Wendy A. Bach

Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a detailed description of the devastating prosecutions of 120 women for 'fetal assault,' Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care provides a window into the ways in which, in poor communities, access to care is linked to punishment systems. The book is essential reading on U.S. poverty policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781108465533
• ISBN-10: 1108465536
• Artikelnr.: 63510265

Autorenporträt

Wendy A. Bach is a Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee where she teaches primarily in the clinical program. Over the last 25 years, first as a practicing public-interest lawyer, and for the last 17 years as a Law Professor, Bach has represented poor clients in the courts and systems highlighted in Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care. She is a nationally recognized scholar in the field of poverty law and has published several law review articles on the relationship between social support and punishment.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Creating a crime to create care
2. Framing and reframing
3. Laying the Ground
4. Punishing poverty
5. Deepening poverty and degrading justice
6. The Path In: From healthcare to child welfare to criminal systems
7. Criminalization as a road to care and the price you pay
8. Corrupting care
9. A path forward.