People with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system.

Intellectually Disabled Victims of Sexual Abuse in the Criminal Justice System

People with intellectual disabilities face an exceptionally high risk of being victims of sexual abuse and thereby becoming involved in the criminal justice system. Coping effectively with this system is enough of a challenge for those without disability, but it is far more difficult for the intellectually disabled. As a result, greater attention needs to be paid to their needs. From the opposi...

Offenders With Intellectual Disability: Characteristics, Prevalence, and Issues in Forensic Assessment

Although the problem of people with disabilities as victims of crime has been well recognized, the known characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) also make them vulnerable to becoming perpetrators of crimes. Most such crimes are minor, but the 2002 Atkins v. Virginia decision called national attention to people with ID and people with dual diagnoses who commit capital crime...

Running head: ID AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 1 Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Considerations for the Criminal Justice System

Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System and Implications for Transition Planning

The focus of this manuscript is on the challenges faced by individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities within the criminal justice system. Prevalence data are cited and these data are interpreted in light of possible rationales for the disproportionate number of individuals with disabilities present within the system. Then the specific challenges faced by individuals with disab...

Protecting the habitats of native fish in Guilan province in the light of the strategies of the Iranian criminal justice system

Environmental hazards such as the destruction of habitats of endemic fish are one of the obvious challenges on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. This research, which has been written by descriptive-analytical method and using the approach of interdisciplinary research, seeks to examine the strategies of the criminal justice system in this regard and in Guilan province. Degradation, illega...