Injustice, Inc. - How Americas Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

"Once again, Daniel Hatcher powerfully exposes how government systems operate an extractive poverty industry motivated by profit rather than justice. This eye-opening book is essential for understanding carceral system mechanics and for working to halt them."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

"A powerful book that shows how foster care and justice systems have been turned into for-profit enterprises wherein companies and governments alike grab revenue and squeeze needy children and families."—Peter Edelman, author of Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
"In the spirit of The Jungle, Injustice, Inc. is an excoriating revelation. Anyone with a beating heart will be touched, and hopefully energized to act, as a result of reading the wrenching wrongs described in this book."—Eileen D. Gambrill, University of California, Berkeley

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 
2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 
3. Judicial Child Support Factory 
4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 
5. The Probation Business 
6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 
7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 
8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise 
Conclusion 

Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

About the author

Daniel L. Hatcher is Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore's Civil Advocacy Clinic and author of The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens. A former Maryland Legal Aid and Children's Defense Fund attorney, he has long been a scholar, advocate, and teacher on poverty and justice.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel L. Hatcher, Hatcher Daniel L.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2023
• EAN: 9780520386679
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38667-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, LAW / Family Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, Social Work, Social welfare & social services, Family Law, Social welfare and social services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Housing and homelessness, Criminal law: procedure and offences