What Is Ableism?

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Ableism is discrimination against people with disabilities, including the expression of hate for people with disabilities, denial of accessibility, rejection of disable applicants for housing and jobs, and institutionalized discrimination in the form of benefits systems designed to keep people with disabilities in poverty. Throughout the years, people with disabilities are faced the act of oppression. People with disability is viewed by society with a negative attitude and they are one of the last groups whose equal rights have been recognized. One of the main reason why the population displays negative attitudes toward disabled people because people lack a general knowledge about disability and disabled people’s needs. People with disabilities
Throughout the years, people with disabilities faced the act of oppression. Before the 1800’s, people with disabilities were perceived as evil and possessed by the devil or were being punished for a prior sin. Consequently, the people with disabilities were cast aside, left to died, or were tortured and killed (“History of Ableism,” n.d.). During the 1800’s the shift in advances in the field of science changed the American’s views. As a result, disabled people were hidden away in family homes, mental institutions or schools for the blind or deaf and if they were not hidden, they worked as performers in traveling circuses (“Ableism,” n.d.). The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s helps bring attention to the rights of people with disabilities. However, Ableism is still a current problem in today society. Many people continue to treat people with disabilities as they are not smart and capable as non-disable people (“Ableism,” n.d.). In the following, Ableism will be discussed. In addition, Ableism will be examined from the context of how they are perceived in society at large, viewed in the criminal justice system, represented in society, effects the views have on the criminal justice process, victims of crime are served, and oppression relating to

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