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Jill E. Adams, Melissa Mikesell AND DAMNED IF THEY DON'T: PROTOTYPE THEORIES TO END PUNITIVE POLICIES AGAINST PREGNANT PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY 18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 283 (Symposium, 2017) Introduction. 284 I. Damned If They Do and Damned If They Don't: How the Poor get Punished for Reproductive Decisions. 286 A. Cash Aid Recipients Who Bear Children. 287 B. Medicaid Patients Who Need Abortions. 289 C. People Who End Their Own Pregnancies. 292 II. The New Paradigm to Expand Access, Options, and Resources for Pregnant People Living in... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Michael Stamm BETWEEN A ROCK AND DISCRIMINATORY PLACE: HOW SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND MANDATORY MINIMUMS SHOULD BE EMPLOYED TO REDUCE POVERTY DISCRIMINATION IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 24 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 399 (Spring, 2017) Engraved into the United States Supreme Court Building are the words, Equal justice under law. For indigent defendants, this maxim is far from true. Indigent defendants experience discrimination at every stage of the criminal justice system because of their lower economic status. People living in poverty are arrested more often, receive... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Chanae L. Wood BLACK AND POOR: THE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES OF UTAH v. STRIEFF 30 Saint Thomas Law Review 68 (Fall, 2017) Suppose a nineteen-year-old Black male, Jason, decides to watch a late night movie with friends. The group of friends meet on the corner outside of the local convenience store. However, Jason arrives early. Out of habit, he paces back and forth, as he waits for the others to arrive. Two police officers, patrolling the area for drug activity, notice... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Meghan Looney Paresky CHANGING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT, AGAIN: REFORMING THE WELFARE REFORM ACT TO PROVIDE ALL DRUG FELONS ACCESS TO FOOD STAMPS 58 Boston College Law Review 1659 (November, 2017) Approximately half a million Americans are currently incarcerated for drug convictions at the state and federal level. President Clinton's 1996 enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) affects this enormous class of individuals by including a provision that places a lifetime ban on access... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Nantiya Ruan CORPORATE MASTERS & LOW-WAGE SERVANTS: THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF WORKERS IN POVERTY 24 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 103 (Fall, 2017) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 104 II. Poverty Governance as a Means of Social Control. 110 A Brief History of American Poverty Governance. 110 1. Poor Masters and Poorhouses: Early Colonial America. 110 2. Moralistic Campaigns to Improve Poor People: Nineteenth Century and Early Twentieth Century Poverty Policy. 114 3. Regulating the Poor... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Judge Lisa Foster (Ret.) INJUSTICE UNDER LAW: PERPETUATING AND CRIMINALIZING POVERTY THROUGH THE COURTS 33 Georgia State University Law Review 695 (Spring, 2017) In 1962, in a speech to the American Bar Association, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked, do . minorities or people who speak our language imperfectly . or those who are poor really receive the same protection before the courts as the rest of our citizens? [A]ll too often, he said, they do not. Today, our justice system is no longer... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Anthony V. Alfieri INNER-CITY ANTI-POVERTY CAMPAIGNS 64 UCLA Law Review 1374 (December, 2017) This Article offers a defense of outsider, legal-political intervention and community triage in inner-city anti-poverty campaigns under circumstances of widespread urban social disorganization, public and private sector neglect, and nonprofit resource scarcity. In mounting this defense, the Article revisits the roles of lawyers, nonprofit legal... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Jonathan Simon IS MASS INCARCERATION HISTORY? FROM THE WAR ON POVERTY TO THE WAR ON CRIME: THE MAKING OF MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA. BY ELIZABETH HINTON. CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016. 464 PAGES. $29.95 95 Texas Law Review 1077 (April, 2017) Introduction: The End of Mass Incarceration The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. Despite Hegel's ultimately reassuring premise, it never seemed inevitable that the emergence of mass incarceration as a proper historical subject would occur simultaneously with its institutional and political demise. History, as a... