Rowe’s (2007) edited collection Policing Beyond Macpherson (Willan Publishing) provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments relating to policing and diversity, with particular reference to issues of race and racism. The book considers the history of police relations with minority ethnic groups in post-war Britain, the implications of ‘diversity’ for internal police organization and culture, the effective­ness of training in promoting diversity, the nature of institutional racism, the role of Black Police Associations, the policing of Muslim communities, ‘disproportionality’ and stop and search, the impact of the Lawrence case on police murder investigations, and an insider account of the police service response to the Macpherson Report.

Chakraborti and Garland have written and edited a number of pieces that analyse conceptual and operational issues relating to hate crime. Their 2009 book Hate Crime: Impact, Causes, and Consequences is the strongest overview of the develop­ment of debates relating to hate crime in Britain. They explored conceptual debates about broadening the scope of hate crime in their 2012 article in Theoretical Criminology.

Foster, Newburn and Souhami (2005) examined the impact of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry on the police service, based upon research conducted on behalf of the Home Office. They found improvements in terms of the conduct of murder investigations, the recording and monitoring of hate crimes, family liaison, and the excision of racist language among police officers. However, they also found that developments had not been introduced uniformly across the service, that reforms lacked depth and that there was a lack of progress in tackling institutional racism in general terms.

A host of Home Office reports and statistical information about policing, race and racism, are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office

Information about diversity issues in the Metropolitan Police, including race equality schemes and diversity, is available at http://content.met.police.uk/Site/diversityandequality

A similar range of resources relating to hate crime can be found at www.gov. uk/government/policies/reducing-and-preventing-crime--2/supporting-pages/ hate-crime.

An important insight into the views of minority officers on diversity in policing can be found in: Cashmore, E. (2000) ‘Behind the Window Dressing: Ethnic Minority Police Perspectives on Cultural Diversity’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 28: 327–41.

Holdaway explored police race relations in the context of recent developments in the diversity agenda and their prospects in the Big Society: Holdaway, S. (2013) ‘Police Race Relations in the Big Society: Continuity and Change’, Policing and Society, 13: 215–30.

Understanding the nature of hate-crime victimisation is a significant challenge in developing more effective responses, and this article provides excellent insight into the nature of the experience: Chakraborti, N. and Garland, J. (2012) ‘Reconceptualising Hate Crime Victimization through the Lens of Vulnerability and “Difference”, Theoretical Criminology, 16: 499–514

Models of policing diversity and their differences from previous approaches to minority groups are explored in: Rowe, M. (2002) ‘Policing Diversity: Themes and Concerns from the Recent British Experience’, Police Quarterly, 4: 424–46.