Institutional Violence and Disability

This work analyses disability and institutional violence through an interdisciplinary approach that draws from legal studies, disability studies, and critical social and psychological theory.

Kate Rossiter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University's Brantford campus, and is the Principal of "Recounting Huronia: An Arts-Based Participatory Research Project." Kate's background combines the critical social scientific study of public health and embodiment with theatre and performance studies. Kate lives in Brantford, Ontario with her partner and two children. Jen Rinaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Her research takes up how non-normative-particularly cripped, Mad, fat, and queer-bodies are read, marked, and produced in and through socio-legal discourse. She explores these themes using collaborative and narrative-based methodologies and community arts praxis. Jen lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Institutional Cases & the Conditions for Moral Abdication; Chapter 3: The Institutional Violence Continuum; Chapter 4: Thoughtlessness & Violence as Work Culture; Chapter 5: Quantifying & Re-Inscribing Violence; Chapter 6: Embedded Trauma & Embodied Resistance; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Bibliography