The Criminalization of Psychiatric Disabilities Through the Lens of Critical Disability Theory
Professor Jamelia Morgan is the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Professor Morgan is an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersection of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law, disability and policing, over-criminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder, and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status.
Jordyn Jensen, M.Ed. is the Executive Director of the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Jordyn is someone with multiple disabilities, chronic illnesses, and psychiatric disability diagnoses. Her personal experience with disability contributes greatly to her interest, leadership, and service in this area. Jordyn's interdisciplinary research and teaching involves critical disability studies, disability policy, the history of urbanization for people with disabilities in the U.S., and the criminalization of disability.
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