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  • Disability, Criminal Justice and Law

    Reconsidering Court Diversion

    by Linda Steele ...
    Series series Social Justice
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Normality and Disability

    Intersections among Norms, Law, and Culture

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Linda Steele, Jessica Robyn Cadwallader ...
    Hotly contested, normality remains a powerful, complex category in contemporary law and culture. What is little realized are the ways in which disability underpins and shapes the operation of norms and the power dynamics of normalization.This pioneering collection explores the place of law in political, social, scientific and biomedical developments relating to disability and other categories of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Sites of Conscience

    Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization

    Edited by Elisabeth Punzi, Linda Steele ...
    Series series Disability Culture and Politics
    Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization – the closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community – has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished. Sites of Conscience explores use of the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Legacies of Institutionalisation

    Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community

    Edited by Dr Claire Spivakovsky, Dr Linda Steele, Professor Penelope Weller ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated ... Read more

    $38.99 USD