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‘I may yet be left with no choice but to seek an ending to my torment’: disability and intersectionalities of hate crime

MacDonald, S.J; Donovan, C; Clayton, J

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S.J MacDonald

J Clayton



Abstract

This article contributes to the growing literature concerning Disability Hate Studies. The study employs the concept of intersectionality and examines experiences of hate crimes recorded as racist or homophobic but where the victims/survivors also have a disability or mental health condition. The data was derived from 33 case-studies. Although very few hate incidents/crimes were conceptualised as disablist, disability played a significant role in the experiences of victims/survivors. The article proposes that criminal justice agencies should move away from understanding hate crime as a singular interaction to conceptualising the possibility that this can become a harmful hate relationship that progresses overtime.

Citation

MacDonald, S., Donovan, C., & Clayton, J. (2023). ‘I may yet be left with no choice but to seek an ending to my torment’: disability and intersectionalities of hate crime. Disability and Society, 38(1), 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.1928480

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 6, 2021
Online Publication Date May 26, 2021
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date May 13, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Disability and Society
Print ISSN 0968-7599
Electronic ISSN 1360-0508
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 38
Issue 1
Pages 127-147
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.1928480

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Copyright Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Disability & Society. MacDonald, S.J, Donovan, C & Clayton, J (2021). ‘I may yet be left with no choice but to seek an ending to my torment’ disability and intersectionalities of hate crime. Disability and Society. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.




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