Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy A. Bach
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781108474832
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47483-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / General, Family Law, Legal aspects of criminology, Medical & healthcare law, Medical and healthcare law, Law & society, Criminology: legal aspects, Law and society, sociology of law