Elena Marchetti talking about #Indigenous men’s experiences of #imprisonment - #DreamingInside Program at Junee Correctional Centre aims to get men “thinking & writing creatively” (founder Aunty Barbara Nicholson) #therapeutic #artsbased intervention #rehabilitation #IALMH2019

@ValmaineToki talking about initial signs of success of #Indigenous #YouthCourt in NewZealand: YP “turning up”, bringing their family; marae setting = symbolic ground for centring their identity within Maori culture. #IALMH2019

Local communities want #OnCountryCamps as #AlternativeToPrison to reduce the criminogenic socially disruptive & harmful effects of cyclic imprisonment #KeepingOnCountry #StrongFamilies #IALMH2019

@ScottTheHolWrld explaining how, from an Aboriginal perspective, ‘disability’ is transformed from an isolating biomedical categorisation to an inclusive identity that facilitates connection to community #IALMH2019

...How the intersection of racism & ableism manifests in #Aboriginal #children w undiagnosed #disabilities being labelled ‘bad black kids’ #IALMH2019

@ScottTheHolWrld talking about a community-directed philosophy to research on disability, grounded in Aboriginal values & worldview, starting with the research Q: “What is your story?” #IALMH2019

@ScottTheHolWrld talking about the intersection between #Indigeneity & #disability, understanding disability from an Aboriginal perspective, how colonisation brought forces of institutionalisation into Indigenous people’s lives #IALMH2019

Caroline Strevens, Head of School and Reader in Legal Education, has spoken at the XXXVIth International Congress on Law and Mental
Health in Rome on Educating for Well-Being: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum Design #IALMH #ialmh2019...

Magistrate Pauline Spencer talking about better court responses to people with #ABI #IALMH2019 #TherapeuticJurisprudence

High proportion of children with #TBI manifest behavioural changes & difficulties w social & emotional understanding - implications for #SchoolExclusion, #Criminalisation & explains high proportion (45%)of YP in custody who’ve experienced head injury #IALMH2019

Deprivation and age are big determining factors for #traumaticbraininjury, ie children living in conditions of adversity far more likely to have a brain injury by the age of 5 #IALMH2019

@huwwilliams19 talking about the links between #neurodevelopmental #maturity, #trauma & #violence #IALMH2019

e.g. language used, interviewing techniques, communication difficulties - these issues more pronounced in cultural contexts where behaviours have different meanings (eg eye contact) #IALMH2019

How “criminal justice processes and practices disable and criminalise young people” with neurodevelopmental impairment #IALMH2019

Good to hear @nathanjhughes talking about the #criminalisation of childhood #neurodevelopmental impairment in #YouthJustice at the Law & Mental Health Conference in Rome #IALMH2019 @JypNetwork

Bernadette Saunders talking about her work w @Eriksson_Monash et al on lawyers’ lack of understanding of their clients’ #ABI & confusion with other #CognitiveDisabilities #IALMH2019

Sheila Wildeman describes the “mental healthification” of disability & corrections as concealing & blocking efforts to address underlying structural factors (racism, ableism, colonialism etc) that produce #hypercriminalisation & #overrepresentation #IALMH2019

@tesssheldon talking about use of #Trespass law in Canada to remove & exclude ppl disabilities, homeless ppl & ‘complainers’ from public service spaces, shopping malls, parks & even aged care #IALMH2019

Patrick Magee talking about his role as advocate and activist for justice for criminalised people with #CognitiveDisabilities in #IndefiniteDetention, and the importance of giving voice to #LivedExperience. “Be relentless be courageous!” #IALMH2019

Since Gladue (1999) Indigenous women’s overincarceration has increased in Canada (as in Australia) suggesting string link b/n child removal & women’s imprisonment #IALMH2019

Paula Maurutto talking about her work w @KMoffatHannah analysing #Gladue alternative sentencing reports in understanding #indigenous #women’s #overrepresentation in Canada’s prison #IALMH2019

Ben Garcia-Lee on developing an alternative emancipatory casework practice model for working with criminalised ppl w #CognitiveDisability #TransformativePraxis #IALMH2019

@l_dowse giving examples of young people categorised, labelled & criminalised as ‘trouble’, problematic: ‘Jack’ has “issues managing his anger”; ‘Casey’ is “attention-seeking” & therefore unworthy of #care #TransgressiveDisability #IALMH2019

@l_dowse describes multiple intersecting complex difficulties that plague people’s lives as “corrosive disadvantage”, also how #disability as a binary (disabled/able) can be experienced as an oppressive identity #IALMH2019

Simone Rowe in why we need to bring together #CriticalDisabiityStudies & #PenalAbolitionism to understand penal logics at play in the overrepresentation of people w #CognitiveDisabilities &/or #MentalIllness in #prisons #carcerality #depenalisation #IALMH2019

@ChrisCunneen1 talking about overt forms of racialised #YouthJustice (eg policing) as well as more subtle everyday forms of intervention, i.e. how “risk assessment both masks race, and marks race”, YP categorised & marked out through race, and disguised (eg Roma) #IALMH2019

#IALMH2019 looking forward to this panel on Vulnerable Populations in the CJS: #Criminalisation & #Marginalisation w @ChrisCunneen1 @l_dowse, Simone Rowe & Ben Garcia-Lee #racialisation #youthjustice #youthdetention

No surprises in #trauma & #incarceration panel: both men & women in prison report high levels of #adversechildhoodexperience #neglect #abuse #familyviolence Prisons are not places to treat emotional & psychological distress & #trauma #AlternativesToPrison #IALMH2019

Nancy Wolff: “We don’t see the person, we’ve decomposed them into these statistics” #riskassessment #probability. The antidote = emotional support for ppl to feel safe enough to tell what they’ve kept hidden #PersonCentredTreatment #IALMH2019

Nancy Wolff: Prison staff are “taught to dehumanise us” #ViolenceOfIncarceration #Confinement #BarriersToRecovery #Trauma #Incarceration #IALMH2019