The Criminalization of poverty / Sabina Virgo.
Talk which explores how Euramerican society defines criminals and crime along lines of economic class. While those responsible for the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry will go free, small time thiefs will go to prison. Virgo also discusses: distribution of wealth in the United States; the relationship of wealth to rule-making and power; the criminal justice system is geared to prosecute poor minorities, not the wealthy elite; minorities are the majority of prisoners in the U.S.; drug users and prosecuted, but the trafficers are free; foreign policy promotes illegal farming practices among the Third World poor; a final call for people to work together to end the misuse of power.|THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY / Sabina Virgo. Talk which explores how Euramerican society defines criminals and crime along lines of economic class. While those responsible for the collapse of the Savings and Loan industry will go free, small time thiefs will go to prison. Virgo also discusses: distribution of wealth in the United States| the relationship of wealth to rule-making and power| the criminal justice system is geared to prosecute poor minorities, not the wealthy elite| minorities are the majority of prisoners in the U.S.| drug users and prosecuted, but the trafficers are free| foreign policy promotes illegal farming practices among the Third World poor| a final call for people to work together to end the misuse of power. - RECORDED: KPFK, 10 Dec. 1990.