"Steele's Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion is a must read for activist-scholars and anyone concerned with disability, criminalization, and interlocking oppression. Using Puar's theoretical work on debility/capacity alongside Foucault, disability carceral scholarship, trans and queer abolitionism, settler colonial studies, and beyond, Steele stages a skilful conversation between these varied provocations, which guides her critique of policy and practice surrounding actual experiences of ...
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"Steele's Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion is a must read for activist-scholars and anyone concerned with disability, criminalization, and interlocking oppression. Using Puar's theoretical work on debility/capacity alongside Foucault, disability carceral scholarship, trans and queer abolitionism, settler colonial studies, and beyond, Steele stages a skilful conversation between these varied provocations, which guides her critique of policy and practice surrounding actual experiences of court diversion and the implications for struggles for social justice. Steele shows how a seemingly humanitarian measure is complexly implicated in the disproportionate criminalization and oppression of disabled, Indigenous, racialized, and poor peoples." Chris Chapman, Associate Professor of Social Work at York University Canada; editor of Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada and author of A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working (2019) "Disability, Criminal Justice and the Law is a tour de force. Providing a much needed critical account of court diversion, Steele analyses the coercive and 'net widening' effects of a process that is often unthinkingly regarded as beneficial. Based on novel empirical research, and employing interdisciplinary research methods, Steele documents the violence and injustice entailed in reliance on diversion, drawing connections between law, disability and settler colonialism, and exposing the ways in which law debilitates criminalised disabled people through diversion. This book deserves to be read widely - not just by criminal justice and critical disability studies students and scholars, but also by legal professionals and justice advocates working in the field of law and disability. Steele's powerful assessment demands an urgent rethinking of the value and effects of court diversion. " Arlie Loughnan, Professor of Law at University of Sydney; author of Manifest Madness: Mental Capacity in the Criminal Law (2012) and Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility (2020) "Linda Steele's book offers a much needed disruption to the common assumption that people with disability are over-represented in criminal justice systems due to a lack of treatment and support in the community post their deinstitutionalisation. Steele's book not only shows us how law plays a particularly pernicious role in debilitating criminalised disabled people, but also how this role of law can expand and mask settler colonial control and violence of Indigenous and First Nations people and other racialised minorities. Grounded in a careful analysis of court diversion, this book further invites us to explore the bifurcation of the political category of disability, showing us the edges of the chasm that is forming between rights-bearing disabled citizens and their debilitated, corrosively-disadvantaged counterparts. Disability, Criminal Justice and Law is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the multiple, complex and often contradictory relationships between people with disability and law." Claire Spivakovsky, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Melbourne; author of Racialized Correctional Governance (2013) and editor of Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society (2018) "Linda Steele's Disability, Criminal Justice, and Law does exactly what its understated subtitle says it does; namely, reconsider court diversion schemes for criminalised disabled people. But in methodically and forensically (in all senses) reconsidering a particular aspect of the criminal justice system, this wonderful book opens up a series of powerful and systemic questions about disability, identity, criminal responsibility and social justice in contemporary settler coloni
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