Disabling Criminal Justice
The Governance of Autistic Adult Defendants in the English Criminal Justice System
$86.99
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2025
Summary
This book considers the governance of autistic defendants and offenders in the UK courts.
Utilising the social model of disability, it considers the dominant strategies of governance, including ‘vulnerability’, which the author argues obscures the rights of disabled people in the criminal justice system. In doing so it sheds light on how this group should be governed.
Drawing on rigorously-researched case studies of autistic adult defendants through the court …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509956982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509956980 |
| Author: | Marie Tidball |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Hart Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 448g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 152mm x 232mm |
Marie Tidball
Marie Tidball is Founding Director and Coordinator of the Oxford University Disability Law and Policy Project, UK. She is also Research Associate at Wadham College and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, UK.
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