This sobering report – Crimes Against People with Disabilities, 2007 – presents us with the depressing statistics that the disabled are victimized at a higher rate than the rest of the population. This is the first time that such statistics have been garnered. The Office for Victims of Crime has a separate section on Disabled Victims and the National Criminal Justice Reference Service also has valuable publications and links. You can read more about this report from CNN and NPR. For the British perspective on what they call disability hate crimes, read Hate Crime and Disabled People, this article from the Telegraph, the BBC’s Fears Over Disability Hate Crime, and the Crown Prosecution Services’ Policy for Prosecuting Cases of Disability Hate Crime.
