Access to Justice for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
A Comparative Analysis of Participation in the Kenyan Criminal Justice System
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Access to Justice for Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities
A Comparative Analysis of Participation in the Kenyan Criminal Justice System
About this book
Taking Kenya as a case study, this book examines the application of criminal procedure in the context of persons with psychosocial disabilities. It discusses how the right to participation of persons with psychosocial disabilities who have been declared unfit can be best protected during and after the criminal process in Africa and at the international level. In doing so, it hypothesises that the social model of disability is inadequate to respond to violations against the right to participation of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the criminal justice system and thus the need for other normative frameworks such as Foucauldian and decolonial theories. It recommends that legislative enactment and reform are imperative not only to promote participation in access to justice but also to remove the barriers inhibiting the legal capacity of persons with psychosocial disabilities. The study will encourage intercontinental dialogue on disability, unfitness declarations, and participation policy analysis, while also contributing to theory and legal development. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of criminal procedure, disability studies, and international human rights law.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Table of cases
- Table of legislation
- 1 Introduction and background
- 2 Theoretical framework
- 3 Constructing psychosocial disability
- 4 Participation of persons with psychosocial disabilities in access to justice
- 5 Realising participation in access to justice through reasonable accommodation in Kenya
- 6 Empirical research methodology
- 7 Data analysis, presentation, and interpretation of results
- 8 Comparative analysis of reform approaches to the decolonisation of unfitness declaration laws in selected jurisdictions
- 9 Summary, conclusion, and recommendations
- Index