Not a crime to be poor : the criminalization of poverty in America
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Not a crime to be poor : the criminalization of poverty in America
New Press, 2019
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
Note
"First published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2017" -- T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors' prisons of the twenty-first century.
by "Nielsen BookData"