Health Justice
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Socio-legal research team seeks to understand pregnancy criminalization in Appalachia and beyond
Professor Wendy Bach isn’t new to conversations about the impact of systems of care and punishment on poor communities. Bach’s nearly 30-year career has been dedicated, both in scholarship and practice, to work at the intersections of poverty law, criminal law, and social welfare provision. In 2022 she published her first book, Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care,…