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Vulnerability Created by Legal Capacity Denials

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This chapter will explore the vulnerability that is created by legal capacity denial. It will discuss the evidence that demonstrates that decision-making denial is profoundly disempowering and leaves people without tools for protecting themselves from abuse and marginalisation (Winick 1995; Ryan and Deci 2017). It will explore financial, physical and sexual abuse that can occur as a result of this vulnerability (Sobsey and Doe 1991; Acierno et al. 2010; Dunn 2010).

Portions of this chapter are drawn from Arstein-Kerslake (2019).

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