Cripping criminal in/justice practices

Ableism is entrenched within criminology, yet it has historically remained effaced. Noting the paradigm shift within disability studies - where the gaze is moving from the 'problem' of the disabled bodymind towards abled/ableist normativity - criminologists have started to focus on the ways that abledness and ableism create problems for disabled people, and in ways that pathologise disabled people while simultaneously reifying the abled norm. In previous work with Nicole L. Asquith, we named this project 'crip criminology'. This chapter continues my engagements with this scholarship, and particularly in relation to two ableist practices: the police (or Miranda) warning and the indefinite detention of disabled/mad people. I interrogate each of these practices, identifying the dis/ableist dimensions contained within them, and crip them to imagine alternative ways of doing and knowing. Central to the unfolding argument is an abolitionist framework that seeks to imagine the world differently and a rethinking of arguments previously made in 'cripping criminology'.