Not a crime to be poor: the criminalization of poverty in America

Introduction

The criminalization of poverty

Ferguson is everywhere : twenty-first-century century debtors' prisons

Fighting back : the advocates and their work

Money bail

The criminalization of mental illness

Child support : criminalizing poor fathers

Criminalizing public benefits

Poverty, race, and discipline in schools : go directly to jail

Crime-free housing ordinances and the criminalization of homelessness

The real solution: end poverty

Taking criminal justice reform seriously

Turning the coin over : ending poverty as we know it

Acknowledgments.