9780205137725-0205137725-The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison (10th Edition)

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison (10th Edition)

ISBN-13: 9780205137725
ISBN-10: 0205137725
Edition: 10
Author: Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780205137725
ISBN-10: 0205137725
Edition: 10
Author: Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Pearson
Format: Paperback 304 pages

Summary

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison (10th Edition) (ISBN-13: 9780205137725 and ISBN-10: 0205137725), written by authors Jeffrey Reiman, Paul Leighton, was published by Pearson in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Criminology (Social Sciences, Class, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison (10th Edition) (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criminology books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.75.

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Illustrates the issue of economic inequality within the American justice system.

The best-selling text, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison 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. However, 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. This results in a large population of poor criminals in our prisons and in our media. The authors contend that the idea of crime as a work of the poor serves the interests of the rich and powerful while conveying a misleading notion that the real threat to Americans comes from the bottom of society rather than the top.

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

  • Examine the criminal justice system through the lens of the poor.
  • Understand that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates one’s own sense of fairness.
  • Morally evaluate the criminal justice system’s failures.
  • Identify the type of legislature that is biased against the poor.

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