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TY - JOUR
T1 - Between hate and vulnerability
T2 - unpacking the British criminal justice system’s construction of disablist hate crime
AU - Roulstone, Alan
AU - Thomas, Pam
AU - Balderston, Susan
PY - 2011/5
Y1 - 2011/5
N2 - Hate crime is now an established term in the fields of racist and religious attacks and is acknowledged in the cultural proscription against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women. Disabled people, as so often is the case, are late in being afforded statutory recognition in hate crime. This can be explained in terms of wider constructions of disability and more pernicious and muddled constructions of disabled people as categorically ‘Vulnerable’. This construction has arguably weakened the impetus to introducing hate crime provisions and legal justice for disabled people. There is now ample evidence of hate crime being evident and pervasive in the lives of many disabled people. By drawing on two English studies of disablist hate crime, this paper draws out key aspects of hate crime policy and practice, and challenges the constructions of disability, hate and vulnerability currently operating.
AB - Hate crime is now an established term in the fields of racist and religious attacks and is acknowledged in the cultural proscription against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender men and women. Disabled people, as so often is the case, are late in being afforded statutory recognition in hate crime. This can be explained in terms of wider constructions of disability and more pernicious and muddled constructions of disabled people as categorically ‘Vulnerable’. This construction has arguably weakened the impetus to introducing hate crime provisions and legal justice for disabled people. There is now ample evidence of hate crime being evident and pervasive in the lives of many disabled people. By drawing on two English studies of disablist hate crime, this paper draws out key aspects of hate crime policy and practice, and challenges the constructions of disability, hate and vulnerability currently operating.
KW - disabled people
KW - hate crime
KW - legal constructs
KW - policy improvement
U2 - 10.1080/09687599.2011.560418
DO - 10.1080/09687599.2011.560418
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 351
EP - 364
JO - Disability and Society
JF - Disability and Society
SN - 0968-7599
IS - 3
ER -