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- Title
Täterbezogene Mythen über geistige Behinderung und sexuelle Gewalt.
- Authors
Krüger, Paula; Schmitz, Seraina Caviezel; Niehaus, Susanna
- Abstract
During criminal proceedings, suspects with intellectual disabilities (ID) are confronted with a criminal justice system, whose rules and procedures are difficult to understand even for individuals with no disability. Without assistance and the consideration of their special communicative needs by the involved professionals, they have fewer chances of obtaining procedural justice than individuals with no disability. Moreover, negative attitudes and myths about ID may influence the case assessment by the parties involved, and may thus unnoticedly affect proceedings and outcome. Hence, the norm of equality before the law depends essentially on it being implemented by the representatives of the forensic and law professions. To date, no study has systematically analyzed the situation of offenders with ID in Switzerland. In an exploratory study a qualitative content analysis was conducted on records of criminal proceedings in two Swiss cantons concerning sexual offences to assess the extent the parties involved refer to myths of ID and sexual violence.
- Publication
Recht & Psychiatrie, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
0724-2247
- Publication type
Article