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Disability hate crime is a hate crime which involves the use of violence against people with disabilities. This form of violence is not only violence in a physical sense, it also includes other hostile acts, such as the repeated blocking of disabled access [ 1 ] and verbal abuse. [ 1 ]
Boland, F, Diminished Responsibility as a Defence in Irish Law: Past English Mistakes and Future Irish Directions, (1996) 5 Irish Criminal Law Journal 19. Butler Committee (1975) The Butler Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders (London: HMSO) Cmnd 6244. Dell, S, Diminished Responsibility Reconsidered, (1982) CLR 809.
Derogatory term (referring to a mentally ill person or a person with brain damage and dementia caused by heavy metal poisoning) popularized especially due to the fictional character of the same name [53] Maniac [6] Mental, mentally deficient, mental case or mentally ill [6] [15] [16] [22] Midget [16] Mong, Mongol, Mongoloid, or Mongolism
Mentally ill people face dehumanizing conditions “Reports from jails across the country, from Rikers in New York to Santa Clara County’s main jail comple in San Jose, Calif., have shown that ...
Hundreds of mentally ill detainees incarcerated across California in recent years have languished in jail long after being declared incompetent to stand trial.
Political abuse of psychiatry, also known as punitive psychiatry, refers to the misuse of psychiatric diagnosis, detention, and treatment to suppress individual or group human rights in society. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 491 This abuse involves the deliberate psychiatric diagnosis of individuals who require neither psychiatric restraint nor treatment ...
Chludisnky’s case and others underline that while the state’s “red flag” law focuses on mental health, it goes only so far. Under the law, police can seize weapons from anyone ...
True healing of a moral injury seems to take time. “I don’t think it ever happens in the therapy,” Nash said, “because I don’t think the therapy is ever long enough for that to happen. All we can do is plant seeds.” But, he added, “as far as I know that’s the only route to salvation, and it ain’t easy and it ain’t quick.”