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This paper examines the experience of disabled people in the British criminal justice system, paying particular attention to people with learning difficulties. Two aspects of the criminal justice system are discussed. The first concerns the nature of specific legislation which impacts on disabled people. The second refers to recent cases where there has been a miscarriage of justice. Several of the individuals wrongly convicted in such cases have had learning difficulties. The paper argues that disabled people experience discrimination within the criminal justice system, Tackling this discrimination must form part of the agenda for civil rights for disabled people.

The technological revolution, followed by the rise of industrial cities & juvenile gangs, a diffusion of birth control & a decline in religious behavior, has brought about a shrinkage in the functions of the natural family. The state has taken the role of `super' parent, parens patriae, & it is in this sense that its police power towards dependents must be understood. The delinquent child should be dealt with preventively, through adequate schooling, & protectively through juvenile courts supplemented by clinical services. The administration of criminal justice is obsolete, it needs unification, a reform of prison manag, a substitution of the principle of rehabilitation for the archaic theory of retributive punishment. A scholarly body should be created to watch the criminal law in action. IPSA.