Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America Contributor(s): Edelman, Peter (Author), Dove, Eric G. (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1543628141 ISBN-13: 9781543628142 Publisher: Brilliance Audio
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.25" W x 6.75" L |
Features: Unabridged |
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Publisher Description: In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department's Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson's largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people. 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 regulations against behavior including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished, in one of the richest countries on Earth we have effectively made it a crime to be poor. Edelman, who famously resigned from the administration of Bill Clinton over welfare "reform," connects the dots between these policies and others including school discipline in poor communities, child support policies affecting the poor, public housing ordinances, addiction treatment, and the specter of public benefits fraud to paint a picture of a mean-spirited, retributive system that seals whole communities into inescapable cycles of poverty. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edelman, Peter: - Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and served in President Bill Clinton's administration. He is the author of So Rich, So Poor (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C. |
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