Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
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In Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America, Peter Edelman writes about the stunning war America is currently a part of against the poor. Edelman argues that poverty and crime are not cause and effect, meaning that you can be affected by the other if you are affected by one. Despite this belief, local and state governments don’t happen to see it this same way.
As a result, governments promote laws banishing or severely punishing the poor, which inevitably pushes them outside of the system and into a world filled with drugs and crime.
Not a Crime to Be Poor is the wake-up call Americans need to realize how the government has been so deeply rooted with the concept of criminalizing poverty and the prison industrial complex that has impacted millions of lives.
Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center.
Peter Edelman
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and served in President Bill Clinton’s administration. He is the author of So Rich, So Poor (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C.
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