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Not a crime to be poor : the criminalization of poverty in America Peter Edelman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York The New Press 2017Description: xix, 293 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781620971635 (hc : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • HV 95 EDE 23
LOC classification:
  • HV95 .E27 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- The criminalization of poverty -- Ferguson is everywhere : twenty-first-century century debtors' prisons -- Fighting back : the advocates and their work -- Money bail -- The criminalization of mental illness -- Child support : criminalizing poor fathers -- Criminalizing public benefits -- Poverty, race, and discipline in schools : go directly to jail -- Crime-free housing ordinances and the criminalization of homelessness -- The real solution: end poverty -- Taking criminal justice reform seriously -- Turning the coin over : ending poverty as we know it -- Acknowledgments.
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks HV<br>Social pathology. Social and<br>public welfare. Criminology HV 95 EDE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 106927
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Introduction -- The criminalization of poverty -- Ferguson is everywhere : twenty-first-century century debtors' prisons -- Fighting back : the advocates and their work -- Money bail -- The criminalization of mental illness -- Child support : criminalizing poor fathers -- Criminalizing public benefits -- Poverty, race, and discipline in schools : go directly to jail -- Crime-free housing ordinances and the criminalization of homelessness -- The real solution: end poverty -- Taking criminal justice reform seriously -- Turning the coin over : ending poverty as we know it -- Acknowledgments.

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