Not A Crime To Be Poor

Autori

• Peter Edelman

Parametri

• Diritto
• Politica
• Saggistica
• Scienze politiche & Politica
• Scienze sociali

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In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors' prisons of the twenty-first century.

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Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2019

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