About the Book
Offering an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex relationships between disability, crime, and victimisation, this comprehensive handbook gathers insights from leading scholars across diverse fields, including disability studies, criminology, history, sociology, forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, and the neurosciences, who have conducted extensive research in these areas.
Adopting a global perspective, this volume applies various theoretical frameworks to explore the experiences of diverse disabled communities, including those with mental health issues, neurodiversity, sensory impairments, and physical disabilities, as they interact with the criminal justice system. It also presents contemporary perspectives on crime and victimisation, encompassing biomedical, biopsychosocial, structural, cultural, and realist approaches, and in doing so it delves into critical issues, including marginalisation, discrimination, exclusion, and intersectionality, while also addressing the inherent disablism and ableism apparent in the justice system. Divided into five comprehensive sections – Introduction to the Routledge International Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice; Histories of Disability and Crime; Biomedical and Biopsychosocial Criminology; Structural Disability Criminology; Cultural Disability Criminology; and Realist Disability Criminology, this groundbreaking publication covers a wide range of topics. These include disability theory, penal populations, community interventions, policing, probation, courts, prisons, hate crimes, interpersonal victimisation, domestic violence, sex work, marginalisation, deviance, media representations, and systemic ableism/disablism within the justice system.
The Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice stands as a definitive guide to disability, crime, and justice and will be of value to all those with an interest in this area.
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Table of Contents:
Section 1: Introduction to the Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime, and Justice
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Intersections between Disability Studies and Criminological Theory: Time for a paradigm shift?
Section 2: Histories of Disability and Crime
Chapter 3: Cesare Lombroso and the Body in the Morgue
Chapter 4: Unfit for Labour: Histories of disability and ill-health in the Victorian prison
Chapter 5: The Rise of the Victorian Asylum
Chapter 6: The Road to Broadmoor: mental capacity and high security
Chapter 7: Eugenics, Disability and Crime
Chapter 8: ‘A Definitive Neurasthenic Temperament?’: The Irish Great War Veteran and the Politicisation of Psychiatry
Section 3: Biomedical and Biopsychosocial Criminology
Chapter 9: Neurocriminology: Using knowledge of brain structure and function to explain crime, substance abuse, and offending
Chapter 10: Online Terrorism Offenders with ADHD: In what ways can ADHD create contextual vulnerabilities and risk?
Chapter 11: Neurocriminology, ADHD and intimate partner violence
Chapter 12: Biopsychological Approaches to Impairment and Disability, Criminal Behaviour, and Vulnerability: Head Trauma, Imprisonment, and Rehabilitation
Chapter 13: Therapeutic Relationships in Personality Disorder
Chapter 14: Autism and Police Interviewing: An Individual, Interpersonal, and Environmental Model of Vulnerability
Section 4: Structural Disability Criminology
Chapter 15: Disability, Limits of the Law and Pathways to Prison
Chapter 16: Reporting Disability Hate
Chapter 17: Disability Hate Crimes and Austerity: “The government hates disabled people”
Chapter 18: Criminal justice responses to learning disabled and autistic victims of sexual violence
Chapter 19: ‘It’d be the last resort you would ring the Guards’: disabled people’s perceptions and experiences of the police in the search for safe community spaces
Chapter 20: Neurodiversity in the Courtroom
Chapter 21: Transforming Care: The Role of Institutional Violence
Chapter 22: Disabled people’s lived experiences of access to justice in the criminal justice system in the UK
Section 5: Cultural Disability Criminology
Chapter 23: Cripping Criminal In/Justice Practices
Chapter 24: Landscapes of disability hate
Chapter 25: Disability Hate Speech and Everyday Life
Chapter 26: Experiences of d/Deaf individuals in the criminal justice system
Chapter 27: ‘He was sadly a vulnerable young man with learning difficulties’: How the tabloid press represents and labels crimes against disabled people.
Chapter 28: Revisiting and reframing the controversial relationship between mental health and violence: Racial disproportionality and disparities of care
Chapter 29: “I'll Give You Justice”: Why the Use of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Is the Best Way to Eradicate Sanism in the Law.
Chapter 30: Beyond Prison Reform: Ableism & Abolition
Section 6: Realist Disability Criminology
Chapter 31: A critical realist analysis of communication and engagement barriers for ‘vulnerable’ suspects in the police station
Chapter 32: People with Multiple Sclerosis’s Experiences of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Chapter 33: Disablist Hate Relationships: The Impact of ‘Low-Level’ Forms of Community Violence on Disabled People’s Quality-of-Life
Chapter 34: Digital technology and violence against girls and women with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: Risks and resources for resilience
Chapter 35: Autism, interpersonal violence, and hate crime
Chapter 36: Disability and Child Violence
Chapter 37: Disability Awareness: How Do Organisational Learning Theory and Experiential Learning Theory Support Law Enforcement Officers’ Interactions with People with Disabilities?
Chapter 38: Probation and Ageing
Section 7: Conclusion
Chapter 39: Towards a Criminology of Disability
About the Author :
Stephen J. Macdonald is Professor of Criminology and Disability Studies at Durham University. His research focuses on the intersections of disability, criminology, and adult services, emphasising violence against disabled populations, victimisation, criminality, and desistance. He also explores the interplay between disability and criminological theory.
Donna Peacock is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Head of Social Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland. Her research focuses on 'vulnerability' in police custody settings and the intersections between the disciplines of disability studies and criminology.
