point’ between prejudice and hate.

Prologue: Living with Hate

Introduction

PART ONE

1. What It Means to Hate

2. Hate Counts

3. The Brain and Hate

4. My Brain and Hate

5. Group Threat and Hate

PART TWO

6. Trauma, Containment and Hate

7. Trigger Events and the Ebb and Flow of Hate

8. Subcultures of Hate

9. Rise of the Bots and Trolls

10. Hate in Word and Deed

11. The Tipping Point from Prejudice to Hate and How to Prevent It

Postscript

Acknowledgements

List of plates

Notes

Index

Robyn Maynard is a Professor of Criminology and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts in hate crime and hate speech. He advises and has conducted research for TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Google, EE, British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Airbus, The Professional Footballers’ Association, the UK Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the US Department of Justice. Matthew also founded and directs HateLab, a multimillion-pound global hub for data and insight to monitor and counter online hate speech and crime, and he has conducted the largest dedicated study of hate victimisation in the UK.

Source: https://thescienceofhate.com/author/

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