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara KAREN M. TANI, STATES OF DEPENDENCY: WELFARE, RIGHTS, AND AMERICAN GOVERNANCE, 1935-1972 (NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016). PP. XIII + 427. $34.99 (PAPERBACK). ISBN: 978-1-107-43408-0 57 American Journal of Legal History 257 (June, 2017) In this vigorously argued book, Karen Tani offers a revisionist history of the system of federally-funded poor relief put in place by the Social Security Act of 1935 and anchored in the Old Age Assistance and Aid to Dependent Children (later Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC) programs. In Tani's view this system was both... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Wendy A. Bach POOR SUPPORT / RICH SUPPORT: (RE)VIEWING THE AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE STATE 20 Florida Tax Review 495 (2017) Since at least the 1970s a variety of scholars have redefined the U.S. social welfare state to include not only traditional benefit programs (for example, Food Stamps and Social Security) but also a variety of tax benefits that are hidden or submerged forms of welfare for the wealthy. Including these benefits in the overall picture of U.S.... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Mary Madden , Michele Gilman , Karen Levy , Alice Marwick PRIVACY, POVERTY, AND BIG DATA: A MATRIX OF VULNERABILITIES FOR POOR AMERICANS 95 Washington University Law Review 53 (2017) This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the application of predictive analytics. On one hand, big data systems could reverse growing economic inequality by expanding access to opportunities for low-income people. On the other hand, big data could... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Sanford F. Schram REVISIONIST HISTORY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE NEOLIBERAL WELFARE STATE 52 Tulsa Law Review 599 (Spring, 2017) Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945 (Cambridge University Press 2015). Pp. 250. Hardcover $98.00. Paperback $33.99.9. Eva Bertram, The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015). Pp. 336. Hardcover $75.00. The welfare state as... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Louis S. Rulli SEIZING FAMILY HOMES FROM THE INNOCENT: CAN THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT PROTECT MINORITIES AND THE POOR FROM EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT IN CIVIL FORFEITURE? 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1111 (June, 2017) Civil forfeiture laws permit the government to seize and forfeit private property that has allegedly facilitated a crime without ever charging the owner with any criminal offense. The government extracts payment in kind--property-- and gives nothing to the owner in return, based upon a legal fiction that the property has done wrong. As such, the... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Amanda Arrington, Michael Markarian SERVING PETS IN POVERTY: A NEW FRONTIER FOR THE ANIMAL WELFARE MOVEMENT 18 Sustainable Development Law & Policy 40 (Fall, 2017) This article is dedicated to JC Ramos who meant so much to the Pets for Life (PFL) program. He not only inspired PFL to do more in the fight against injustice and discrimination, but he served his community with extreme dedication and compassion. There will never be another person like JC, and the PFL team was lucky to call him family. Most people... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Vicki Been, Leila Bozorg SPIRALING: EVICTIONS AND OTHER CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF HOUSING INSTABILITY EVICTED: POVERTY AND PROFIT IN THE AMERICAN CITY. BY MATTHEW DESMOND. NEW YORK, N.Y.: CROWN PUBLISHERS. 2016. PP. XI, 418. $28.00 130 Harvard Law Review 1408 (March, 2017) Our discussions about the nation's housing affordability crisis usually begin with challenges in the market: the population of renters is increasing in metropolitan areas across the United States, the supply of rental housing is not keeping pace, and the supply that does exist is increasingly priced out of reach for the typical renter. Changes in... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Cassandra Jones Havard THE COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT, BANKS, AND THE LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT INVESTMENT 26 Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law 415 (2017) I. Introduction. 415 II. Identifying Congruencies. 417 A. LIHTC and the CRA. 417 B. Affordable Housing Success. 418 1. CRA and the LIHTC Program. 418 2. CRA and Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs). 421 III. CRA and LIHTC. 423 A. Pricing. 424 B. Syndication. 425 C. Geography. 427 IV. Proposed Reforms. 430 A. Pricing. 430 B. Syndication. 431 C.... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
