Law, Justice and the Urban Poor
Author : Norani Othman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN :
Author : Norani Othman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor laws and legislation
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Author : David Ray Papke
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 1628953527
The populations of American cities have always included poor people, but the predicament of the urban poor has worsened over time. Their social capital, that is, the connections and organizations that traditionally enabled them to form communities, has shredded. Economically comfortable Americans have come to increasingly care less about the plight of the urban poor and to think of them in terms of “us and them.” Considered lazy paupers in the early nineteenth century, the urban poor came to be seen as a violent criminal “underclass” by the end of the twentieth. Living primarily in the nation’s deindustrialized inner cities and making up nearly 15 percent of the population, today’s urban poor are oppressed people living in the midst of American affluence. This book examines how law works for, against, and with regard to the urban poor, with “law” being understood broadly to include not only laws but also legal proceedings and institutions. Law is too complicated and variable to be seen as simply a club used to beat down the urban poor, but it does work largely in negative ways for them. An essential text for both law students and those drawn to areas of social justice, Containment and Condemnation shows how law helps create, expand, and perpetuate contemporary urban poverty.
Author : Felice Batlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107084539
This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between "professional" lawyers, "lay" lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States.
Author : Reginald Heber Smith
Publisher : New York, Pub. for the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching by C. Scribner's sons
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Justice, Administration of
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Author : Moniza Rizzini Ansari
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2025
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781032226880
"This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it. Urban poverty has been widely examined as a social problem that requires attention and social commitment. And law is often seen as both an important contributor to the problem, as well as a source of crucial tools to overcome it. In spite of this, however, poverty is surprisingly disregarded within legal scholarship. This book counters this by drawing on legal theory, legal history and legal geography to inquire how urban poverty is made visible and invisible as a problem across global cities. More specifically, it investigates the mechanisms and networks through which global urban poverty has been conceptually and materially shaped in a way that fits the remit of global corporate philanthropy and the development aid agenda. By following law's circuitous interactions with poverty knowledge and antipoverty interventions, the book demonstrates how it plays a historical role in making poverty seen, known and remedied. As a result, the book argues, law consolidates a stable image of poverty as an essential 'problem' - to be uniformly found worldwide, and so reasonably fixable with the appropriate legal reforms. Taking poverty to be a fundamental manifestation of social injustice, the book thus raises key questions about the role of law in the achievement of social justice. This innovative and insightful account of the relationship between law and poverty will appeal to scholars in critical and socio legal studies, as well as others working in poverty studies, urban studies, development studies, geography, sociology and social policy"--
Author : V. R. Krishna Iyer
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Legal Services Program (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Government publications
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Author : Frank J. Parker
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Economic Opportunity Office
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
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Author : Anita Wadhwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317434463
The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative justice to build positive school cultures and address disciplinary problems in a more corrective and less punitive manner. Looking at the school-to-prison pipeline in a historical context, it analyzes current issues facing schools and communities and ways that restorative justice can improve behavior and academic achievement. By practicing a critical restorative justice, educators can reduce the domino effect between suspension and incarceration and foster a more inclusive school climate.