Open research behind closed doors:
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 measures on persons
with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities deprived
of liberty
Authors
Nora Katona
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (Austria)
Elisabeth Mayer
External consultant for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and
Human Rights
National partners
Associazione Antigone (Italy)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (Austria)
Selbst- und Interessensvertretung zum Maßnahmenvollzug (Austria)
Strafvollzugsarchiv (Germany)
Layout Studio Gilani / Graphics Natalia Bueno
Acknowledgements
The project team would like to thank all experts, relatives and
persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in preventive
custodial mea-sures and detention who shared their experience in
surveys or interviews a nd those who participated in the national and
international workshops held in the framework of this project. We
greatly appreciate their engagement and commitment to raise
awareness on the situation of persons with psychosocial and intellectual
abilities who are deprived of liberty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moreover, we would like to thank Alessio Scandurra, Christine
Graebsch, Giuliana Monina and Melanie Schorsch for their
contributions to this overview.
This project was funded by
OIS Enrichment Fund of the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft
www.ois.lbg.ac.at
March 2021