Open AccessForeword: Innocent Until Proven Poor
Author(s) -
Sara Zampierin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
michigan journal of race and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2688-5492
pISSN - 1095-2721
DOI - 10.36643/mjrl.21.2.foreword
Subject(s) - presumption of innocence , presumption , criminology , variety (cybernetics) , poverty , criminal justice , punishment (psychology) , economic justice , political science , sociology , innocence , law , law and economics , psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science
One of the core tenets of our criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. As the title of the Symposium recognizes, we have allowed our justice system to ignore that presumption for people living in poverty in a variety of ways. Instead, it often inflicts additional and harsher punishment on individuals because of their poverty.