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• Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison , The: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 9/E
  Reiman & Leighton
  ©2010  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 272 pp  |  Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 020568842X  |  ISBN-13: 9780205688425
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  This best-selling text contends that the criminal justice system is biased against the poor from start to finish.  The authors argue that, even before the process of arrest, trial, and sentencing, the system is biased against the poor in what it chooses to treat as crime. 

   

  The authors show that numerous acts of the well-off--such as their refusal to make workplaces safe, refusal to curtail deadly pollution, promotion of unnecessary surgery, and prescriptions for unnecessary drugs--cause as much harm as the acts of the poor that are treated as crimes; but the dangerous acts of the well-off are almost never treated as crimes, and when they are, they are almost never treated as severely as the crimes of the poor.  Not only does the criminal justice system fail to protect against the harmful acts of well-off people, it also fails to remedy the causes of crime, such as poverty. The result is that we see in our prisons and in our media a large population of poor criminals.  The authors contend that this image of crime as the work of the poor serves the interests of the rich and powerful by conveying the misleading idea that the real threat to Americans comes from the bottom of society rather than the top.  One reviewer describes this text as “one of the most outstanding critiques of the criminal justice process…a book that needed to be written and needs to be publishing again and again…a text as relevant today as when first published in 1979.”

   

  NEW: This text now has an accompanying 25 article reader: The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison: A Reader (ISBN: 0-205-66179-3). Visit this book's website for a full table of contents. To order the package of the text + reader, use ISBN: 0-205-71428-5.

   

  NEW: This text can now be packaged with MySocKit at no additional cost. MySocKit contains chapter quizzes and chapter activities, written by the author . Package ISBN: 0-205-77236-6.

   

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