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7 - Criminalization As a Road to Care and the Price You Pay

from Part III - Criminalized Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2022

Wendy A. Bach
Wendy A. Bach
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee School of Law
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Cindy Jones1 has lived and worked in and around the criminal courts in a rural East Tennessee county for decades. What she told me epitomizes what happens when three phenomena – bias, reliance on punishment systems for care, and incredibly resource-poor environments – collide. Cindy has been a jail administrator, a treatment coordinator, and a probation officer, among other jobs. I originally got her name from the local public defender who is assigned to her courthouse. When I explained my project he said that he was happy to talk to me but that the person I really had to talk to was Cindy. She was his go-to person to get help for his clients and she, more than anyone else in his community, knows how to get people treatment. So my research assistant and I got in the car and drove out to meet her.

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child welfare and access to careprosecution and access to carecare in jailsdrug courtsjail and drug courts
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Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care , pp. 145 - 164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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