Disability criminalization occurs when individuals are exposed to criminal legal system involvement-whether stops, arrests, detention, discipline, and punishment for engaging in behaviors, norms, and conduct linked to, or caused by, their disabilities. This Article provides a short primer on disability criminalization. It defines the concept before turning to key sites where disability criminalization occurs. The Article concludes with a discussion of Critical Disability Studies and how that discipline may be used by advocates as a vehicle for contesting disability criminalization.