La Darien Harris THE CRIMINALIZATION OF SCHOOL CHOICE: PUNISHING THE POOR FOR THE INEQUITIES OF GEOGRAPHIC SCHOOL DISTRICTING 44 Journal of Legislation 306 (2017) The traditional mechanism for assigning students to a given public school relies heavily on place of residence. As a result, America's public schools vary widely in racial and socioeconomic diversity. We find that inner-city schools are densely populated with minorities and low-income students, whereas schools located in suburban districts are... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Khiara M. Bridges THE DESERVING POOR, THE UNDESERVING POOR, AND CLASS-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION 66 Emory Law Journal 1049 (2017) This Article is a critique of class-based affirmative action. It begins by observing that many professed politically conservative individuals have championed class-based affirmative action. However, it observes that political conservatism is not typically identified as an ideology that generally approves of improving the poor's well-being through... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Conor Arpey THE MULTIFACETED MANIFESTATIONS OF THE POOR DOOR: EXAMINING FORMS OF SEPARATION IN INCLUSIONARY HOUSING 6 American University Business Law Review 627 (2017) Introduction. 628 II. The Development of Inclusionary Housing Programs. 630 A. The MPDU Program's Legal and Demographic Context. 631 B. Federal Housing Discrimination Standards for Municipal Zoning Ordinances. 632 C. Statutory Changes to New York's 421-a Program. 637 III. Assessing the Viability of a Potential Disparate Impact Claim and the... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Kate Masur THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE, POLICE POWERS, AND THE RIGHTS OF FREE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT 57 American Journal of Legal History 238 (June, 2017) In addition to offering hilariously long lists of local regulations, The People's Welfare addresses some of the largest and most interesting questions in the field of U.S. history, for instance what Novak calls the fundamental tension in the coexistence of a heightened American rhetoric of individual liberty with a constant and historic readiness... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Stephen B. Bright THE RICHARD J. CHILDRESS MEMORIAL LECTURE 2016 KEYNOTE: THE CONTINUING DENIAL OF COUNSEL AND ASSEMBLY-LINE PROCESSING OF POOR PEOPLE ACCUSED OF CRIMES 61 Saint Louis University Law Journal 605 (Summer, 2017) My address today concerns the problem of poverty in our court system. There are many poor people with urgent, unmet legal needs who lack access to the courts and have no ability to even confer with a lawyer about their legal problems. I am going to discuss people in the criminal courts, but it is important to mention the people with civil legal... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Vanita Saleema Snow THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE JUSTICE GAP: INTEGRATING POVERTY LAW INTO THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM 37 Pace Law Review 642 (Spring, 2017) Once upon a time, not so long ago, a student entered law school with a commitment to change the world. The student quickly recognized that success in first-year classes required understanding the black letter law and applying the law to various scenarios that had little to do with social justice. During the second year, the student's... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Amy J. Cohen TRAUMA AND THE WELFARE STATE: A GENEALOGY OF PROSTITUTION COURTS IN NEW YORK CITY 95 Texas Law Review 915 (April, 2017) At least since the early twentieth century, informal specialized prostitution courts have tried to double as social welfare agencies. For this reason, prostitution courts illustrate in particularly explicit ways how public welfare administration and criminal court administration share similar ideas and practices and how these ideas and practices... 2017 Relevant (Poverty)
Anne M. Robertson BLOWING PAST MINNESOTA NICE: NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARISE TO UTILIZE DISPARATE-IMPACT THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TWIN CITIES LOW-INCOME HOUSING DISCRIMINATION LITIGATION 43 Mitchell Hamline Law Review 63 (2017) I. Introduction. 64 II. Housing Discrimination: What Legal Aid Sees in the Twin Cities. 67 III. The Supreme Court's 2015 Stamp of Approval for Fair-Housing Disparate-Impact Claims' Cognizability in Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. 69 A. New Jersey Legal Aid Defends Fair-Housing Rights for Low-... 2017  
Emily A. Benfer CONTAMINATED CHILDHOOD: HOW THE UNITED STATES FAILED TO PREVENT THE CHRONIC LEAD POISONING OF LOW-INCOME CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR 41 Harvard Environmental Law Review 493 (2017) Lead poisoning has plagued society for centuries, dating back to the Roman Empire. Children and adults exposed to the neurotoxin regularly experience an elevated risk for permanent brain damage, disability, and, at higher levels, death. Despite scientific evidence of the dangers of lead, the heavy metal was commonly used throughout civilization and... 2017  
