Not A Crime To Be Poor
The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Hardback
1 pages
978-1-62097-163-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 behaviour 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.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Not a Crime to Be Poor:"A hard-hitting argument for reform. . . . An impassioned call for an `overarching movement' for justice."
?Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Peter Edelman's So Rich, So Poor:
"Peter Edelman brings blinding lucidity to a subject usually mired in prejudice and false preconceptions."
-Barbara Ehrenreich
"If there is one essential book on the great tragedy of poverty and inequality in America, this is it. Peter Edelman is masterful on the issue. With a real-world grasp of politics and the economy, Edelman makes a brilliantly compelling case for what can and must be done."
-Bob Herbert
"A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field."
-Kirkus Reviews
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-62097-163-5 (9781620971635)
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Person
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and served in President Bill Clinton's administration. He is the author of So Rich, So Poor (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C.