“People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) often face unique and serious disadvantages when involved with the juvenile or criminal justice systems. For example, the causes of behavior that may attract police attention, and the responses needed to best resolve a situation, may be quite different when a person has autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, a dual diagnosis, or fetal alcohol syndrome, rather than a mental illness without I/DD or no disability at all…”

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