Criminalized and Disabled

Chrissie Rogers is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Kent, and Major Leverhulme Trust Fellow.

• 1. Introduction 2. Beyond the Crime: Telling Stories 3. Mapping the Landscape, Listening to Professionals 4. Before & During Criminalization: Stories from the Men as Boys5. A Sentence for Life: Mothering and Pathways to Crime 6. Crossing Boundaries and Sex Offending7. Mothers as Caring Victims: Arrest to Incarceration 8. Arrest, Incarceration and Criminalized Disabled Men9. Conclusion

‘Criminalized and Disabled is a powerful, challenging and deeply empathetic exploration of neurodivergent and learning-disabled men, and their mothers, who experience the criminal justice system.’ Janice McLaughlin, author of Disabled Childhoods: Monitoring Difference and Emerging Identities