Download or read book Disability Incarcerated written by L. Ben-Moshe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability Incarcerated gathers thirteen contributions from an impressive array of fields. Taken together, these essays assert that a complex understanding of disability is crucial to an understanding of incarceration, and that we must expand what has come to be called 'incarceration.' The chapters in this book examine a host of sites, such as prisons, institutions for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, special education, detention centers, and group homes; explore why various sites should be understood as incarceration; and discuss the causes and effects of these sites historically and currently. This volume includes a preface by Professor Angela Y. Davis and an afterword by Professor Robert McRuer.
Download or read book Disablement and the Law in the United States and Canada written by Wayne Thomas Oakes and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability Discrimination Law in the United States Australia and Canada written by Gerard Quinn and published by Dublin : Oak Tree Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study surveys the laws affecting individuals with disabilities in three jurisdictions that have recently enacted significant new legislation: the United States, Australia and Canada. The authors describe the underlying philosophy of the legislation in each country and provide an accurate portrayal of the content, enforcement mechanisms and effectiveness of each.
Download or read book Disability Injustice written by Kelly Fritsch and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ableism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous – even deadly – for disabled people. Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and alternatives to confinement. The contributors confront challenging topics such as the pathologizing of difference as deviance; eugenics and crime control; criminalization based on biased physical and mental health approaches; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting discrimination. This provocative collection highlights how, with deeper understanding of disability, we can challenge the practices of crime control and the processes of criminalization.
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law written by Marcia H. Rioux and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.
Download or read book Disability Human Rights and Information Technology written by Jonathan Lazar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit in several human rights instruments and is featured prominently in Articles 9 and 21 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The right to access ICT, moreover, invokes complementary civil and human rights issues: freedom of expression; freedom to information; political participation; civic engagement; inclusive education; the right to access the highest level of scientific and technological information; and participation in social and cultural opportunities. Despite the ready availability and minimal cost of technology to enable people with disabilities to access ICT on an equal footing as consumers without disabilities, prevailing practice around the globe continues to result in their exclusion. Questions and complexities may also arise where technologies advance ahead of existing laws and policies, where legal norms are established but not yet implemented, or where legal rights are defined but clear technical implementations are not yet established. At the intersection of human-computer interaction, disability rights, civil rights, human rights, international development, and public policy, the volume's contributors examine crucial yet underexplored areas, including technology access for people with cognitive impairments, public financing of information technology, accessibility and e-learning, and human rights and social inclusion. Contributors: John Bertot, Peter Blanck, Judy Brewer, Joyram Chakraborty, Tim Elder, Jim Fruchterman, G. Anthony Giannoumis, Paul Jaeger, Sanjay Jain, Deborah Kaplan, Raja Kushalnagar, Jonathan Lazar, Fredric I. Lederer, Janet E. Lord, Ravi Malhotra, Jorge Manhique, Mirriam Nthenge, Joyojeet Pal, Megan A. Rusciano, David Sloan, Michael Ashley Stein, Brian Wentz, Marco Winckler, Mary J. Ziegler.
Download or read book Disability Rights Law and Policy written by Mary Lou Breslin and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Papers conceived and commissioned by the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)"--T.p.
Download or read book Disabling Barriers written by Ravi Malhotra and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement. Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.
Download or read book Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives written by Ravi Malhotra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger’s work analyzing the narratives of people with physical and learning disabilities, this book examines the life stories of twelve physically disabled Canadian adults through the prism of the social model of disablement. Using a grounded theory approach and with extensive reporting of the thoughts of the participants in their own words, the book uses narratives to explore whether an advocacy identity helps or hinders dealings with systemic barriers for disabled people in education, employment, and transportation. The book underscores how both physical and attitudinal barriers by educators, employers and service providers complicate the lives of disabled people. The book places a particular focus on the importance of political economy and the changes to the labour market for understanding the marginalization and oppression of people with disabilities. By melding socio-legal approaches with insights from feminist, critical race, and queer legal theory, Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe ask if we need to reconsider the social model of disablement, and proposes avenues for inclusive legal reform.
