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Staying positive: the criminal justice system and learning disabilities: easy read information for people with learning disabilities and learning difficulties
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This booklet, which is presented in an easy to read form, is intended to help people with a learning disability who find themselves in contact with the criminal justice system to get good support and to help them understand their rights. The booklet provides information about the recent publication ‘Positive Practise, Positive Outcomes 2011’, which is a handbook for staff in the criminal justice system about offenders with a learning disability or learning difficulty. The booklet has separate sections for each stage of the criminal justice system, that is police, court, prison and probation. A list of websites and companies with helpful information is also provided.
Listen without prejudice
- Author:
- HEDDELL Fred
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.8.97, 1997, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In the first of a series of special features, the author explains the problems faced by people with learning difficulties in the justice system, beginning at the scene of the crime.
Recent research on offenders with learning disabilities
- Author:
- HAYES Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 1(3), July 1996, pp.7-15.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
People with learning disabilities are typically over-represented in Western criminal justice systems. They are vulnerable during police questioning, and may not comprehend their right to silence; they may confess, or acquiesce to the police version of events. They may have a long history of challenging behaviour which has never been appropriately addressed until the behaviour brings them into contact with the criminal justice system. Argues that it is important for service providers to have a working knowledge of the criminal justice system, and a clear idea of their role in relation to the client, especially during police interviews.
Vulnerability in custody: perceptions and practices of police officers and criminal justice professionals in meeting the communication needs of offenders with learning disabilities and learning difficulties
- Authors:
- PARSONS Sarah, SHERWOOD Gina
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 31(4), 2016, pp.553-572.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Information provision and communication within the Criminal Justice System can be highly problematic for young people and adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Paper-based communication is common, and is mandated for the provision of rights and entitlements in custody, but such communication can be poorly understood, potentially leading to miscarriages of justice. This article uses the piloting of a more accessible version of the rights and entitlements notice in custody to explore the communication practices with vulnerable detained persons from the perspectives of professionals within the Criminal Justice System. As a legally mandated text in a context heavily imbued with organisational power, the rights and entitlements notice in custody has sociological significance as a lens through which organisational practices, and understandings, can be examined. The stressful, fast-paced and transitional context of custody shapes communication and interaction in ways that are challenging for the detained person and also the professionals who support them. (Publisher abstract)
Partnership pays off
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.2.01, 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A social worker talks to the author about the approach she took when working with a profoundly deaf young women with learning difficulties who was having a baby with a schedule one offender who also abused alcohol.
Men with intellectual disabilities who sexually abuse: a review of the literature
- Authors:
- THOMPSON David, BROWN Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 1997, pp.140-158.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Trailing behind the recent acknowledgement of the high incidence of sexual abuse amongst people with intellectual disabilities is a recognition of men with intellectual disabilities as perpetrators of sexual abuse. This article reviews the North American, Australian and British literature published in this area. It demonstrates that both theoretical understandings and clinical interventions with men with intellectual disabilities are often discordant with wider perspectives of work with sexual abusers. The effect of this is shown to be common discriminatory practice received by men with intellectual disabilities which at times shows poor regard for their rights.