{"product_id":"disability-injustice-9780774867139","title":"Disability Injustice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous  even deadly  for disabled people. \u003cem\u003eDisability Injustice\u003c\/em\u003e brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, \u003cem\u003eDisability Injustice \u003c\/em\u003eexamines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures \/ \u003cem\u003eKelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der Meulen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 \/ \u003cem\u003eTheresa L. Raymond\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization \/ \u003cem\u003eAlexander McClelland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability \/ \u003cem\u003eLindsay Blewett\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control \/ \u003cem\u003eGuillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmmanuelle Bernheim\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing \/ \u003cem\u003eAlok Mukherjee\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec \/ \u003cem\u003eSue-Ann MacDonald, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eVéronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls \/ \u003cem\u003eRichard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons \/ \u003cem\u003eMegan Rusciano\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform \/ \u003cem\u003eRiver Rossi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 The Politics of Death-Making\/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading \/ \u003cem\u003eRavi Malhotra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics \/ \u003cem\u003eAbigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures \/ \u003cem\u003eLiat Ben-Moshe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404950413655,"sku":"9780774867139","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774867139.jpg?v=1730488163","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disability-injustice-9780774867139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}