{"product_id":"injustice-inc-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children-and-the-poor-9780520396050","title":"Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor","description":"\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 \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50719620301074,"sku":"9780520396050","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23461242-8142-4271-9821-83534264c4b1.jpg?v=1734669175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/injustice-inc-how-americas-justice-system-commodifies-children-and-the-poor-9780520396050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}