Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
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Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

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Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

About this book

At the height of the opiate epidemic, Tennessee lawmakers made it a crime for a pregnant woman to transmit narcotics to a fetus. They promised that charging new mothers with this crime would help them receive the treatment and support they often desperately need. InProsecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care, Wendy Bach describes the law's actual effect through meticulous examination of the cases of 120 women who were prosecuted for this crime. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data, Bach demonstrates that both prosecuting 'fetal assault', and institutionalizing the all-too-common idea that criminalization is a road to care, lead at best to clinically dangerous and corrupt treatment, and at worst, and far more often, to an insidious smokescreen obscuring harsh punishment.Urgent, instructive, andhumane, this retelling demands we stop criminalizing care and instead move towards robust and respectful systems that meet the real needs of families in poor communities.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781108474832
eBook ISBN
9781108606882
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
  10. Part II Care As a Smokescreen
  11. Part III Criminalized Care
  12. Part IV Rejecting Criminalization and Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Punishment and Care
  13. Index