Preview

PDF (Journal article 10.1177/1362480619877697 (author final)) 273Kb

The position of disabled people within criminal justice frameworks and scholarship is one of ambivalence, which leaves disabled people in the simultaneous and contradictory position of centrality and marginality. While disabled people are over-represented within the criminal justice system (as offenders, victims, and witnesses), their voices are often marginalized or silenced. So too, while disabled people are over-represented within the criminal justice system, they remain under-explored in policy, practice, research, and scholarship. Aligning with the shift to queer and queering criminology, in this article we deploy the lens of ‘crip’ and ‘cripping’ to facilitate a more critical engagement with the concerns of disabled people, along with the mechanisms by which abledness informs criminal justice encounters.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	disability, ableism, disablism, justice
Research Division:	Human Society
Research Group:	Criminology
Research Field:	Causes and prevention of crime
Objective Division:	Law, Politics and Community Services
Objective Group:	Community services
Objective Field:	Ability and disability
ID Code:	140498
Year Published:	2019
Deposited By:	School of Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2020-08-24
Last Modified:	2021-03-11
Downloads:	2 View Download Statistics