Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2018
Journal Title
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
ISSN
1073-1105
DOI
10.1177/1073110518804199
Abstract
American society tends to medicalize or criminalize social problems. Criminal justice reformers have made arguments for a positive role in the relief of poverty that are similar to those aired in healthcare today. The consequences of criminalizing poverty caution against its continued medicalization.
First Page
573
Last Page
581
Num Pages
9
Volume Number
46
Issue Number
3
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Recommended Citation
William M. Sage & Jennifer E. Laurin,
If You Would Not Criminalize Poverty, Do Not Medicalize It,
46
J.L. Med. & Ethics
573
(2018).
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