This article presents findings from a qualitative study of criminal cases labelled hate crime in Norway. The author asks what kind of knowledge is being produced through the criminal cases and what does it say about policing? The study captures how the cases become registered in the system. This results in the creation of three main categories of events, namely what the author calls post hoc victim reported incident, post hoc police reported incident and in situ incident. The author finds that the practice-oriented document analysis enables an understanding of how some acts are criminalized and turned into ‘hate crimes.’ In addition, the few cases that are exercised in court, have an impact on policing hate crime, as actors and materiality come together in producing a sense of justice, urgency and need of police attention on future, similar events.

本文介绍了对挪威被标记为仇恨犯罪的刑事案件的定性研究结果。作者询问通过刑事案件产生了什么样的知识，它对警务有什么看法？该研究记录了案例如何在系统中注册。这导致创建了三个主要事件类别，即作者所说的事后受害人报告事件、事后警方报告事件和现场事件。作者发现，以实践为导向的文件分析有助于理解某些行为如何被定罪并转变为“仇恨犯罪”。此外，在法庭上审理的少数案件对监管仇恨犯罪有影响，因为行为者和实质性因素共同产生了正义感、紧迫感和需要警方关注未来类似事件的感觉。