Vulnerable Populations Series
Judicial Roundtable – Open to Judges and Justice of the Peace Only
Program Chair: Justice K. Barnes, Ontario Superior Court
Session Title: Brain Injury: Barriers to Legal Participation amid Social Inequities in the Criminal Justice System
Section I Title: Traumatic Brain Injury and Social-Legal Cognition (Joseph Wszalek)
When: October 28, 2024, 2024, 1.00 pm Eastern to 2.00 pm Eastern
Learning objectives:
1. Recognize TBI as a neurodisability.
A. Understand a biopsychosocial model of neurodisability.
B. Understand "functional limitations".
2. Recognize the effect of TBI on social-legal cognition.
A. Understand cognitive communication limitations following TBI.
B. Understand social-legal cognitive behavioral limitations following TBI .
Section II Title: Traumatic Brain Injury, Complex Needs and Associated Challenges (Flora Matheson & Arthur McLuhan)
When: November 13, 2024, 2024, 1.00 pm Eastern to 2.00 pm Eastern.
See below for information on Research currently underway by the session presenters on the Impacts of Acquired Brain Injury on accused persons.
Learning objectives:
1. Understand the complex nature of the social and health issues related to justice-involved persons in Ontario.
2. Understand the challenges of court-mandated conditions for people with brain injury.
3. Understand how communication intermediaries can improve equity in the criminal process for people with brain injury.
Biographies:
Flora Matheson, PhD, is a Sociologist and the Endowed Chair in Homelessness, Housing, and Health and leads the Justice & Equity Lab at St. Michael’s Hospital. As a Sociologist, she implements and evaluates community-embedded solutions to reduce social and health inequities for people experiencing justice-involvement with a focus on people with brain injury.
Dr. Arthur McLuhan, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto. A sociologist of culture and interaction, his research focuses on the patterns of interaction that shape involvement, identity, and inequality. One of his current projects is a study exploring the challenges of community supervision conditions among people with a history of brain injury.
Joseph Wszalek, JD, PhD, is the founder of the Center for Neurolaw and Equity, a California-based project focusing on transformative research and advocacy at the intersection of neuroscience and the law. A neuroscientist and neuroethicist by training, his research and expertise focus on neurodisability, language and communication, and social-legal cognition.
The speakers will describe research they are conducting on the effects of Acquired Brain Injury on Criminal Justice Participants. Judges will be invited to participate. There is no obligation or expectation that any member of the judiciary will participate in such a survey. As you will expect that decision is up to each judge.
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