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Author Hatcher, Daniel L., author.

Title Injustice, Inc. : how America's justice system commodifies children and the poor / Daniel L. Hatcher.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.973 HATCHER c.9781  Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.973 HA    Check Shelf
Description xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Crumbling foundations of justice -- Juvenile courts monetizing child removals -- Judicial child support factory -- Prosecuting the poor for profit -- The probation business -- Policing and profiting from the poor -- Bodies in the beds : the business of jailing children and the poor -- Racialized harm of the injustice enterprise -- Conclusion.
Summary "In Injustice, Inc., Daniel L. Hatcher exposes how justice systems are harnessing America's history of racial and economic inequality into revenue-generating operations. Courts, prosecutors, probation, policing departments, and detention facilities are trading away ethics and justice to churn vulnerable children and adults into an unconstitutional factory enterprise. These justice institutions are entering contracts to make money removing children from their homes, monetizing harm from juvenile delinquency, child welfare and child support proceedings, extorting fines and fees, collaborating with private debt collectors, enforcing unpaid child labor, seizing property, incentivizing arrests and evictions, maximizing occupancy in detention and 'treatment' centers, and more. Hatcher details the disproportionately racialized harm and unconstitutionality of the injustice enterprise, and calls for opened eyes to our justice system failings--to walk a better path toward instilling truth into the words 'Equal Justice Under Law'"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- Economic aspects.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Corrupt practices. (OCoLC)fst00883259
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00883265
Genre/Form Informational works.
Other Form: Online version: Hatcher, Daniel L. Injustice, Inc. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023] 9780520386693 (DLC) 2022030860
ISBN 9780520386679 hardcover
0520386671 hardcover
9780520396050 paperback
0520396057 paperback
9780520386693 electronic publication
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