RT Article T1 The production of hate crime victim status: Discourses of normalisation and the experiences of LGBT community members JF Criminology & criminal justice VO 25 IS 3 SP 890 OP 910 A1 Haynes, Amanda A1 Schweppe, Jennifer A1 Garland, Jon 1967- A2 Schweppe, Jennifer A2 Garland, Jon 1967- LA English YR 2025 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1929300492 AB This article identifies discourses which serve to ‘normalise’ experiences of anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) violence and prevent harmed LGBT persons from accessing the status of ‘hate crime victim’. The phenomenon of normalisation is established in research addressing homophobic, biphobic and transphobic violence, where it is understood fundamentally as the rendering unremarkable of violent manifestations of hate due to their ubiquity. This article interrogates the dynamics of the normalisation process. Drawing on a Foucauldian approach, we explore normalisation as a disciplinary practice, through which people who have experienced anti-LGBT violence are denied access to the status of hate crime victim. Through discourse analysis of focus group data, we identify obstacles to identification and self-identification as a victim grounded in the experience and anticipation of judgement both within society and the LGBT community. Discourses against which the claims of LGBT people are adjudicated (re)produce cultural myths about hate crime, about anti-LGBT violence and about victimhood. While this article acknowledges that the value of identifying as a victim is not uncontested, it also asserts that the practice of normalisation, in denying this status, impacts on access to justice and to support. Far from passive, LGBT people who do not self-identify as victims find ways to manage the impacts of hate using their own resources. In this manner, the disciplinary practice of ‘normalisation’ responsibilises persons harmed by social ills for their own care and silences potentially disruptive claims of victimhood on the part of marginal people. K1 victim studies K1 Normalisation K1 LGBT K1 ideal victim K1 hate studies K1 Hate Crime DO 10.1177/17488958231160252