ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Malnutrition, Poverty In The United States, Birth Weight
26 Aug 2020
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Intoxication resulting from alcoholism or drug addiction is considered voluntary. Rationale one who voluntarily destroys his will power should not be excused. State may not punish a person for the status of being addicted to drugs or narcotics (robinson v. california us 1962) A state may punish an alcoholic for public drunkenness (powell v. texas us. One who commits a crime because of social deprivation should be acquitted because. No community bond with the largely disenfranchised poor. Poverty is poison: a guide to defining and understanding poverty for. Presented to texas criminal defense lawyers association. Living in or near poverty has always been a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society. But the distance between the poor and the rest of us is much greater than it was 40 years ago . to be poor in this country today is to be an outcast in your own country. Nat"l center for children in poverty (2007)
