{"product_id":"injustice-inc-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children-and-the-poor-hardcover","title":"Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel L. Hatcher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInjustice, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the ways in which justice systems exploit America's history of racial and economic inequality to generate revenue on a massive scale. With searing legal analysis, Daniel L. Hatcher uncovers how courts, prosecutors, police, probation departments, and detention facilities are abandoning ethics to churn vulnerable children and adults into unconstitutional factory-like operations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialized harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatized institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivize arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labor, maximize occupancy in detention and \"treatment\" centers, and more. \u003ci\u003eInjustice, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Once again, Daniel Hatcher powerfully exposes how government systems operate an extractive poverty industry motivated by profit rather than justice. This eye-opening book is essential for understanding carceral system mechanics and for working to halt them.\"--Dorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eTorn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A powerful book that shows how foster care and justice systems have been turned into for-profit enterprises wherein companies and governments alike grab revenue and squeeze needy children and families.\"--Peter Edelman, author of \u003ci\u003eNot a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In the spirit of \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInjustice, Inc\u003c\/i\u003e. is an excoriating revelation. Anyone with a beating heart will be touched, and hopefully energized to act, as a result of reading the wrenching wrongs described in this book.\"--Eileen D. Gambrill, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel L. Hatcher\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore's Civil Advocacy Clinic and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens. \u003c\/i\u003eA former Maryland Legal Aid and Children's Defense Fund attorney, he has long been a scholar, advocate, and teacher on poverty and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 21, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52697063162163,"sku":"9780520386679","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QWhSOW9IUDZpYUhoNkhwdEhuTWx4Zz09.webp?v=1763128684","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/injustice-inc-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children-and-the-poor-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}