Taifha N. Baker HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY AND LOW-INCOME LAW STUDENTS 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 123 (Fall, 2017) Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance. --Vernâ Myers, Esq., TED Talk presenter, nationally-recognized diversity expert specializing in law school and law firm diversity trainings, and Principal of Vernâ Myers Consulting Group, LLC. C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3124 I. Defining Terms: Minority and... 2017  
Philip C. Aka , Chidera V. Oku , Murna Habila PROMOTING RETIREMENT SECURITY FOR LOW-INCOME WORKERS IN ILLINOIS: AN ANALYSIS AND LESSONS FOR OTHER STATES 51 Akron Law Review 367 (2017) I. Introduction. 368 II. Defining Retirement Security and Low-Income Workers. 376 III. The Janus-Face Nature of Retirement (In)Security in Illinois and Its Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 378 A. Private-Sector Face. 379 B. Public-Sector Face. 383 C. Ramifications for Low-Income Workers. 389 IV. Six Saving Techniques for Promoting Retirement... 2017  
Sruti Swaminathan REACTION TO: WE CAN'T BREATHE: HOW TOP LAW SCHOOLS CAN RESUSCITATE AN INCLUSIVE CLIMATE FOR MINORITY & LOW-INCOME STUDENTS 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 153 (Fall, 2017) Taifha N. Baker powerfully uses her own experience as an African-American law student from a welfare-reliant household studying at a top law school to highlight the lack of institutional inclusivity that fosters a harmful environment for minority and low-income students. Baker's Note is unique in that it challenges institutions to not only increase... 2017  
Daniel L. Hatcher REMEMBERING ANTI-ESSENTIALISM: RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS STUDY AND RESULTING POLICY CONSIDERATIONS IMPACTING LOW-INCOME MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND CHILDREN 35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 239 (Summer, 2017) The Relationship Dynamics and Social Life Study (RDSL) is a new and important longitudinal study that examines the relationships, and the partners, of young unmarried women who become pregnant. One of the particularly concerning findings of the RDSL is that the relationships resulting in pregnancies were more likely to include intimate partner... 2017  
Camille Gear Rich RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN: FEMINIST AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY ALTERNATIVES TO EXISTING ANTI-POVERTY DISCOURSE 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 257 (Spring 2016) I. INTRODUCTION. 258 II. REFRAMING AND RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN. 264 A. Historical Relic or Current Reality? Understanding the Role of the Welfare Queen. 264 B. Charting A Way Forward: Reclaiming the Welfare Queen. 270 III. UNDERSTANDING THE WELFARE QUEEN: CONFERENCE PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS. 276 A. The Disciplinary Power of the Welfare Queen.... 2016 Most Relevant
Stephen B. Bright RIGGED: WHEN RACE AND POVERTY DETERMINE OUTCOMES IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS 14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 263 (Fall, 2016) A Pennsylvania newspaper recently reported that many people sentenced to death in that state since 2005 were represented by lawyers who were drug and alcohol addicts, had histories of mishandling cases or were convicted felons. Eighteen percent of those sentenced to death had been represented by lawyers who had been disciplined for professional... 2016 Most Relevant
Lyanne Prieto "SHOCKING THE CONSCIENCE" OR SUFFERING AS SCAPEGOATS?: WHY THE VERGARA OPINION MISINTERPRETED THE ROLE THAT TEACHERS AND TENURE PLAY IN DISADVANTAGING POOR AND MINORITY STUDENTS 17 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 85 (2016) Since the beginning of the 20 century, tenure laws have, in many states, operated as a staple of the American education system that have served to protect public school teachers from dismissal for arbitrary reasons. Tenure laws have been an important source of teachers' procedural rights by setting forth what is required of them in order to attain... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Reginald Leamon Robinson A DARK SECRET TOO SCANDALOUS TO CONFRONT: DID THE MOYNIHAN REPORT IMPLY THAT POOR BLACK CAREGIVERS' PARENTING STYLE AND CHILDHOOD CRUELTIES WERE STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH SELF-PERPETUATING PATHOLOGIES? 8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 103 (Spring, 2016) The resistance to seeing the pain of deprived neglected, or abused children has a long history. All psychopathology constitutes primary or secondary disorders of bonding or attachment and manifests itself as disorders of self- and/or interactional regulation. In 1965 or today, any existential murder of a child, especially in the earliest years of... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Raquel Smith A SEAT AT THE TABLE: CHANGING THE GOVERNING STRUCTURE OF LOW INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION TO REFLECT CIVIL RIGHTS VALUES AND FAIR HOUSING 6 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 193 (2016) The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is the largest existing program for the development of low-income affordable rental housing in the country. The program is administered by the United States Department of Treasury and the Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), federal agencies by statute that have regulatory and... