Disability Injustice (Hardcover)

Kelly Fritsch

ISBN 10: 0774867124 / ISBN 13: 9780774867122

Editore: University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2022

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Hardcover. Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provocative collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of disability, we can and should challenge the practices of crime control and the processes of criminalization. In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Disability Injustice (Hardcover)
• Editore: University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0774867124
• ISBN 13: 9780774867122
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

<b>An exploration of disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.</b><br><br> Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous&#8212;even deadly&#8212;for disabled people. <i>Disability Injustice</i> brings together original work from a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system. The contributors confront topics such as eugenics and crime control, the pathologizing of difference as deviance, processes of criminalization, and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, <i>Disability Injustice</i> examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement. This collection highlights how, with a deeper understanding of disability, we can and should challenge the practices of crime control and the processes of criminalization.<br> &#160;

Informazioni sull?autore

<b>Kelly Fritsch</b> is assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University. She is the coauthor of <i>We Move Together</i>. <b>Jeffrey Monaghan</b> is associate professor in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University. He is the coauthor of <i>Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security States</i>. <b>Emily van der Meulen</b> is professor in the department of criminology at Ryerson University. She is a coeditor of <i>Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance</i>.<br> &#160;