
Containment and Condemnation
Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor
David Ray Papke(Author)
Michigan State University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2019
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-1-61186-309-3 (ISBN)
Description
The populations of American cities have always included poor people, but the predicament of the urban poor has worsened over time. Their social capital, that is, the connections and organizations that traditionally enabled them to form communities, has shredded. Economically comfortable Americans have come to increasingly care less about the plight of the urban poor and to think of them in terms of "us and them." Considered lazy paupers in the early nineteenth century, the urban poor came to be seen as a violent criminal "underclass" by the end of the twentieth. Living primarily in the nation's deindustrialized inner cities and making up nearly 15 percent of the population, today's urban poor are oppressed people living in the midst of American affluence. This book examines how law works for, against, and with regard to the urban poor, with "law" being understood broadly to include not only laws but also legal proceedings and institutions. Law is too complicated and variable to be seen as simply a club used to beat down the urban poor, but it does work largely in negative ways for them. An essential text for both law students and those drawn to areas of social justice, Containment and Condemnation shows how law helps create, expand, and perpetuate contemporary urban poverty.
Reviews / Votes
"In our urban law clinic, we see our poor neighbors imprisoned, stigmatized, defrauded, and drained of every resource they somehow manage to obtain. In Containment and Condemnation, David Ray Papke thoroughly and convincingly argues that this suffering is not unique to either our community or our era, nor is it an accident. To remedy this systemic injustice, we must first understand its source, and Papke's book provides a troubling but necessary diagnosis: far too often, the law itself is an agent of oppression of the urban poor."-FRAN QUIGLEY, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic, Indiana University McKinney School of Law
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
545 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-309-3 (9781611863093)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
David Ray Papke is Professor of Law at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Labeling the Urban Poor as Criminals
Chapter 2. No Place to Call Home
Chapter 3. Channeling Family Life
Chapter 4. Marketplace Exploitation
Chapter 5. Health Inequity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Labeling the Urban Poor as Criminals
Chapter 2. No Place to Call Home
Chapter 3. Channeling Family Life
Chapter 4. Marketplace Exploitation
Chapter 5. Health Inequity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index