Disability Justice in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Racism, classism, ableism, and other oppressions intersect to create and shape how marginalized people are made vulnerable to surveillance, criminalization, police violence, and all forms of incarceration (Gibson & Lewis, 2018; Kaba, 2018; Kinna & Gordon, 2019; Lewis, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 20...

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1. Verfasser: Talila A. Lewis
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Zusammenfassung:Racism, classism, ableism, and other oppressions intersect to create and shape how marginalized people are made vulnerable to surveillance, criminalization, police violence, and all forms of incarceration (Gibson & Lewis, 2018; Kaba, 2018; Kinna & Gordon, 2019; Lewis, 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, 2020). In this chapter, I highlight how different regimes within the criminal legal system¹ effectively collaborate to produce and exploit these vulnerabilities. Consider the following: Disabled people represent more than half of those killed by U.S. law enforcement annually (McNamara, 2016). Of 15 documented fatal police encounters with deaf² people in the past 20 years, all victims had at
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv2rcngmd.14