The rich get richer and the poor get prison : ideology, class, and criminal justice /
Reiman, Jeffrey H.
The rich get richer and the poor get prison : ideology, class, and criminal justice / Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton. - 9th ed. - Boston, MA : Allyn & Bacon, c2010. - xx, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Criminal justice through the looking glass, or winning by losing -- Crime control in America : nothing succeeds like failure -- A crime by any other name ... -- ... And the poor get prison -- To the vanquished belong the spoils : who is winning the losing war against crime? -- Criminal justice or criminal justice -- Appendix I : The Marxian critique of criminal justice -- Appendix II : Between philosophy and criminology.
This best-selling text examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish, from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing. Also, this text discusses how this bias is accompanied with a general refusal to remedy the causes of crime-poverty, lack of education, and discrimination. The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs, cause occupational and environmental hazards to innocent members of the public and produce just as much death, destruction, and financial loss as so-called crimes of the poor. However, these acts of the well-off are rarely treated as crimes, and when they are, they are never treated as severely as crimes of the poor.--Provided by publisher.
9780205688425 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020568842X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009025322
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
Social classes--United States.
United States--Social policy.
HV 9950 .R46 2010
The rich get richer and the poor get prison : ideology, class, and criminal justice / Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton. - 9th ed. - Boston, MA : Allyn & Bacon, c2010. - xx, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Criminal justice through the looking glass, or winning by losing -- Crime control in America : nothing succeeds like failure -- A crime by any other name ... -- ... And the poor get prison -- To the vanquished belong the spoils : who is winning the losing war against crime? -- Criminal justice or criminal justice -- Appendix I : The Marxian critique of criminal justice -- Appendix II : Between philosophy and criminology.
This best-selling text examines the premise that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish, from the definition of what constitutes a crime through the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing. Also, this text discusses how this bias is accompanied with a general refusal to remedy the causes of crime-poverty, lack of education, and discrimination. The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs, cause occupational and environmental hazards to innocent members of the public and produce just as much death, destruction, and financial loss as so-called crimes of the poor. However, these acts of the well-off are rarely treated as crimes, and when they are, they are never treated as severely as crimes of the poor.--Provided by publisher.
9780205688425 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020568842X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2009025322
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
Social classes--United States.
United States--Social policy.
HV 9950 .R46 2010