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2021

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Disability Law

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Criminalization And Normalization: Some Thoughts About Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, Richard C. Boldt Jan 2021

Criminalization And Normalization: Some Thoughts About Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, Richard C. Boldt

Faculty Scholarship

Response to Professor E. Lea Johnston, Reconceptualizing Criminal Justice Reform for Offenders with Serious Mental Illness

Abstract

While Professor Johnston is persuasive that clinical factors such as diagnosis and treatment history are not, in most cases, predictive by themselves of criminal behavior, her concession that those clinical factors are associated with a constellation of risks and needs that are predictive of criminal system involvement complicates her efforts to maintain a clear boundary between the criminalization theory and the normalization thesis. Indeed, Professor Johnston’s article contains a brief section in which she identifies “possible justifications” for the specialized programs that are …


A Socio-Legal Framework For Improving The Accessibility Of Research Articles For People With Disabilities, Brian Wentz, Jonathan Lazar, Paul T. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham Jan 2021

A Socio-Legal Framework For Improving The Accessibility Of Research Articles For People With Disabilities, Brian Wentz, Jonathan Lazar, Paul T. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham

Journal of Business & Technology Law

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