Daniel L. Hatcher, "Injustice, Inc.: How America's Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Juvenile Court Contracts and Child Support Contracts
Sally Kohn: I write about in the book Sean and his mother and Sean, yes, is a dollar sign instead of the ask because Sean becomes a commodity. And candidly, he's hard to write about because I know Sean, you know, and I know his mother, like I know the stories of what they're going through. So it's not just that they're harmed from the difficulties of poverty, that harm is being monetized," she says. "The systems that are intended to serve them are instead monetizing them"
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