Employment Risks

Certain categories of workers are at particular risk of racist motivated crime and harassment at their workplace. For example:

• Shopkeepers and restaurant staff are often at particular risk because of their high visibility and their contact with the public.

  • A high proportion of shopkeepers think that some of the incidents they suffered were racially motivated. In Newham 42% of victims of shop theft suspected a racial motive.

Ekblom, P. & Simon, F. with Birch Snell (1988) Crime Prevention & Racial Harassment in Asian-run Small Shops: The Scope for Prevention. Police Research Group Crime Prevention Unit Series. Paper 15. London. Home Office

Roughly 1 in12 incidents of criminal damage, violent attacks and abuse in the Belgrave area of Leicester were believed by victims to have been racially motivated.

   Wood, J. et al, Crime Against Small Business: Facing the Challenge. Crime Concern.