Disabled people are subject to disability laws – such as guardianship, mental health and mental capacity legislation – which only apply to them, and which enable legal violence on the basis of disability (‘disability-specific lawful violence’). While public health laws during the COVID-19 pandemic enabled coercive interventions in the general population, disabled people have additionally been subject to the continued, and at times intensified, operation of disability laws and their lawful violence. In this article we engage with scholarship on law, temporality and disability to explore the amplification of disability-specific lawful violence during the pandemic. We show how this amplification has been made possible through the folding of longstanding assumptions about disabled people – as at risk of police contact; as vulnerable, unhealthy and contaminating – into the immediate crisis of the pandemic; ignoring structural drivers of oppression, and responsibilising disabled people for their circumstances and the violence they experience.

残疾人受残疾法律的约束——例如监护权、心理健康和心理能力立法——这些法律仅适用于他们，并允许基于残疾的合法暴力（“特定于残疾的合法暴力”）。尽管在 COVID-19 大流行期间的公共卫生法能够对一般人群进行强制干预，但残疾人也受到持续的、有时是加剧的残疾法及其合法暴力的影响。在本文中，我们与法律、时间性和残疾相关的学术研究探讨了在大流行期间特定于残疾的合法暴力的放大。我们展示了如何通过折叠关于残疾人的长期假设使这种放大成为可能——因为他们有与警察接触的风险；作为脆弱，不健康和污染——进入大流行的直接危机；忽视压迫的结构性驱动因素，并让残疾人对其所处的环境和所经历的暴力负责。