Injustice, Inc. (eBook)

How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

Daniel L. Hatcher (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
256 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38669-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An unflinching expose of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty Injustice, Inc. exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit Americas history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. With searing legal analysis, Daniel L. Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments, and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations. Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and treatment centers, and more. Injustice, Inc. underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.

Inhalt

Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice 
2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals 
3. Judicial Child Support Factory 
4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit 
5. The Probation Business 
6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor 
7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor 
8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise 
Conclusion 

Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American state and local courts • child support debt • criminalization of poverty • Family court system • for profit prisons • foster care • juvenile justice system • legal advocates • Ohio juvenile courts • Reform • Social Welfare • Social Work
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38669-8 / 0520386698
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38669-3 / 9780520386693