What is disablist hate crime?

In this video, Prof Nicole Asquith discusses disablist hate crime in the Australian context. Nicole is Associate Professor of Policing & Criminal Justice, Co-Director of the Vulnerability, Resilience and Policing Research Consortium, and Senior Research Fellow with the Tasmania Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. Nicole is also on the Executive of the Australian Hate Crime Network, and a member of Sexualities and Genders Research, Translation Health Research Institute, and the Clinical and Health Psychology Research Initiative at Western Sydney University. She has worked with policing organisations for over 20 years to develop better victim services, and policing processes for vulnerable victims and offenders. In addition to her work with Australian and UK policing services on hate crime, she is currently working with criminal justice stakeholders on strategies for reducing victim and offender vulnerability, and rural policing.