Not my topic, but not long ago I did pick up a book for a 1GB in a sale from
a bookshop next to the Royal Courts of Justice entitled - Tenant, Edward,
E. (2001) The future of the diminished responsibility defence to murder.
Barry Rose Law Publishers Chichester.
That's a mainstream law book written from a legal not a disability studies
perspective
I would think there is a fair amount of material dealing with mental health,
intellectual disability and the law, and a few mainstream texts would be as
advisable as anything from critical perspectives as one needs to know what
it is one is critiquing.
I could suggest a lot of topics but no readings spring to mind as yet,
though I would guess there is autobiographic material out there dealing with
individual disabled peoples experience within the criminal justice system,
and there marginalisation by it, for instance various reports of police
failure to act in harassment and hate crime cases.
I wish you well in this endeavour it sounds a fascinating course. Quite
apart from medical and social models of disability there is a legal one,
that not only obeys it's own set of bizarre rules, not only interfaces with
the social model in the construction of disability, but also constructs it's
own legal model, often in Canutian terms contrary to nature. Disability in
itself being essentially a legal term. There is a whole world out there of
presumed incompetence from historical times to the current mental capacity
act to be mined as well.
Larry
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