Book contents
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
- Part II Care As a Smokescreen
- 4 Prosecuting Poverty
- 5 Deepening Poverty and Degrading Justice
- Part III Criminalized Care
- Part IV Rejecting Criminalization and Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Punishment and Care
- Index
4 - Prosecuting Poverty
from Part II - Care As a Smokescreen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
Book contents
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
- Part II Care As a Smokescreen
- 4 Prosecuting Poverty
- 5 Deepening Poverty and Degrading Justice
- Part III Criminalized Care
- Part IV Rejecting Criminalization and Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Punishment and Care
- Index
Summary
This chapter begins the book’s focus on the prosecutions themselves by asking and answering some basic questions: Who was prosecuted, who was not prosecuted, and did the legislature accomplish its purported aim to use prosecution to target mothers who gave birth to infants with NAS?
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- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care , pp. 85 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022