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An unflinching exposé of how the family, juvenile, and criminal justice systems monetize 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 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. Injustice, Inc. underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.
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 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. Injustice, Inc. underscores the need to unravel these predatory operations, which have escaped public scrutiny for too long.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
21 February 2023
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520396050
Format: Paperback
“Hatcher, a professor of law and advocate for social justice, delivers a well-researched, scholarly, disturbing synthesis of social history and legal treatise, tracking the long-term monetization of the justice system. . . . A useful, bleak exposé of a little-understood legal labyrinth constructed to harm the most vulnerable.”
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice
2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals
3. Judicial Child Support Factory
4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit
5. The Probation Business
6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor
7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor
8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Crumbling Foundations of Justice
2. Juvenile Courts Monetizing Child Removals
3. Judicial Child Support Factory
4. Prosecuting the Poor for Profit
5. The Probation Business
6. Policing and Profiting from the Poor
7. Bodies in the Beds: The Business of Jailing Children and the Poor
8. Racialized Harm of the Injustice Enterprise
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index