Download or read book This Ability written by Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ability provides an analysis of the issues relating to inequality for those with disabilities at both the national and international level. The work examines the primary role of legislation and its effect on court process, looking at the impact of NAFTA and the EU in an historical and compelling analysis of discrimination.
Download or read book Mental Disability and the Law in Canada written by Gerald B. Robertson and published by Thomson Carswell. This book was released on 1987 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guardianship of the person :
Download or read book Perspectives on Disability Discrimination Accommodations and Law written by Wayne Thomas Oakes and published by New York : LFB Scholarly Pub.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Workmen s Compensation Legislation of the United States and Canada written by Lindley Daniel Clark and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal Politics of Globalization and Workers with Disabilities in Canada and the United States written by Ravi A. Malhotra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers with disabilities face profound marginalization in both Canada and the United States as determined by a wide variety of measures including labour market participation rates, poverty rates and income levels. However, the advent of deregulated labour markets in a fast-changing world of globalization means both enormous opportunities and perils for workers with disabilities. In this dissertation, I explore the contradictory implications of globalization for workers with disabilities and the important role that legal regulation can play in structuring choices and allocating resources and power. I advocate throughout in favour of the social-political model of disablement as the most persuasive in explicating the systemic problems faced by people with disabilities in Canada and the United States. This approach focuses on the structural barriers and discriminatory attitudes imposed by society on people with disabilities and contrasts sharply with earlier failed paradigms such as the medical and economic models of disablement. These barriers range widely from ignorant attitudes about the capabilities of people with disabilities that malignly encourage discrimination in the workplace to physical impediments such as staircases which make it impossible for many with mobility impairments to access workplaces, educational institutions and public services and the lack of information throughout society and the media in formats accessible to blind people.I maintain that two major implications of the social model for the legal regulation of workers with disabilities are (a) greater worker control over the day to day decisions in the workplace and (b) the provision of disability supports across a disabled person's lifespan that would be decoupled from employment status or income level. I assess some of the major schools associated with the Law and Economics scholarly tradition in light of their salience for the two prongs that I have articulated. These include, inter alia, Behavioural Law and Economics, the Law and Social Norms School, Institutionalist and Neo-Institutionalist Law and Economics, and Critical Race Theory Law and Economics. Finally, I apply the two implications of the social model to evaluate selected key trends of globalization including human capital intensive workplaces, flexible working arrangements, the emergence of new technologies and telework.
Download or read book Ableism at Work written by Paul David Harpur and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes ability equality, but this is not experienced in national laws. Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and the US all have one thing in common: regulatory frameworks which treat workers with psychosocial disabilities less favorably than workers with either physical or sensory disabilities. Ableism at Work is a comprehensive and comparative legal, practical and theoretical analysis of workplace inequalities experienced by workers with psychosocial disabilities. Whether it be denying anti-discrimination protection to people with episodic disabilities, addictions or other psychological impairments, failing to make reasonable accommodations/adjustments for workers with psychosocial disabilities, or denying them workers' compensation or occupational health and safety protections, regulatory interventions imbed inequalities. Ableism, sanism and prejudice are expressly stated in laws, reflected in judgments, and perpetuated by workplace practices and this book enables advocates, policy makers and lawmakers to understand the wider context in which systems discriminate workers with psychosocial disabilities.
Download or read book Comparison of Workmen s Compensation Laws of the United States and Canada Up to January 1 1920 written by Carl Hookstadt and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disability Civil Rights Law and Policy written by Peter David Blanck and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook examines the development of disability rights law and policy in the United States and abroad and can be used as either a law or graduate school teaching tool. It gives a complete and current treatment of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the recently passed ADA Amendments Act, including the background of the statute's passage, definition of disability, discrimination in employment, public services, and public accommodations. It also gives in-depth coverage of other important federal disability discrimination statutes like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Rehabilitation Act, and Fair Housing Amendments Act. This book is unique in that it offers extensive coverage of the rapidly developing area of international disability law, through discussion of the new UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and related developments. The authors also discuss state-level disability discrimination law, as well as current policy issues involving taxation, health policy, and technology.
