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If You Would Not Criminalize Poverty, Do Not Medicalize It
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
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.
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