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; Affiliated Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project AMERICA, ISLAM, AND CONSTITUTIONALISM: MUSLIM AMERICAN POVERTY AND THE MOUNTING POLICE STATE 31 Journal of Law and Religion 279 (November, 2016) The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Edited by Julianne Hammer and Omar Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 386. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521175524. On the Muslim Question. By Anne Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691157047. What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Khaled A. Beydoun BETWEEN INDIGENCE, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND ERASURE: POOR AND MUSLIM IN "WAR ON TERROR" AMERICA 104 California Law Review 1463 (December, 2016) Nearly half of the Muslim American population is interlocked between indigence and Islamophobia, or anti-Muslim animus. Of the estimated eight million Muslim Americans, 45 percent of this population earns a household income less than $30,000 per year. While this statistic clashes with pervasive stereotyping of Muslim Americans as middle class,... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Jonathan Oberman , Kendea Johnson BROKEN WINDOWS: RESTORING SOCIAL ORDER OR DAMAGING AND DEPLETING NEW YORK'S POOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR? 37 Cardozo Law Review 931 (February, 2016) On February 8, 2014, with the temperature below freezing, two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers performing a routine vertical patrol found Jerome Murdough, a homeless 56-year-old Marine veteran with a diagnosed history of mental illness, sleeping in a stairwell near the roof of an East Harlem housing project. Instead of taking him... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Jed Goodfellow CHAPTER 10 REGULATORY CAPTURE AND THE WELFARE OF FARM ANIMALS IN AUSTRALIA 53 IUS Gentium 195 (2016) Abstract Recent controversies over the treatment of animals within Australia's agricultural sector have raised questions over the adequacy of current governance and regulatory arrangements for farm animal welfare. Concerns have been expressed over perceived conflicts of interest on behalf of State and Federal Departments of Agriculture in... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Neil L. Sobol CHARGING THE POOR: CRIMINAL JUSTICE DEBT & MODERN-DAY DEBTORS' PRISONS 75 Maryland Law Review 486 (2016) Debtors' prisons should no longer exist. While imprisonment for debt was common in colonial times in the United States, subsequent constitutional provisions, legislation, and court rulings all called for the abolition of incarcerating individuals to collect debt. Despite these prohibitions, individuals who are unable to pay debts are now regularly... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
David N. Cassuto , Cayleigh Eckhardt DON'T BE CRUEL (ANYMORE): A LOOK AT THE ANIMAL CRUELTY REGIMES OF THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL WITH A CALL FOR A NEW ANIMAL WELFARE AGENCY 43 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 1 (2016) No man who has passed a month in the death cells believes in cages for beasts. --Ezra Pound (from the Pisan Cantos) In the United States and around the world, animals exploited for human use suffer cruel and needless harm. The group bearing the brunt of this exploitation--agricultural animals--is routinely exempted from the largely... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Nikita McMillian FROM LOVING MOTHER TO WELFARE QUEEN TO DRUG ADDICT? LEBRON v. SECRETARY OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND THE EVOLVING PUBLIC VIEW OF THE POOR AS A CLASS OF SUB-HUMANS WITH SUB-RIGHTS 35 Mississippi College Law Review 197 (2016) Don't Feed the Alligators! Those were the words that occupied the sign held by Florida's Congressional Representative John Mica during a 1995 House debate concerning welfare reform. Comparing welfare recipients to alligators, Representative Mica's sign exemplified how some in the public had come to perceive the poor as a class of dangerous... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Sarah Geraghty KEYNOTE REMARKS: HOW THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY HAS BECOME NORMALIZED IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE 21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 195 (Spring 2016) Thank you for the opportunity to be here today among such a distinguished group of scholars, advocates, and students. I am grateful to Christianna Kyriacou, Jessica Gingold, and others on the Michigan Journal of Race and Law for organizing this event. The subject of my talk today is how the criminalization of poverty has become normalized in... