THE BOOKS.

Representing People with Mental Disabilities

Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Criminal Defense Lawyer's Best Practices Manual, was edited by Elizabeth Kelley. It contains chapters devoted to a variety of issues confronted by people with mental disabilities in the criminal justice system such as Competency, Sanity, Malingering, Neuroscience, Jail and Prison Conditions, Working with Experts, and Risk Assessment. Chapters are written by academics, mental health experts and criminal defense lawyers. In the introduction, Elizabeth writes that "This is the resource I wish I had had many years ago."

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Families' Guide to Working with a Criminal Defense Lawyer

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​Click the link below to listen to Elizabeth Kelley's presentation on The Arc of New Jersey's Equal Justice Talks webinar:

"Working with Families as a Defense Attorney for a Client with IDD" (March 19, 2021)

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Representing People with Autism Spectrum Disorders 

The reason for compiling the expert opinions in Representing People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Lawyers is two-fold: first, there is a growing recognition that people with ASD are involved in the criminal justice system and need vigorous, informed advocacy; and two, that there is a need for practical, easily digestible information for lawyers.
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If you are a criminal defense lawyer, it is inevitable that you are going to represent someone on the Autism Spectrum. Indeed, the Center for Disease Control estimates that one in 59 children are on the spectrum. And because Autism is a lifelong condition, these children will become adults on the spectrum.

But what is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), how will you recognize it in a client, why is it relevant to the criminal justice system, and why do people with ASD get ensnared in the criminal justice system?

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