Injustice, Inc.

How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39605-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 352 g

An unflinching exposé 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 America's 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hatcher, Daniel L.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel L. Hatcher is Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore's Civil Advocacy Clinic and author of The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens. A former Maryland Legal Aid and Children's Defense Fund attorney, he has long been a scholar, advocate, and teacher on poverty and justice.