Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America - Peter Edelman
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Cops
Ferguson
Injustice
Justice
Law
Police
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Read by Eric G. Dove
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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
In addition to exposing racially biased policing, the Justice Department’s Ferguson Report exposed to the world a system of fines and fees levied for minor crimes in Ferguson, Missouri, that, when they proved too expensive for Ferguson’s largely poor, African American population, resulted in jail sentences for thousands of people.
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.
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| Creation Date: | Sun, 05 Jun 2022 07:49:03 +0200 |
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| 01 - Ferguson Is Everywhere Twenty-First-Century Debtors Prisons.mp3 21.81 MBs | |
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| 02 - Fighting Back The Advocates and Their Work.mp3 28.36 MBs | |
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| 03 - Money Bail.mp3 21.96 MBs | |
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| 04 - The Criminalization of Mental Illness.mp3 23.67 MBs | |
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| 05 - Child Support Criminalizing Poor Fathers.mp3 9 MBs | |
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| 07 - Poverty, Race, and Discipline in Schools Go Directly to Jail.mp3 20.08 MBs | |
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This post has 4 comments
May 27th, 2022
I’m tickled that the regular folks who come here to call every bit of criticism they don’t like socialism or communism are absolutely silent when real evidence-based stuff like this gets posted.
May 27th, 2022
Nope. Not a crime to be poor. However, shoplifting, assault, battery, robbery, rape, larceny, rioting, etc. are crimes; Even if you’re poor. Pretty simple concept.
May 28th, 2022
@chaddington2: you summoned the racist trolls with that remark…
June 1st, 2022
I’m unfamiliar with the author, but I tend to agree that some of the fruit of our democratic republic hangs a bit too high for the common man to reach, especially when it comes to rights such as innocent until proven guilty. The problem is that what we’re dealing with is a super-powered unapproachable dictatorial government bureaucracy, which is unrelated to free-market capitalism or private ownership of goods, except that their counter would necessitate even more power to the government. Natural rights speaks of liberty, not communism. Ownership of one’s labor is just, and as natural as being innocent until proven guilty. Both communism and abusive law enforcement involve the suspension of natural rights.
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