Lock 'Them' Up?

Disability & Mental Illness Aren't Crimes Conference


Brisbane,Australia
Mercure Hotel
17th-19th May 2006

Conference Themes

  • What's the Cause? Why are so many people with intellectual disability/mental illness criminalised?
  • Social Inclusion & Alternatives to Prison
  • Support & Services in the Criminal Justice System - pre/post release services; arrest; prisons.
  • History and Culture of criminalisation of mental illness and disability

Conference Program

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Confernece Papers

Wednesday

Keynote Addresses

Workshops

People & Prison
Who Gets Labelled

Robert Pedley
Prison Mental Health Service (Qld Health)
Prison Mental Health Services in SE Queensland
Intellectual Disability & Prison
Indigenous Mental Health

James Condren-Stand Up & Be
Counted Advocacy Group
"People with an Intellectual Disability in the criminal justice System"

Kathy Ellem-University of Queensland
"Of Mice, Men and Patriarchy: The Social Construction of Offenders with Intellectual Disability within Custodial Corrections"
Jenny Thompson-Queensland

Ray Jackson- Indigenous Social Justice Association

 

Thursday

Keynote Addresses

Workshops

International Perspectives
Blaming Women
Diverse Perspectives
Legal Perspectives

Phillip French -Queensland Advocacy Inc

Jeff Cheverton-Qld Alliance of Mental Health & Psychiatric Disability Groups Foucault Analysis

Meg Perkins- Psychologist
The Cycle of Crime: PTSD is Mental Illness too.

 

Friday

Keynote Addresses

Practical Support
Legal Support
Jane Hegerty & Melanie Mitchell-Sisters Inside
"It's not going to break me." Mental Health and Women's Experiences in the Prison System.

SUFY
Speaking Up For You

Independent Advocacy in the Tropics

Simon Wardale
Australian Community Support Organisation
Person Centred Offender Support Making the Contradictions Complimentary

Dan Toombs
The Advocacy & Support Centre
Why criminal lawyers assist in the imprisonment of the disabled!

Kristen Hilton
PILCH Homeless Persons' Legal Clinic
It must be better on the outside: prisoners, homelessness and access to justice
Deaths in Custody
Young People

Charandev Singh -Brimbank Melton Community Legal Centre
Deaths in Custody, Lethal Indifference and State Crimes

Ray Jackson- Indigenous Social Justice Association

Phil Dodds & Tamsin McGuin-Sisters Inside
Behind Closed Bars