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Disabled people’s experiences of targeted violence and hostility
Chih Hoong Sin, Annie Hedges, Chloe Cook, Nina Mguni and Natasha Comber Office for Public Management

Disabled people’s experiences of targeted violence and hostility

Chih Hoong Sin, Annie Hedges, Chloe Cook, Nina Mguni and Natasha Comber

Office for Public Management

© Equality and Human Rights Commission 2009 First published Spring 2009 ISBN 978 1 84206 123 7

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Contents
List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Executive summary 1. Introduction 1.1 2. Aims and objectives of the research

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Methodology 2.1 Literature review 2.2 Stakeholder interviews 2.3 Interviews with disabled people 2.4 Reading this report The wider policy and legislative context, and evidence base 3.1 Legislative...