“An Autistic Man Lives Here Cops No Excuses… Oh Yes He Is Black Too”
Subtitle: Cognitive Disability, Race and Police Brutality in the United States
By: Elinoam Abramov
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2017
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.?]
Language: eng
Description: This thesis explores the relationship between race and cognitive disability in police brutality cases. For the first time in academia, it systematically investigates cases where police officers have used excessive force against individuals with cognitive disabilities, using of The Guardian newspaper’s database on police killing and independently conducted research. It draws on the literature on the role of mental illness in police brutality cases, as well as historical literature on race and cognitive disability to inform conclusions on the criminalisation of people of colour with cognitive disabilities; ultimately showing how a historically entrenched and mutually reinforcing racist and ableist system has criminalised mentally disabled people of colour, making them more likely to be perceived as dangerous by police.
Notes: Department: Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

Thesis advisor: Max A. Mishler.

Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia University, 2017.