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  • 4 - Prosecuting Poverty

  • from Part II - Care As a Smokescreen
  • Wendy A. Bach
  • Book:
    Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
    Published online:
    25 August 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022, pp 85-101

  • Summary

    This chapter begins the book’s focus on the prosecutions themselves by asking and answering some basic questions: Who was prosecuted, who was not prosecuted, and did the legislature accomplish its purported aim to use prosecution to target mothers who gave birth to infants with NAS?

  • 3 - Historical and Theoretical Roots

  • from Part I - A Problem, a Solution, and a Quick Dive into History and Theory
  • Wendy A. Bach
  • Book:
    Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care
    Published online:
    25 August 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022, pp 47-82

  • 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.