ABSTRACT

This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda. Engaging with the latest debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it goes beyond conventional notions of hate crime to look at violences in their myriad forms as they are seen to impact upon disabled people’s lives.

Despite a raft of relevant policy and legislation, few have attempted to draw together research on the disabled as victims of hate crime and violence. This innovative volume conceptualizes issues of disability, hate crime and violence and connects empirical research with theoretical insights. Making links between criminal justice policy, social care and welfare, it highlights areas of best practice and makes suggestions for policy and legislative reform. Disability, Hate Crime and Violence is written in accessible language, with minimal jargon and an international focus. Each chapter is grounded in research and practice, with relevant policy and legislation clearly signposted throughout.

Disability, Hate Crime and Violence provides a much needed theoretical and practical investigation of the key issues around disabled hate crime and violence. It is an important work for students and academics researching and studying in disability studies, criminology, social policy and sociology, as well as those with an interest in domestic violence studies and broader historical and philosophical constructions of disability, violence and social harms.

part |83 pages

Conceptualising Disablist Hate crime

chapter |15 pages

Vulnerable to Misinterpretation

Disabled People, ‘vulnerability', Hate Crime and the Fight for Legal Recognition

chapter |12 pages

The Wrong War?

Critically Examining the ‘fight against Disability Hate Crime'

part |100 pages

Responses to Disablist Hate Crime

chapter |11 pages

Disablist Violence in the US

Unacknowledged Hate Crime

chapter |12 pages

Disabled Women and Domestic Violence

Increased Risk but Fewer Services

chapter |8 pages

Disability Hate Crime

A Campaign Perspective

chapter |9 pages

A Case for Engagement

The Role of the Uk Disability Hate Crime Network (Dhcn)

chapter |12 pages

Hate Crime or Mate Crime?

Disablist Hostility, Contempt and Ridicule

chapter |19 pages

Making Disablist Hate Crime Visible

Addressing the Challenges of Improving Reporting

chapter |11 pages

Civil Courage, Civil Societies and Good Samaritans

A Response to Disablist Hate Crime

chapter |16 pages

After Disablist Hate Crime

Which Interventions Really Work to Resist Victimhood and Build Resilience with Survivors?