Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion Steele Linda
Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion Steele Linda Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law's…
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Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion Steele Linda
Through theoretical and empirical examination of legal frameworks for court diversion, this book interrogates law's complicity in the debilitation of disabled people.In a post-deinstitutionalisation era, diverting disabled people from criminal justice systems and into mental health and disability services is considered therapeutic, humane and socially just. It can facilitate criminalisation, control and punishment of disabled people who are not sentenced and might not even be convicted of any criminal offences. Yet, by drawing on Foucauldian theory of biopolitics, critical legal and political theory and critical disability theory, Steele argues that court diversion continues disability oppression.
On a broader level, court diversion contributes to the longstanding phenomenon of disability-specific coercive intervention, legitimates prison incarceration and shores up the
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