COGNITIVE DISABILITY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE: MEDIA REPORTS, RECOMMENDATIONS, ETC.
Governments and People around the WORLD are struggling with the legal, legislative and policy implications of COGNITIVE DISABILITIES that were not recognized and/or understood even a few years ago.
Further, our new found knowledge points to even more.
the Australian Government and the Council of Australian Governments, through the Community and Disability Services Ministers’ Conference … [should] engage in an urgent program of legislative and policy reform alongside service development to ensure that offenders with an ABI have access to programs of diversion and offender rehabilitation “on an equal basis with others.”
Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer, Brain Injury Australia
John Broderick: From New Hampshire Chief Justice to Mental Health Crusader (2019)
Broderick is the Senior Director for Public Affairs for Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H), a nonprofit academic health system that serves close to 1.9 million people in New England. Prior to joining D-H, he served as Dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law and, most notably, as Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court from 2004 to 2010 – the culmination of an accomplished legal career.
