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Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice

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ISBN-10: 0205461727

ISBN-13: 9780205461721

Edition: 8th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Jeffrey Reiman

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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 crimepoverty, lack of education, and discrimination. One reviewer describes this text as one of the most outstanding critiques of the criminal justice processa book that needed to be written and needs to be publishing again and againa text as relevant today as when first published in 1979. The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as their refusal to…    
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Book details

List price: $47.60
Edition: 8th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing
Crime Control inAmerica: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Designed to Fail
Three Excuses That Will NotWash, or How We Could Reduce Crime if We Wanted to Known Sources of Crime What Works to Reduce Crime
How Crime Pays: Erikson and Durkheim
A Word about Foucault
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A Crime by Any Other Name
What's in a Name? The Carnival Mirror Criminal Justice as Creative Art
A Crime by Any Other Name
Work May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Health Care May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Waging Chemical Warfare againstAmerica
Poverty Kills
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...and the Poor Get Prison
Weeding Out the Wealthy Arrest and Charging Adjudication and Conviction
Enron and a Year of Corporate Financial Scandals
Sentencing
The Savings & Loan Scandal
...and the Poor Get Prison
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To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War against Crime?
Why Is the Criminal Justice System Failing? The Poverty of Criminals and the Crime of Poverty The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice
The Bonus of Bias
Ideology, or How to Fool Enough of the People Enough of the Time Summary Study Questions
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Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice
The Crime of Justice Rehabilitating Criminal Justice in America Protecting Society
Promoting Justice
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The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice
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