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Autonomy and social policy: rights, mental handicap and community care
- Author:
- STAINTON Timothy
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 233p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Research study considering the question of autonomy and its relation to rights with reference to people with disabilities in general and specifically in relation to people with learning difficulties in western liberal democracies.
'An Ordinary Sexual Life?': a review of the normalisation principle as it applies to the sexual options of people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BROWN Hilary
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(2), 1994, pp.123-144.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explains why the normalisation principle has had so little effect on the sexual options open to people with learning disabilities. It analyses discourses about services and about sexuality and suggests that one implicit role of services is the regulation of sexuality and the creation of sexual boundaries. The paper questions whether there are homogeneous sexual values, and challenges the assumption that sexuality is 'natural' arguing that this view is simplistic and hides the extent to which rules about sexual behaviour are applied on the basis of social inequalities. Thus, the paper explores assumptions about sexuality, normality and integration and reinstates all three concepts to a problematical status. It questions the ways in which people with learning disabilities are really free to be 'sexual' and the penalties they face in breaking out of the roles which have been prescribed for them.
Claims, counter claims - and a weakened bill
- Author:
- STEELE Deborah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(2), October 1994, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that the proposed Disability Bill is not going to make much of an impact on the unemployment of learning disabled people.
Disability, discrimination and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- CHAPPELL Anne Louise
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 42, Winter 1994, pp.19-33.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Examines the experience of disabled people in the British criminal justice system, paying particular attention to people with learning difficulties. Two aspects of the criminal justice system are discussed. The first concerns the nature of specific legislation which impacts on disabled people. The second refers to recent cases where there has been a miscarriage of justice. Several of the individuals wrongly convicted in such cases have had learning difficulties. Argues that disabled people experience discrimination within the criminal justice system. Tackling this discrimination must form part of the agenda for civil rights for disabled people.
Black people first conference report: June 1st and 2nd 1993
- Author:
- BLACK PEOPLE FIRST
- Publisher:
- People First
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 25p.,illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report from a conference organised by People First, an organisation run by and for people with learning difficulties. Presents the views of black people with learning difficulties on such issues as racism, services, and education.
Sex, laws and red tape: Scots law, personal relationships and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- McKAY Colin
- Publisher:
- ENABLE
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Guide to the law as it affects the personal relationships of people with learning difficulties in Scotland. Covers issues of consent and care, privacy, marriage, pregnancy, parenting, individual and parental rights, and areas of concern such as sexual abuse.
Legal issues arising from the care, control and safety of children with learning disabilities who also present severe challenging behaviour: an initiative of the Learning Disabilities Committee of the Mental Health Foundation
- Author:
- LYON Christina
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 215p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research report providing detailed guidance on the impact of criminal, civil and public law provisions in England and Wales on the care and the monitoring of the residential care of children with learning difficulties who exhibit challenging behaviour. Looks in particular at the Children Act 1989 and what it will and will not allow in respect of control and restraint practice. Also presents extracts from the policies of selected SSDs on control and restraint.