Introduction to the Symposium - Decarcerating Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: New Writing on Disability, Abolition and the Limits of Rights

Authors

  • Liat Ben-Moshe
  • Linda Steele

Abstract

Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele introduce a Symposium on their 2020 publications Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Ben-Moshe) and Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion (Steele). Ben-Moshe and Steele introduce their own books and then identify connections between the books. They situate their discussion in the anti-carceral activism that emerged during 2020 and in longer term activist and scholarly work on deinstitutionalisation, prison abolition and rights in the criminal justice system.

Author Biographies

Liat Ben-Moshe

Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Linda Steele

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Published

03-07-2023

How to Cite

Ben-Moshe, L., & Steele, L. (2023). Introduction to the Symposium - Decarcerating Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: New Writing on Disability, Abolition and the Limits of Rights. Feminists@law, 12(1). Retrieved from https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/1179

Issue

Section

Decarcerating Disability, Criminal Justice and Law