Book contents
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
- 1 Creating a Crime to Create Care
- 2 Defining the Problem
- 3 Historical and Theoretical Roots
- Part II Care As a Smokescreen
- Part III Criminalized Care
- Part IV Rejecting Criminalization and Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Punishment and Care
- Index
3 - Historical and Theoretical Roots
from Part I - A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2022
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
- 1 Creating a Crime to Create Care
- 2 Defining the Problem
- 3 Historical and Theoretical Roots
- Part II Care As a Smokescreen
- Part III Criminalized Care
- Part IV Rejecting Criminalization and Reconceptualizing the Relationship between Punishment and Care
- Index
Summary
Tennessee’s fetal assault statute, and the systems in which it was embedded, did not appear out of thin air. To the contrary, both the statute and the systems in which it operated are deeply rooted in the history and practices of US punishment and social support systems and in the stigmas about race, sex, and socioeconomic status that undergird and inform those systems. Similarly, this book does not stand alone. It is rooted in, and in conversation with, the work of many other scholars writing in the fields it touches. This chapter lays the historical ground and locates this book in these larger academic conversations.
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- Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care , pp. 47 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022