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Aneel L. Chablani LEGAL AID'S ONCE AND FUTURE ROLE FOR IMPACTING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY AND THE WAR ON THE POOR 21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 349 (Spring 2016) INTRODUCTION. 349 I. Poverty, Race, and the Criminal Justice System. 350 II. Legal Aid and the War on the Poor. 353 III. A Model for the Future - Relevancy and Impact. 357 CONCLUSION. 360 Recent media coverage and advocacy efforts on behalf of individuals subjected to criminal sanctions as a result of their poverty status has resulted in increased... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Barbara L. Bezdek POLICING THAT PERPETUATES BALTIMORE'S ISLANDS OF POVERTY AND DESPAIR 16 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 153 (Fall, 2016) Freddie Gray lived and died in the Sandtown neighborhood in west Baltimore, a 72-block area whose dismal, toxic, and episodically deadly physical and social realities should not be tolerable as part of the American landscape. More than one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, and 20% are unemployed. The unconstitutional policing... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Gregory R. Day , Salvatore J. Russo POVERTY AND THE HIDDEN EFFECTS OF SEX DISCRIMINATION: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INEQUALITY 37 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1183 (Summer, 2016) Sexist laws are more prevalent in regions where poverty is endemic. The corollary is true as well: the places where women tend to experience better treatment are typically more highly developed. The legal academy has drawn several inferences from this observation, including the observations that poverty and the development process appear to be... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Latonia Haney Keith POVERTY, THE GREAT UNEQUALIZER: IMPROVING THE DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR CIVIL LEGAL AID 66 Catholic University Law Review 55 (Fall, 2016) I. The Poverty Landscape--Who Needs Legal Help & Why?. 58 A. Demographics of Low-Income Populations. 59 1. Clients Eligible for LSC-Funded Civil Legal Aid. 59 2. Other Vulnerable Populations. 60 B. Civil Legal Needs of Low-Income Populations. 63 1. Cases or Matters Handled by LSC-Grantees. 63 2. Civil Legal Needs Studies. 63 3. Cases or Matters... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Maurice R. Dyson RETHINKING RODRIGUEZ AFTER CITIZENS UNITED: THE POOR AS A SUSPECT CLASS IN HIGH-POVERTY SCHOOLS 24 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 1 (Fall, 2016) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. What Did Rodriguez Really Say?. 8 III. Determining Suspect Class. 12 IV. Suspect Identity & Manifestations of Poverty:. 15 A. Residential Segregation & the Racial Achievement Gap as Organizing Principles of Poverty Discrimination. 15 B. In Need of a New Theory: Poverty & Its Erection of Racial Barriers.... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Laurel Parker West, PhD SOCCER MOMS, WELFARE QUEENS, WAITRESS MOMS, AND SUPER MOMS: MYTHS OF MOTHERHOOD IN STATE MEDIA COVERAGE OF CHILD CARE DURING THE "WELFARE REFORMS" OF THE 1990S 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 313 (Spring 2016) Throughout the evolution of American social policy, political debates surrounding child care have centered on competing maternal ideals--making mothers the primary target population for policy in this area. The construction of the deserving mother in child care policy debates has changed over time depending on particular economic circumstances... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Todd Jermstad, Belton, Texas SUBSIDIZING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM--THE COSTS OF BEING POOR A POUND OF FLESH: MONETARY SANCTIONS AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE POOR. BY ALEXES HARRIS. NEW YORK: RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION, 2016. 236 PP. $29.95 (PAPERBACK) 80-DEC Federal Probation 55 (December, 2016) Much has been written about the structure and nature of the modern criminal justice system in this country. A significant focus has been placed on the phenomenon of mass incarceration, which has made the United States an outlier in Western countries, indeed the world. Researchers in turn have examined this phenomenon through the lens of class,... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
Courtney G. Lee THE ANIMAL WELFARE ACT AT FIFTY: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN ANIMAL TESTING REGULATION 95 Nebraska Law Review 194 (2016) C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 195 II. Background of the Animal Welfare Act. 196 A. Enactment and Evolution. 196 B. Early Amendments. 197 C. Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act of 1985. 198 D. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. 201 E. IACUC Effectiveness. 203 III. Coverage of the AWA. 205 A. What Is an Animal under... 2016 Relevant (Poverty)
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