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Gideon's Servants And The Criminalization Of Poverty, Alexandra Natapoff
Gideon's Servants And The Criminalization Of Poverty, Alexandra Natapoff
Alexandra Natapoff
In ways that slip beneath the doctrinal radar, public defenders often behave like social workers. They find drug treatment and jobs for their clients, and intervene with landlords and employers. Conversely — and ironically — many civil welfare service providers act increasingly like law enforcement officials. Teachers call the police on their students, while welfare case workers often refer their clients for prosecution. This role-switching — by criminal lawyers and civil servants alike — is a function of the tight connection between criminalization and poverty: poor people tend to get swept up in the criminal system and such encounters tend …
Gideon's Promise And Peril, Alexandra Natapoff
Gideon's Promise And Peril, Alexandra Natapoff
Alexandra Natapoff
The challenge of structural reform and the right to counsel in the misdemeanor system.
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