Overview
- Applies a new model social analytic jurisprudence
- Provides an interdisciplinary perspective
- Contributors are prominent legal scholars and social scientists
- Covers often overlooked problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Disability and Discrimination
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About this book
Two things are certain in the contemporary workplace: the aging of employees, and negative attitudes toward them - especially those with disabilities—by younger colleagues and supervisors. Yet related phenomena seem less clear: how do negative stereotypes contribute to discrimination on the job? And how are these stereotypes perceived in legal proceedings?
Bringing theoretical organization to an often unfocused literature, Disability and Aging Discrimination offers research in these areas at the same level of rigor as research into racial and gender discrimination. The book applies Social Analytic Jurisprudence, a framework for testing legal assumptions regarding behavior, and identifies controversies and knowledge gaps in age-discrimination and disability law. Chapters provide historical background or present-day context for the prevalence of age and disability prejudices, and shed light on the psychosocial concepts that must be understood, in addition to medical considerations, to make improvements in legal standards and workplace policy. Among the topics covered:
• Applying Social Analytic Jurisprudence to age and disability discrimination.
• The psychological origins and social pervasiveness of ageism.
• Growing older, working more: the boomer generation on the job.
• Limitations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• Disability and procedural fairness in the workplace.
• Cross-cultural perspectives on stigma.
The first volume of its kind, Disability and Aging Discrimination is essential reading for researchers, forensic and rehabilitation psychologists/psychiatrists, and those involved in the well-being of older and disabled workers.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Deal with discrimination based on physical disability or on aging. … this is a terrific book … . Disability and Aging Discrimination would be very useful to anyone working on issues related to disability, especially to social and … clinical psychologists; researchers concerned with psychology and the law; and lawyers concerned with the issues covered in the book. It would also be good if judges were to read this book to have a better understanding of the issues involved in cases involving aging or disability.” (Russell Eisenman, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 56 (19), May, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disability and Aging Discrimination
Book Subtitle: Perspectives in Law and Psychology
Editors: Richard L. Wiener, Steven L. Willborn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6293-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6292-8
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9888-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6293-5
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 270
Topics: Law and Psychology, Aging, Psychiatry