Justice for people with disabilities.A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Bench Strength," about mental illness, in the December 2006 issue.SantiagoDirectorJuanDirectorM.DirectorEBSCO_AspBehavioral Healthcare
As an outgrowth of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, the situation for some people with disabilities in the United States has continued to improve since the 1970s. However, in much of the world, individuals and families affected by disability continue to face injustice in the ...
Access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme for People with Intellectual Disabilities Who are Involved in the Criminal Justice System Eileen Baldry reports on initial findings from a research project examining the reasons why people with mental health and/or cognitive disability get trapp... K ...
The Current State of Health Care for People with Disabilities The National Council on Disabilities (NCD) undertook this study in 2007 to focus the nation's attention on the health care disparities experienced by peopl... ML Breslin,S Yee,T Zoanni,... - 《National Council on Disability》 被...
Searching for the absent citizen : negotiating citizenship, human rights and social justice for people wih disabilities in international and domestic legis... This thesis was digitised for the purposes of Document Delivery. It is not available on open access and access is restricted. The item may...
Examples are drawn from Australia to argue that a commitment to human rights is just one part of the steps needed to ameliorate the multiple discrimination and human rights violations that people with disabilities face. Nancy Fraser's theory of justice is utilized to illustrate how concurrent with...
(2014): 401-422; Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006); Anita Silvers and Leslie Pickering Francis, "Thinking about the Good: Reconfiguring Liberal Metaphysics (or not) for People with Cognitive Disabilities...
And it includes the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandates that election officials ensure people with disabilities have the full and equal opportunity to vote. “The Department of Justice has a nearly 60-year history of addressing Election Day issues to safeguard the voting rights...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how substances misuse impacts on exposure to the criminal justice system for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Design/methodology/approach – An electronic case-register of mental health patients was used to examine the clinical records of...
No one should spend their life behind bars for committing minor crimes, even if they commit several of them. Invigorate and expand the compassionate release process so that people with disabilities, the sick and elderly are transitioned out of incarceration whenever possible. Expand the use of ...