Overview
Finalist for the American Bar Associationās 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the 10 books to read after you've read Evicted” by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A powerful investigation into the ways the United States has addressed poverty. . . . Lucid and troubling.”
Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, in The Chronicle of Higher Education
A nationally known expert on poverty shows how not having money has been criminalized and shines a light on lawyers, activists, and policy makers working for a more humane approach
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.
This book title, Not a Crime to Be Poor (The Criminalization of Poverty in America), ISBN: 9781620971635, by Peter Edelman, published by The New Press (October 31, 2017) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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