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Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care (Hardcover)
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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. In
Prosecuting 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, and humane, 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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