Dear All, and especially Jan who seems to have a similar problem.
You may remember my rant about a changed title on something I wrote last
week. I would like to thank all who replied at that time.
Now, there are some things I would like to run
past members (but feel free to tell me to get lost also) related to
problems of theoretical background and definition for my study.
I have stumbled upon the premise, using different definitions of
disability, that 'All Prisoners are Disabled, but some are more
Disabled than Others'. Without going too deeply into the reasoning behind
this, just consider that by the nature of their environment, all prisoners
are mobility impaired, and they all suffer deprivations (Pains of
Imprisonment), but some prisoners who also have physical or sensory
impairment are further disabled by an environment designed by and for
able bodied people.
As experts in the disability field, do you feel it would be
relevant for me to continue in this vein of thought? I ask, because
although I have good supervision on the prisons and criminology side here
at Bangor, nobody seems to know much about theories of disability so I need
someone to bounce ideas off!
I have written a few short papers on the topic of the experience of
disability in prison, but mainly policy/practice based. I really feel that
I should be developing my thesis around disability based issues as well as
penal or criminological ones, but don't know where to go from here! thanks
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Jenny Parry
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