Autism Awareness and Crime

Investigating the School-to-Prison Pipeline
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01378-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Autism Awareness and Crime explores Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and the ‘school to prison pipeline’.

 

This book takes the reader through a journey from understanding autism, how it manifests and how it is diagnosed. The author looks at how circumstances in schools  including isolation, misunderstanding meltdowns, lack of autism awareness and training have criminalised autism, leading to suspensions, exclusions, and the use of restraint and seclusion. He draws on survey data to ascertain whether there is a link between a lack of autism awareness and provision in education settings for young people, and an increased likelihood of criminal behaviour later in life. The book looks at the type of offences that young people with autism are commonly arrested for, and the contributing autistic traits that are related to them which can be termed ‘risk factors’. Criminal offences including stalking, arson and cyber-dependent crimes are examined in detail and the book also considers how individuals with ASD are treated by the criminal justice system.

 

This volume is ideal for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of forensic psychology, criminology, special educational needs and social work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexander-Passe, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Amanada Kirby

Foreword by Clare Allely

Foreword by Matthew Graham

1. Introduction

2. What is Autism?

3. Anxiety

4. Victimisation

5. Anger and Anger Management

6. Autism and Meltdowns/Shutdowns

7. Restraint and seclusion

8. Exclusions

9. Autism and criminal behaviours

10. Failed by the criminal justice system

11. The Study and Results

12. Discussion

13. Conclusion

 

Appendix 1: Stimming

Appendix 2: Adult Autism Survey

Appendix 3: Parent Autism Survey

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Alexander-Passe is a school leader, a former SENDCO (Special educational needs and co-ordinator) and Assistant Head for primary and secondary schools in London. He is an ‘Inclusion Expert’ at the Department of Education (UK), and the author of 15 books focused on dyslexia and neurodiversity from a lived-experience, trauma perspective and has published 12 peer-reviewed papers. He is on the academic boards of dyslexia charities in Australia, and on the editorial board of a dyslexia-based academic peer-reviewed journal in Singapore.