The Law And The Poor

Author : Sir Edward Abbott Parry
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781584773542

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The Law and the Poor by Sir Edward Abbott Parry Pdf

Parry, Edward Abbott. The Law and the Poor. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1914. xxi, 316 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-354-5. Cloth $70. * Reprint of first edition. Parry [1863-1953] was an English municipal judge for over twenty years. His book, a guide for "the man in the street," which began as a series of newspaper articles, outlines the laws concerning insolvency, debt and poverty. It is distinguished by its emphasis on cultural attitudes toward the poor, and its readability and humanity. Parry's was among the strong voices to speak in sympathy to the poor in response to the Poor Law Amendment Act which had been enacted in 1834. "Judge Parry is particularly gifted with that rare imagination which enables him to see mortal men and women where others see cases, litigants, and parties before the courts. Hence his volume is a rare document, especially useful as a corrective to the tendency to lose sight of actual living conditions in the logical pursuit of abstract legal doctrines." Cohen, Law and Social Order cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810.

Author : Peter Edelman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620975534

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Not a Crime to Be Poor by Peter Edelman Pdf

Awarded "Special Recognition" by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards Finalist for the American Bar Association's 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award Named one of the "10 books to read after you've read Evicted" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Essential reading for anyone trying to understand the demands of social justice in America."—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy Winner of a special Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the book that Evicted author Matthew Desmond calls "a powerful investigation into the ways the United States has addressed poverty . . . lucid and troubling" In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. Department of Justice didn't just expose racially biased policing; it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city's poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors' prisons of the twenty-first century. The anti-tax revolution that began with the Reagan era led state and local governments, starved for revenues, to squeeze ordinary people, collect fines and fees to the tune of 10 million people who now owe $50 billion. Nor is the criminalization of poverty confined to money. Schoolchildren are sent to court for playground skirmishes that previously sent them to the principal's office. Women are evicted from their homes for calling the police too often to ask for protection from domestic violence. The homeless are arrested for sleeping in the park or urinating in public. A former aide to Robert F. Kennedy and senior official in the Clinton administration, Peter Edelman has devoted his life to understanding the causes of poverty. As Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy has said, "No one has been more committed to struggles against impoverishment and its cruel consequences than Peter Edelman." And former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, "If there is one essential book on the great tragedy of poverty and inequality in America, this is it."

Author : Peter Jones,Steven King
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443886611

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Obligation, Entitlement and Dispute under the English Poor Laws by Peter Jones,Steven King Pdf

With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often thought of as essentially “modern”: How should the state support those in work but who do not earn enough to get by? How should communities deal with in-migrants and immigrants who might have made only the lightest contribution to the economic and social lives of those communities? What basket of welfare rights ought to be attached to the status of citizen? How might people prove, maintain and pass on a sense of “belonging” to a place? How should and could the poor navigate a welfare system which was essentially discretionary? What agency could the poor have and how did ordinary officials understand their respective duties to the poor and to taxpayers? And how far was the state successful in introducing, monitoring and maintaining a uniform welfare system which matched the intent and letter of the law? This volume takes these core questions as a starting point. Synthesising a rich body of sources ranging from pauper letters through to legal cases in the highest courts in the land, this book offers a re-evaluation of the Old and New Poor Laws. Challenging traditional chronological dichotomies, it evaluates and puts to use new sources, and questions a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor. In doing so, the compelling voices of the poor move to centre stage and provide a human dimension to debates about rights, obligations and duties under the Old and New Poor Laws.

Author : Edward Abbott Sir Parry, 1863-1943
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363977504

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LAW & THE POOR by Edward Abbott Sir Parry, 1863-1943 Pdf

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Author : Frank J. Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0835789373

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The Law and the Poor by Frank J. Parker Pdf

Author : R. George Wright
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814795026

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Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor? by R. George Wright Pdf

Consider the horror we feel when we learn of a crime such as that committed by Robert Alton Harris, who commandeered a car, killed the two teenage boys in it, and then finished what was left of their lunch. What we don't consider in our reaction to the depravity of this act is that, whether we morally blame him or not, Robert Alton Harris has led a life almost unimaginably different from our own in crucial respects. In Does Law Morally Bind the Poor? or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread?, author R. George Wright argues that while the poor live in the same world as the rest of us, their world is crucially different. The law does not recognize this difference, however, and proves to be inconsistent by excusing the trespasses of persons fleeing unexpected storms, but not those of the involuntarily homeless. He persuasively concludes that we can reject crude environmental determinism without holding the most deprived to unreasonable standards.

Author : Lorie Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135179632

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Welfare's Forgotten Past by Lorie Charlesworth Pdf

That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.

Author : Felice Batlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084537

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Women and Justice for the Poor by Felice Batlan Pdf

This book re-examines fundamental assumptions about the American legal profession and the boundaries between "professional" lawyers, "lay" lawyers, and social workers. Putting legal history and women's history in dialogue, it details the history of the origins and development of free legal aid for the poor in the United States.

Author : Khiara M. Bridges
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781503602304

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The Poverty of Privacy Rights by Khiara M. Bridges Pdf

The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand marginalized populations to have "weak versions" of the privacy rights everyone else enjoys. Khiara M. Bridges investigates poor mothers' experiences with the state—both when they receive public assistance and when they do not. Presenting a holistic view of just how the state intervenes in all facets of poor mothers' privacy, Bridges shows how the Constitution has not been interpreted to bestow these women with family, informational, and reproductive privacy rights. Bridges seeks to turn popular thinking on its head: Poor mothers' lack of privacy is not a function of their reliance on government assistance—rather it is a function of their not bearing any privacy rights in the first place. Until we disrupt the cultural narratives that equate poverty with immorality, poor mothers will continue to be denied this right.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poor
ISBN : UCAL:B4915875

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The New Poor Law in the Nineteenth Century by Derek Fraser Pdf

Includes a chapter on Scotland.

Author : Reginald Heber Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1025072406

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Justice and the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith Pdf

Author : Sar A. Levitan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:882446905

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The Great Society's Poor Law by Sar A. Levitan Pdf

Author : David Englander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883210

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Poverty and Poor Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 1834-1914 by David Englander Pdf

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system dominated attitudes to welfare provision for the next 80 years. This new Seminar Study explores the changing ideas to poverty over this period and assesses current debates on Victorian attitudes to the poor. David Englander reviews the old system of poor relief; he considers how the New Poor Law was enacted and received and looks at how it worked in practice. The chapter on the Scottish experience will be particularly welcomed, as will Dr Englander's discussion of the place of the Poor Law within British history.

Author : Edward Abbott Parry
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1512299332

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The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry Pdf

"The Law and the Poor" from Edward Abbott Parry. English judge and dramatist (1863-1943).

Author : Peter Robson,Asbjorn Kjønstad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313171

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Poverty and the Law by Peter Robson,Asbjorn Kjønstad Pdf

This collection of essays focuses attention on the global impact of legal policies on levels of poverty. They illustrate the distinct dimensions of poverty in a range of different political and cultural settings and also show how poverty is exacerbated by quite discrete local cultural factors in some instances. There is,nonetheless a universal element which runs through all the contributions. The fate of those who are disadvantaged in society depends crucially on their access to goods through the world of work. Thus gender, ethnic background or disability can result in individuals having a much higher chance of experiencing poverty than those outwith these groups and the success of these groups in achieving a measure of prosperity is bound up with a multiplicity of geographical and political factors. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society.