Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
By Peter Edelman.
Description
Awarded Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism AwardsFinalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book AwardNamed one of the 10 books to read after you've read Evicted” by the Milwaukee Journal SentinelA powerful investigation into the ways the United States has addressed poverty. . . . Lucid and troubling.”Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted, in The Chronicle of Higher Education A nationally known expert on poverty shows how not having money has been criminalized and shines a light on lawyers, activists, and...
ISBN(s)
1620971631, 9781620971635