Dona wrote about the 'Crime victims with disabilities act.' I'm currently
writing a paper about mental illness, disability and institutionalisation.
One of the 'cases' I look at involves a disabled person who, because of
widespread 'system failure' ended up committing a serious crime for which
he was institutionalised in a secure mental hospital for life. If Dona's
post sparks a discussion, I'd like to see some parallel discussion of the
concepts of 'crime victim,' because in this case, all the press (including
the disability press) focused on the murder 'victim' and 'blamed' the
disabled man. In fact the disability press were worse in this respect.
Comments please
Best
Mairian
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>Many of you have followed the progress of U.S. Senate Bill 1976 "Crime
>Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act" (to see the full Bill, go to
>http://thomas.loc.gov and search the 105th Congress, then SB 1976). This
>Bill, signed by President Clinton in 1998, mandated the first-ever national
>study of crime victims with disabilities, and originally asked for $850,000
>to complete the research (and other work mandated by the Bill)....
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