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Appendix
Workshop Materials
AGENDA
October 28-29, 1999
The Lecture Room, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center National Academies, 100 Academy Drive, Irvine, California
Thursday, October 28, 1999
8:30-8:45
Welcome
Carol Petrie, Director
Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council
Nancy Crowell, Study Director
National Research Council
Joan Petersilia, Professor, Criminology, Law & Society
University of California, Irvine, and
Vice Chair, Committee on Law and Justice
8:45-9:00
Introduction—Objectives of Workshop
Joan Petersilia
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9:00-10:30
The Nature and Extent of Crimes Against Persons with Developmental Disabilities
Ruth Luckasson, Professor of Special Education
University of New Mexico
Comments
Beverly Frantz, Institute on Disabilities
Temple University
Jody Wildy, Director
Center for Independent Living, Washington, DC
Discussion
10:30-10:45
BREAK
10:45-12:15
Why Are Victims with Disabilities at High Risk for Victim ization: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
Richard Sobsey, Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Peter Calder, Professor Emeritus
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Alberta, Edmonton
Comments
Ryan Wright, Deputy District Attorney
Victims Service Unit
Ventura County, CA District Attorney's Office
Valeri Criino-Paez, Victim Advocate
Ventura County, CA District Attorney's Office
Discussion
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12:15-12:45
Findings From the Survey of Women with Disabilities
MaryAnn Curry, Professor, Oregon Health Services University School of Nursing
Laurie Powers
Center on Self Determination
Oregon Institute on Disability and Development
Discussion
12:45-2:00
Lunch
Jan Chaiken, Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
2:00-3:30
Measuring the Incidence and Prevalence of Crime Against Persons with Disabilities: Methodological Concerns and Remedies
Richard McCleary, Professor
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Douglas Wiebe
School of Social Ecology
University of California, Irvine
Comments
Colin Loftin, Professor
School of Criminal Justice
University of Albany
Rick Ingraham, Chief, Health and Wellness Section
Department of Development Services
State of California
Discussion
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3:30-3:45
Break
3:45-5:15
Abuse and Neglect of Children with Disabilities
Patricia M. Sullivan
Center for Abused Children with Disabilities
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Comments
John Knutson, Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Iowa
Paul Feuerstein, Executive Director
Barrier Free Living, Inc., New York, NY
Discussion
5:15-5:30
Wrap-up
Joan Petersilia
5:20
Adjourn
5:30
Reception
Friday, October 29, 1999
8:30-8:45
Welcome
8:45-10:15
Mental Retardation and Court Processing: Consent, Capacity, and Other Key Legal Issues
Robert D. Dinerstein, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
American University, Washington College of Law
Comments
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Gail Goodman, Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
Susan Stefan, Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
Discussion
10:15-10:30
BREAK
10:30-12:00
The Role of Law Enforcement in Providing Effective and ADA-Compliant Service to Victims with Developmental Disabilities
Leigh Ann Davis
The Arc of the United States, Arlington, Texas
Comments
Linda Teplin, Professor
Department of Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Barry Perrou, Psychologist
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Discussion
12:00-1:30
Lunch
Laura Mosqueda, Director of Geriatrics and Clinical
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
UCI College of Medicine
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1:30-3:00
Toward Victim Recovery: Meeting the Needs of Crime Victims with Disabilities
Nora J. Baladerian
Spectrum Institute
Culver City, California
Comments
Dean Kilpatrick, Professor
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
Medical University of South Carolina
Lawrence H. Bergmann, President
Post Trauma Resources
Columbia, South Carolina
Discussion
3:15
Break
3:30-5:00
Advocacy, Hate Crime Legislation, and Other Legal Means to Respond to Victims with Disabilities
Ryken Grattet, Associate Professor
Sociology Department
University of California, Davis
Valerie Jenness, Associate Professor
Department of Criminology, Law & Society
University of California, Irvine
Comments
Wayne Logan, Associate Professor
School of Criminal Justice
University of Albany
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Marc Dubin, Trial Attorney
Civil Rights Division
Disability Rights Section
U.S. Department of Justice
Discussion
5:00
Wrap-up and adjourn
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BACKGROUND PAPERS
Crimes Against Persons with Developmental Disabilities: An Overview
Ruth Luckasson
Violence Against People with Disabilities: A Conceptual Analysis
Richard Sobsey and Peter Calder
Measuring the Victimization Risk of the Developmentally Disabled: Methodological Problems and Solutions
Richard McCleary and Douglas Wiebe
Violence and Abuse Against Children with Disabilities
Patricia M. Sullivan
Participation of People with Mental Retardation in Court Proceedings: Consent, Capacity, and Accommodation
Robert D. Dinerstein
The Criminal Justice Response to Victims with Developmental Disabili ties: Utilizing Effective ADA Accommodations
Leigh Ann Davis
Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities: Maltreatment Update
Nora J. Baladerian
Policy Responses to the Victimization of Persons with Disabilities: An Assessment of the Viability of Using Hate Crime Law to Enhance the Status and Welfare of Persons with Disabilities
Ryken Grattet and Valerie Jenness
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PAPER AUTHORS
Joan Petersilia (Workshop Chair) is professor of criminology, law, and society in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She conducts research on various aspects of crime and public policy, focusing on both methodology and substance. Her research and teaching covers research methods, program evaluation, policy analysis, juvenile delinquency, corrections, and criminology.
