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

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Summary
As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulatio... Read more
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 : crim... Read more
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xix, 293 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher
New Press 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 362.5 EDE in Adult Non-fiction Available

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