Justice or differential treatment? Sentencing of offenders with an intellectual disability

Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-13

  Cockram, Judith ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARSON; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COURT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISABILITY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUNKEN DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OFFENDER; PRISON; SEXUAL CRIME; THEFT;

EID: 17844404544     PISSN: 13668250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668250500033177     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) (1992). Mental Retardation. Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports (9th ed.). Washington, DC: American Association on Mental Retardation.
2. Broadhurst, R., & Maller, M. (1990). The recidivism of prisoners released for the first time: Reconsidering the effectiveness question. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 23, 88-104.
3. Broadhurst, R., & Maller, M. (1991). Estimating the numbers of prison terms in criminal careers from one-step probabilities of recidivism. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 7, 275-290.
4. Brown, B. S., & Courtless, T. F. (1971). The mentally retarded offender (Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Publication No. HSM 72-9039). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
5. Cockram, J., & Underwood, R. (2000). People with an intellectual disability and the arrest process. Law in Context, 77(1), 101-119.
6. Cox-Lindenbaum, D. (1990). A model for staff training and clinical treatment for the mentally retarded sex offender. In A. Dosen, A. Van Gennep, & G. J. Zwanikkeen (Eds.), Treatment of Mental Illness and Behavioural Disorders in the Mentally Retarded: Proceedings of the International Congress (pp. 387-394). Leiden, The Netherlands: Logan Publications.
7. Denowski, G. C., & Denowski, K. M. (1985). The mentally retarded offender in the state prison system. Criminal Justice and Behaviour, 12(1), 55-70.
8. Department of Health (1989). Needs and responses: Services for adults with mental handicap, who are mentally ill, who have behaviour problems or who offend. London: Department of Health.
9. Emerson, E., Hatton, C., Felce, D., & Murphy, G. H. (2001). Learning Disabilities. The Fundamental Facts. London: The Mental Health Foundation (Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities).
10. Ferrante, A. M., & Loh, N. S. (1998). Crime and justice statistics. Perth: Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia.
11. Freeley, M. (1979). The process is the punishment. Handling cases in a lower criminal court. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
12. Gudjonsson, G. H., Clare, I. C. H., Rutter, S., & Pearse, J. (1993). Persons at risk during interview in police custody: The identification of vulnerability (The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice Research Study No. 12). London: HMSO.
13. Harding, R. (1996). Aboriginal contact with the criminal justice system and the impact of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Leichhardt: Hawkins Press.
14. Hayes, S. (1993). People with an intellectual disability and the criminal justice system: Appearances before local courts. Sydney: New South Wales Law Reform Commission (Research Report No. 4).
15. Hayes, S. (1996). People with an intellectual disability and the criminal justice system: Two rural courts. Sydney: New South Wales Law Reform Commission (Research Report No. 5).
16. Hayes, S. C., & Craddock, G. (1992). Simply Criminal (2nd ed.). Annandale: Federation Press.
17. Hayes, S., & McIlwain, D. (1988). The prevalence of intellectual disability in the New South Wales prison population: An empirical study. Report to the Criminology Research Council, Canberra.
18. Holland, T., Clare, I. C. H., & Mukhopadhyay, T. (2002). Prevalence of 'criminal offending' by men and women with intellectual disability and the characteristics of 'offenders': Implications for research and service development. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 46(1), 6-20.
19. Law Reform Commission of Western Australia (1991). The criminal process and persons suffering from mental disorder. Perth: Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.
20. Lund, J. (1990). Mentally retarded criminal offenders in Denmark. British Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 726-731.
21. Lyall, I., Holland, J., Collins, S., & Styles, P. (1995). Incidence of persons with a learning disability detained in police custody: A needs assessment for service development. Medicine, Science and Law, 35, 61-71.
22. McAfee, J., Cockram, J., & Wolfe, P. (2001). Police responses to sexual crimes and people with an intellectual disability. Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 36(2), 160-171.
23. New South Wales Law Reform Commission (1996). People with an intellectual disability and the criminal justice system (Report 80). Sydney. New South Wales Law Reform Commission.
24. Prins, H. A. (1980). Mad or bad: Thoughts on the equivocal relationship between mental disorder and criminality. International Journal of Law Psychiatry, 3, 421-433.
25. Rockowitz, R. (1985) quoted in Santamour., M. (1986). The offender with mental retardation. The Prison Journal, 66(1), 3-18.
26. Swansonj C. K., & Garwick, G. B. (1990). Treatment for low-functioning sex offenders: Group therapy and interagency coordination. Mental Retardation, 28(3), 155-161.