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If You Would Not Criminalize Poverty, Do Not Medicalize It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

William M. Sage  and
Jennifer E. Laurin
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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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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 3: The Medicalization of Poverty; Perspectives of Alzheimer's Disease: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues , Fall 2018 , pp. 573 - 581
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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