Injustice, Inc.

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How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor

By Daniel L. Hatcher

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Injustice, Inc. offers an unflinching exposé of how family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems in the US monetise and exploit communities they are meant to serve. Daniel L. Hatcher presents a searing legal analysis revealing how courts, police, probation departments, and detention centres operate as profit-driven entities, entangling vulnerable individuals in cycles of poverty and systemic racialised harm. The book details various revenue schemes, including extortion of fines and fees, property seizure, and incentivised arrests, calling for urgent reform.
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This book is ideal for legal scholars, social justice advocates, educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in the intersection of law, race, and economics. Its detailed legal analysis and social critique suit readers seeking a critical understanding of systemic injustice within the US justice systems.

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An unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetise the communities they purport to serve and trap them in crushing poverty

Injustice, Inc. 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.

Hatcher reveals stark details of revenue schemes and reflects on the systemic racialised harm of the injustice enterprise. He details how these corporatised institutions enter contracts to make money removing children from their homes, extort fines and fees, collaborate with debt collectors, seize property, incentivise arrests and evictions, enforce unpaid child labour, maximise occupancy in detention and "treatment" centres, and more. Injustice, Inc. underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.

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Reviews praise Hatcher's work as a well-researched, scholarly, and disturbing exposé that sheds light on the monetisation of the justice system. Kirkus Reviews describes it as a bleak but useful synthesis of social history and legal analysis. CHOICE highlights its value for educators, families, and communities. Social Forces commends the book for its eye-opening deep dive into juvenile legal practices focused on revenue generation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520396050

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 5 b-w illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 256

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Daniel L. Hatcher Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Daniel L. Hatcher is Professor of Law in the University of Baltimore's Civil Advocacy Clinic and author of The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens. A former Maryland Legal Aid and Children's Defense Fund attorney, he has long been a scholar, advocate, and teacher on poverty and justice.