NSW Council for Intellectual Disability – Indigenous Justice Clearinghouse

NSW Council for Intellectual Disability

Participants or just policed? Guide to the role of DisabilityCare Australia with people with intellectual disability who have contact with the criminal justice system

Resources May,2013

Authors: Simpson, Jim

Publishers: NSW Council for Intellectual Disability

Various studies indicate that people with intellectual disability are highly represented in the criminal justice system and this appears particularly clear in the juvenile justice system. Offenders with intellectual disability […]

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