The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States
Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this...
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doaj-ac9380b4afb5441282c931b0c60fe7892020-11-25T03:43:35ZengUniversity of WindsorCritical Social Work1543-93722020-10-0121210.22329/csw.v21i2.6462The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United StatesLauren A. Ricciardelli0Larry Nackerud1Adam E. Quinn2Troy UniversityUniversity of GeorgiaWalden University Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this mixed methods study explores conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration. The overlay of criminal justice norms and practices onto civil law without parallel adoption of safeguards results in the misallocation of risk to individuals with out-group membership status. This study offers conceptual analysis by applying to the policy issue, standard of proof of intellectual disability in death penalty cases, the framework of membership theory and related constructs present in the scholarly literature on immigration policy. Exact measures logistic regression is used to predictively link states’ standards of proof of intellectual disability with immigration status. It was found that the best model predicting the probability of a Higher than Preponderance standard of proof of intellectual disability in death penalty cases was a two-variable model consisting of Prior Ban and Unauthorized Immigration. This study presents recommendations for research and policy practice. https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/csw/article/view/6462Crimmigrationsocial inclusion/exclusionmembership theorystandard of proof of intellectual disability |
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States |
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States |
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States |
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States |
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The Criminalization of Immigration and Intellectual Disability in the United States |
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criminalization of immigration and intellectual disability in the united states |
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Critical Social Work |
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2020-10-01 |
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Public attitudes, negative stereotypes, and stigma are essential to cultural narratives about the membership status of people with intellectual disability and people who have immigrated to the United States. With a concern for the exclusion of people from participation in democratic societies, this mixed methods study explores conceptual links between the criminalization of intellectual disability and immigration. The overlay of criminal justice norms and practices onto civil law without parallel adoption of safeguards results in the misallocation of risk to individuals with out-group membership status. This study offers conceptual analysis by applying to the policy issue, standard of proof of intellectual disability in death penalty cases, the framework of membership theory and related constructs present in the scholarly literature on immigration policy. Exact measures logistic regression is used to predictively link states’ standards of proof of intellectual disability with immigration status. It was found that the best model predicting the probability of a Higher than Preponderance standard of proof of intellectual disability in death penalty cases was a two-variable model consisting of Prior Ban and Unauthorized Immigration. This study presents recommendations for research and policy practice.
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