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    It is not the case that State punishment, as practiced, overwhelmingly falls on those structurally disadvantaged by the very social order the law upholds.

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    • 1.Crime rates, not enforcement bias, genuinely correlate with poverty due to rational incentives; punishment follows criminal behavior, not structural disadvantage per se.
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    • 2.Modern legal systems include public defenders, sentencing guidelines, and appeals—institutional checks designed to prevent systematic bias against the poor.
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    • 3.Disadvantaged groups' overrepresentation in prisons may reflect concentrated crime in those areas rather than evidence the law upholds an unjust social order.
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    • 1.Poverty limits access to quality legal defense, causing disadvantaged defendants to receive harsher sentences than wealthy counterparts for identical crimes.
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    • 2.Police enforcement concentrates in low-income neighborhoods, increasing arrest rates there regardless of actual crime distribution across socioeconomic groups.
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    • 3.Laws criminalizing survival activities (loitering, vagrancy, street vending) disproportionately target those lacking economic alternatives.
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