Involuntary admission to psychiatric hospitals and the criminal justice system

· Gooding, P. (2017) A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy. Supported Decision-making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

· Minkowitz, T. (2022) Disability-based Systems of Incarceration and Control. Available here.

· United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2022) Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation, Including in Emergencies. CRPD/C/5. Available here.

· World Health Organisation (2021) Guidance on Community Mental Health Services: Promoting Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches. Available here. 

Psychiatric diagnoses

• Boyle, M. and Johnstone, L. (2020) A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework. An Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis. Monmouth: PCCS Books Ltd.
• Davies, J. (2021) Sedated. How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis. London: Atlantic Books.
• Johnstone, L. (2022) A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis. 2nd rev. edn. Monmouth: PCCS Books Ltd.
• Watson, J. (ed.) (2020) We are the Change-Makers. Monmouth: PCCS Books Ltd.
• Watson, J. (ed.) (2019) Drop the Disorder. Monmouth: PCCS Books Ltd.

Psychiatric drugs

• Moncrieff, J. (2020) A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs. The Truth About How They Work and How to Come Off Them. 2nd rev. edn. Monmouth: PCCS Books Ltd.

Socio-economic deprivation

• Clifford, E. (2020) The War on Disabled People. Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe. London: Zed Books Ltd.
• O’Hara, M. (2020) The Shame Game. Overcoming the Toxic Poverty Narrative. Bristol: Policy Press.

Hate crime

• Carr, S. et al. (2019) ‘ “Keeping control”. A user-led exploratory study of mental health service user experiences of targeted violence and abuse in the context of adult safeguarding in England’, Health Soc Care Community, 00, pp.1-12. Available here.

Disabled people and the coronavirus pandemic

• Liberation’s response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s call for submissions about the impact of coronavirus on people with ‘protected characteristics’ under the Equality Act 2010 and steps taken to address it. You can access our response here.
• The Joint Statement from the Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities about Disabled people’s rights during the Covid pandemic.

The Sustainable Development Goals

• A copy of the Goals is available here.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

• You can find a copy of the UNCRPD here.