Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion

by Linda Steele

Book Overview

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. Yet, by drawing on Foucauldian theory of biopolitics, critical legal and political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367498073
• ISBN13: 9780367498078
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"