BMC Medicine has published an article by Emma Woodhouse, Jack Hollingdale, Lisa Davies, Zainab Al-Attar, Susan Young, Luke P. Vinter, Kwaku Agyemang, Carla Bartlett, Colleen Berryessa, Eddie Chaplin, Quinton Deeley, Ian Freckelton, Felicity Gerry, Gisli Gudjonsson, Katie Maras, Michelle Mattison, Jane McCarthy, Richard Mills, Peter Misch, David Murphy & Clare Allely that outlines ‘a practical approach’ to the ‘Identification and support of autistic individuals within the UK Criminal Justice system’ from a ‘professional consensus with input from lived experience’ perspective.
Autism is a condition that is widely missed or misidentified and research shows that it has impacts on individual’s ‘journeys through the Criminal Justice System’. This article concludes that much greater attention must be given to autistic people navigating the Criminal Justice System.
