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Title Disability, hate crime and violence / edited by Alan Roulstone and Hannah Mason-Bish
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge advances in disability studies
Routledge advances in disability studies.
Contents Introduction : disability, hate crime and violence / Alan Roulstone and Hannah Mason-Bish -- Conceptualising disablist hate crime. Conceptual issues in the construction of disability hate crime / Hannah Mason-Bish ; Vulnerable to misinterpretation : disabled people, 'vulnerability', hate crime and the fight for legal recognition / Alan Roustone and Kim Sadique ; The wrong war? Critically examining the 'fight against disability hate crime' / Joanna Perry ; Disability and the continuum of violence / Andrea Hollomotz ; Media reporting and disability hate crime / Katharine Quarmby ; International perspectives on disability hate crime / Mark Sherry -- Responses to disablist hate crime. Disablist violence in the US : unacknowledged hate crime / Jack Levin ; Disabled women and domestic violence : increased risk but fewer services / Ravi K. Thiara and Gill Hague ; Disability hate crime : a campaign perspective / Anne Novis ; A case for engagement : the role of the UK Disability Hate Crime Network (DHCN) / Stephen Brookes ; Hate crime or mate crime? Disablist hostility, contempt and ridicule / Pam Thomas ; Making disablist hate crime visible : addressing the challenges of improving reporting / Chih Hoong Sin ; Civil courage, civil societies and good samaritans : a response to disablist hate crime / Toby Brandon and Sarah Keyes ; After disablist hate crime : which interventions really work to resist victimhood and build resilience with surviviors / Susie Balderston
Summary This text provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of disability, hate crime and violence, exploring its emergence on the policy agenda. Engaging with debates in criminology, disability and violence studies, it looks at violences in their myriad forms as they are seen to impact upon disabled people's lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject People with disabilities -- Crimes against -- Great Britain
People with disabilities -- Violence against -- Great Britain
Hate crimes -- Great Britain
People with disabilities -- Abuse of -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
Hate crimes
People with disabilities -- Crimes against
Hate crime
Gewalt
Behinderter Mensch
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Roulstone, Alan, 1962-
Mason-Bish, Hannah
ISBN 9780203104460
0203104463
9781136249952
1136249958
1283587084
9781283587082