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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America - Edelman, Peter
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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 ...

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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America 2019, New Press

ISBN-13: 9781620975480

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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America 2017, New Press

ISBN-13: 9781620971635

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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America 2017, Brilliance Audio

ISBN-13: 9781543628159

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