Nora Baladerian is a licensed clinical psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, certified sex therapist, board certified forensic examiner, and certified substance abuse professional. Since 1972, she has worked in the areas of child abuse and developmental disabilities and the abuse of dependent adults. She is the director of the Disability, Abuse and Personal Rights Project of SPECTRUM Institute in Los Angeles, California, and cochair of the Los Angeles County Child Abuse Council for Children with Disabilities, and the immediate past chair of the National Commission on Abuse of Adults with Disabilities (which has now merged with the National Committee to Prevent Elder Abuse).
Peter Calder is a professor emeritus of educational psychology and clinical director of the J.P. Das Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Prior to becoming involved with the Centre and working on issues related to individuals with developmental disabilities, he taught and did research in the areas of counseling and school psychology. He has collaborated with Richard Sobsey in a number of stud ies relating to issues of individuals with developmental disabilities, includ ing a review commissioned by The Law Commission of Canada on the needs of victims of institutional abuse.
Mary Ann Curry is the Grace Phelps distinguished professor at Oregon Health Sciences University School of Nursing. Her program of research focuses exclusively on issues of violence and abuse against women, including women with disabilities. Current projects include a nursing intervention for abused pregnant women, women's risk factors for being killed by an intimate partner, and the abuse experiences of women with disabilities.
Leigh Ann Davis is project specialist of The Arc of the United States in
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Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1994 she directed The Arc's Access to Justice Project and developed the only national resource list of its kind solely devoted to the issue of criminal justice and people with mental retardation. She authored Understanding Mental Retardation: Training for Law Enforcement, a training curriculum developed for The Arc's 1,000 state and local chapters to use when educating local police officers about mental retardation. She conducts train-the-trainer workshops throughout the country to facilitate continued education of police and people with disabilities.
Robert Dinerstein is professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs at American University, Washington College of Law, where he has taught since 1983. Prior to coming to the Washington College of Law, he was an attorney for five years at the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, where he litigated cases concerning conditions in state mental retardation, mental illness, and juvenile institutions. He is coeditor, with Stan Herr and Joan O'Sullivan, of A Guide to Consent (1999).
Ryken Grattet is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of deviance, law, and public policy. He is completing a book (with Valerie Jenness) entitled, Bias Crime Politics and Public Policy: Building a Response to Discriminatory Violence, to be published in the American Sociological Association's Rose Monograph Series by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Valerie Jennes is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on the links between crime and social control (especially law), gender, and social change (especially social movements). She is the coauthor of Hate Crime Policy in the U.S.: Building a Response to Discriminatory Violence (with Ryken Grattet), and Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence (with Kendal Broad).
Ruth Luckasson is Regents' professor and professor of special education at the University of New Mexico. She is the coordinator of mental retardation training programs, and teaches in the areas of legal rights of people with disabilities, special education law, teaching students with mental retardation, and educational leadership. As a lawyer, she also has a long history of working for the legal rights of people with mental retardation. Appointed
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in 1988, Professor Luckasson chairs the American Association on Mental Retardation's Committee on Terminology and Classification, the major group charged with defining the disability of mental retardation.
Richard McCleary is professor of social ecology and director of the MR/DD Research Center Biostatistics Core at the University of California, Irvine. During the 1998-99 academic year, he was visiting professor of public health (Epidemiology Division) at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include injury and injury-related fatalities, developmental disabilities of the very young and very old, and the relationship between the two.
Laurie Powers is an associate professor of pediatrics, public health and psychiatry and the co-director of the Oregon Institute on Disability and Development's Center on Self-Determination at the Oregon Health Sciences University. She is the director of research for the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Health and Wellness for Persons with Long Term Disabilities. She has extensive experience in abuse and violence against persons with disabilities, health and wellness, and self-determination.
Richard Sobsey is a professor of educational psychology and director of the J.P. Das Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He has worked with children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities since 1968 as a registered nurse, a certified teacher, and in a number of other roles and since 1986 has been actively involved in research on violence against people with disabilities and in advocating for reforms to reduce the risk of violence. He is author of Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities: The End of Silent Acceptance? and many other books and articles on the topic. His current research is on victims of homicide with developmental disabilities.
Patricia Sullivan directs the Research Program on Abused Children with Disabilities at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Her research areas of interest include: (1) the prevalence of maltreatment among children with disabilities; (2) efficacy studies of psychotherapy methods with sexually abused children; (3) factors coexisting with child abuse and neglect, such as domestic violence, parental alcohol and/or drug abuse, and family stress factors; (4) the general characteristics of runaways, including the presence of disabilities among them; (5) long-term psycho-
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social consequences of maltreatment; and (6) identifying base rates and barriers to accessing managed care health services for children and youth with disabilities.
Douglas Wiebe is a Ph.D. student in social ecology and a research associate in the MR/DD Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on public health and epidemiological approaches to reducing violence and injury. He has published research in the areas of statistical methodology, geographical and temporal patterns of street gang activity, violence among inmates, and the relationship between mental illness and violence.
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