Disability hate crime and targeted violence and hostility: A mental health and discrimination perspective

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Declaration of interest:

LS and JP are employed by RADAR – the Disabled People's Network where JP is Public Affairs (Hate Crime) Officer. SC, EB and GT receive funding to conduct research on stigma and discrimination. This article presents independent research commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Programme Grants for Applied Research scheme (RP-PG-0606-1053). GT is also funded through a NIHR Specialist Mental Health Biomedical Research Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.