\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In another\none of my classes I am currently exploring the legislation of the\ndeinstitutionalization movement and its purported association with\ncriminalization. That sounds super dense, but the gist is that there is an\nongoing movement to provide the disabled\u2013namely, the neurodivergent\u2013with the\nmost integrated living possible (e.g. assisted living rather than life in a\npsychiatric facility) and, given that the process so far has focused more on\nclosing inadequate care facilities than providing more comprehensive care,\nthere has been a large debate over the level of success attained. Some scholars\n(Slate) argue that the movement has opened the door not for desegregation, but\nfor criminalization via trans-institutionalization; this claim is supported by\nthe rise in numbers of arrested\/incarcerated mentally ill individuals, as well\nas the reality that the majority of psychiatric care in a given state is\nadministered in carceral contexts. Other scholars (Bagenstos) contend that\ncriminalization was a pre-existing condition and that the number of disabled\nindividuals in jails\/prisons only rose due to the increase of the population in\nmainstream society. The perspective I found most interesting, though, was Kevin\nCremin\u2019s; he argued that regardless of whether the movement had succeeded or\nfailed thus far, the reason it had not progressed much over the years was that\nlegislation chose to define integration only through what it is not and, by\nextension, disability by what it is not. I feel that Alison Kafer\u2019s work converses\nfairly directly with an analysis such as this, given the usage of binaries and\ndefining concepts only through the process of othering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My take on\nthe entire situation is that criminalization of the disabled was absolutely\nexistent prior to deinstitutionalization; however, because the legislation\ncreated defined individuals as only worth reintroducing to society based on\ntheir level of potential danger, a definition of disability was created that\nwarranted excessive surveillance and evoked fear from the general public and\nthe criminal justice system. Let\u2019s first start with Kafer\u2019s phrase \u201chow one\nunderstands disability in the present determines how one imagines disability in\nthe future; one\u2019s assumptions about the experience of disability create one\u2019s\nconception of a better future\u201d (2). While the reading uses this most directly\nwith the common oppositional notions that disability must either be tragic by\nnature or by society (i.e. medical or social model), it can definitely speak to\nthis practice of practically speaking into existence the incarceration of\nintegrated individuals.[1]<\/sup><\/a> This\nleads to an interesting point later on in the reading, in which a \u201cfocus from\nthe inability of the body to the inaccessibility of the space makes room for\nactivism and change\u201d by way of a simple exercise in measurement of\naccessibility of a public space (Kafer 9). Kafer suggests this works as an\nexample of the success of the \u201cpolitical\/relational model\u201d that calls for the\nacknowledgment of the disabled existence as politicized and I absolutely love\nhow well it fits with Cremin\u2019s point. In the example, individuals are not\nsimply told what is inaccessible, but they are informed what accessibility is\nin order to give them the ability to imagine an accessible future. I find that\nthis reading will help advance my point that legislation thus far has been\nincomplete and has, at the very least, left stigma and criminalization\nunchallenged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Word Count: 582<\/p>\n\n\n\n I pledge: Rebekah Stone Works Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bagenstos, Samuel R. \u201cThe Past and\nFuture of Deinstitutionalization Litigation.\u201d Cardozo Law Review, vol. 34, no.\n1, Oct. 2012, pp. 1\u201352. EBSCOhost,\numw.idm.oclc.org\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=83408541&site=ehost-live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cremin, Kevin M. \u201cChallenges to Institutionalization:\nThe Definition of \u2018Institution\u2019 and the Future of Olmstead Litigation.\u201d Texas\nJournal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2012, pp.\n143\u2013180. EBSCOhost, umw.idm.oclc.org\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lgh&AN=83474830&site=ehost-live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kafer, Alison. Feminist, Queer,\nCrip. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2013. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slate, Risdon N.\n\u201cDeinstitutionalization, Criminalization of Mental Illness, and the Principle\nof Therapeutic Jurisprudence.\u201d Southern California Interdisciplinary Law\nJournal, vol. 26, no. 2, Spring 2017, pp. 341\u2013356. EBSCOhost,\numw.idm.oclc.org\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lgh&AN=123799180&site=ehost-live. [1]<\/sup><\/a> To clarify, I am not suggesting that there is any\nassociation between disability and crime other than the crime of\npoverty\/necessity; the media\u2019s insistence that neurodivergent individuals are\nviolent is incredibly unnerving and unsupported by facts and statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In another one of my classes I am currently exploring the legislation of the deinstitutionalization movement and its purported association with criminalization. That sounds super dense, but the gist is that there is an ongoing movement to provide the disabled\u2013namely, the neurodivergent\u2013with the most integrated living possible (e.g. assisted living rather than life in … Continue reading “Bekah\u2019s Response to Alison Kafer\u2019s \u201cIntroduction: Imagined Futures\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alison-kafer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papJgd-hV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.chris-foss.net\/dislit19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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