Learning Disability in Criminal Justice: Challenges and Support

LEARNING DISABILITY IN
CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Person whom having learning disability refer to heterogeneous group of disorders facing
many difficulties such as listening, reasoning, reading, mathematical, speaking, writing abilities
and can come under criminal justice system (CJS). If they are contrast with general public, they
found several difficulties to express themselves which is a negative impact on others. The
specific disorders as learning disabilities are hearing disorder, dyslexia, speech disorder, non
verbal learning disabilities. The report cover the discussion which is about learning disabilities in
the criminal justice (Johnston, 2021).
MAIN BODY
A learning disability is a disorder which started before adulthood and reduced the ability to
learn tasks, understand complex information, lose of social interaction which affect on
development. This means they are living their lives independently and they need support to carry
out daily life activities. There have been evaluation that 20% adults are having learning disability
which are known to learning disability service. Provide them effective ingress to health and
justice services by giving ability of forensic practitioners ,CJS clinicians and other staffs. The
CJS term stand for police, court, probation and prison. They deal the person that breaks the law
known as offenders. But sometimes individuals are taken to prison for breaking laws then they
have to follow legal procedure. Due to this person get confused and does not recognize what is
wrong with them and unfortunately they committed crime and they did not understand why they
get arrested by police. Then person undergo interrogation by the police, but the person do not
understand why these happening to them, so police should explain to the other staff that they
finds difficulties. Staff come and examine the person is actually having learning disabilities or
not (Lindsay and Taylor, 2018).
Persons who have learning disabilities have chances to get arrested for breaking the rule.
Due to which they have to go to criminal justice system. Meaning of criminal justice system is
police, court, prison and probation. Those have this issue may find things difficult in
concentration, in remembering things and in attention, because of this they have to face many
issues in any police interviews or in any forensic interviews. They can get confuse in many
things such as dates, times and in remembering sequence of events. So those have learning
disabilities and learning difficulties in criminal justice system requires outer support in number
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