Report: Prevalence of crime towards people with disabilities

A report examined the self-reported rates of exposure of people with disabilities to violent crime, hate crime, and disablist hate crime, drawing on data from the Life Opportunities Survey.

It said that: adults with disabilities were significantly more likely to have been exposed over the previous 12 months to violent crime and hate crime than their non-disabled peers; and the differential risk of exposure to violent crime or hate crime was particularly high among those with mental health problems (and, in the case of hate crime, was also high among those people with cognitive impairments).

It said that these effects were strongly moderated by poverty status, with no increased differential risk of exposure among more wealthy respondents with disabilities.