Dr. Livingston Will Present on this topic:
“Is it Really a Benevolent Alternative? Considering the Punitive Effects of the ‘Not Criminally Responsible on account of Mental Disorder’ Verdict”
Dr. Jamie Livingston is a criminology professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia who studies and teaches about issues of social inclusion and social justice for people with mental health and substance use issues, with an emphasis on those who are involved with the criminal justice and legal systems. For 20 years, his research has engaged with a range of issues in the forensic mental health system, focusing on the perspectives, experiences, and needs of people found Not Criminally Responsible on account of Mental Disorder.
He will be joined by Jennifer Chambers, Executive Director of the Empowerment Council who will discuss issues of race in the forensic psychiatric system.
Jennifer Chambers Biography
Jennifer Chambers is Executive Director of the Empowerment Council, Systemic Advocates in Addictions and Mental Health. The EC is a peer advocacy organization, run by and for people who have experienced mental health or addiction services. It is funded by CAMH, but takes direction only from its Board and members. EC regularly intervenes in court cases and acquires standing at inquests. EC advocates for a system accountable to those subject to it, and the tracking of aggregate information of the use of force in the mental health system, and the demographic analysis of who is subject to it.
We will also look at a gender based analysis of the same system and reference a paper by Lucy Costa, here:
https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/646/900
Materials:
https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/646 “Women’s Forensic Mental Health Care: The Need for Gender-Based Analysis” Jessica Evans & Lucy Costa
Facilitated by articling student Tanner Blomme
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