As former staffer to Robert F. Kennedy and current Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, Ferguson is everywhere in America today. Through money bail systems, fees and fines, strictly enforced laws and regulations against behaviour including trespassing and public urination that largely affect the homeless, and the substitution of prisons and jails for the mental hospitals that have traditionally served the impoverished, in one of the richest countries on Earth we have effectively made it a crime to be poor.
- ISBN10 1620971631
- ISBN13 9781620971635
- Publish Date 16 November 2017 (first published 31 October 2017)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The New Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1
- Language English