Creditors' use of consumer debt criminalization practices and their financial abuse of women.

Authors :: Johnson, Creola
Source :: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. Winter, 2016, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p5, 70 p.
Publication Year :: 2016
Abstract: "Hospitals ... [send you] a $100,000 bill on something, [but] they are not calling up the sheriff's department to go in and arrest the person because the bill wasn't paid." [...]

Subjects :: Criminal procedure -- Usage -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects
Consumer credit -- Demographic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Collection (Accounting) -- Demographic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules
Coercion (Law) -- Demographic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Remedies
Women -- Economic aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Crimes against
Government regulation

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