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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Prosecuting disability hate crime
AU - Piggott, Linda
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Public acts of hostility and harassment against disabled people are characterised in law as hate crime when they are accompanied by evidence of prejudice. But, rather than protecting and deterring, the offence of hate crime invites and depends on the identification of a person as different, thereby reinforcing culturally embedded ideas of normality and disability. As a result the law is based on disablist assumptions of disabled people as inferior. The law is also based on ideas and practice that presume ablebodiedness and thereby risks marginalising disabled people with whom the criminal justice system can find it difficult to work.
AB - Public acts of hostility and harassment against disabled people are characterised in law as hate crime when they are accompanied by evidence of prejudice. But, rather than protecting and deterring, the offence of hate crime invites and depends on the identification of a person as different, thereby reinforcing culturally embedded ideas of normality and disability. As a result the law is based on disablist assumptions of disabled people as inferior. The law is also based on ideas and practice that presume ablebodiedness and thereby risks marginalising disabled people with whom the criminal justice system can find it difficult to work.
U2 - 10.3351/ppp.0005.0001.0003
DO - 10.3351/ppp.0005.0001.0003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
JO - People, Place and Policy Online
JF - People, Place and Policy Online
IS - 1
M1 - 3
ER -