Getting Away with Murder is the title of a new 50-page report into hate crime against Disabled people. Published by Disability Now, Scope and the UK’s Disabled People’s Council it highlights the wide gap between official data and the results of self-reporting surveys by organisations of Disabled people; the disparity between sentencing for disability hate crime and other forms of hate crime; and the language used to describe Disabled people (“vulnerable”) and the crimes against them (“bullying”).
It makes several recommendations including research into why Disabled people are often seen as “less worthy” and crucially a discussion about how to best prevent hate crime.
The above article is from the September edition of the Newsletter of the Council of Disabled People Warwickshire and Coventry.
View this and previous newsletters at :
http://www.cdp.org.uk/news/newsletter/default_newsletter.htm
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