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Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, The, 8/E
Jeffrey Reiman, American University

ISBN-10: 0205461727
ISBN-13: 9780205461721

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper; 288 pp
Published: 07/13/2006

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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 crime—poverty, lack of education, and discrimination.

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.”

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.

This product accompanies:
Reiman & Leighton, Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison , The: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 9/E

Lively, accessible, and provocative writing makes this book easy to read and exciting for students. Reiman uses numerous studies and examples to illustrate his ideas and explains difficult concepts in a non-technical manner.

Charts, tables, and studies, are updated with the most recent data available to illustrate key points throughout.

The book is a useful counter to the uproar about crime, provoking thought and discussion.

1. Latest statistics on criminal and noncriminal harms.

2. New section entitled "A Word about Foucault" at the end of chapter 1 (plus a brief comment on Rawls's theory of justice added to the section on "Poverty" as a known cause of crime, also in chapter 1).

3. New appendix entitled "Between Philosophy and Criminology," arguing that criminology has a special need for philosophical reflection, and stating the philosophical assumptions underlying THE RICH GET RICHER.

Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing

Chapter 1

Crime Control in America:
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Designed to Fail

Three Excuses That Will Not Wash, 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

Summary

Study Questions

Additional Readings

Notes

Chapter 2

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 against America

Poverty Kills

Summary

Study Questions

Additional Readings

Notes

Chapter 3

...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

Summary

Study Questions

Additional Readings

Notes

Chapter 4

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

Additional Readings

Notes

Conclusion: Criminal Justice
or Criminal Justice

The Crime of Justice

Rehabilitating Criminal Justice in America

Protecting Society

Promoting Justice

Summary

Study Questions

Additional Readings

Notes

Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice

Marxism and Capitalism

Capitalism and Ideology

Ideology and Law

Law and Ethics

Notes

Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology

Philosophical Assumptions of Social Science Generally

The Special Philosophical Needs of Criminology

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Philosophy

Notes

Legal Ethics (Philosophy)
Philosophy of Law (Philosophy)
Social Stratification (Sociology)

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (with Supplementary Article), 7/E
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–and shows that the bias is conjoined with a general refusal to remedy the causes of crime–poverty, lack of education, and discrimination.

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.”

The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as 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.

Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison , The: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, 9/E
Reiman & Leighton
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ISBN-10: 020568842X | ISBN-13: 9780205688425
Net price: $30.00 (What's this?)Brief Description

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.

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This best-selling text, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, eighth edition, 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.

The author argues that actions of well-off people, such as 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.

As with every edition, this text has been thoroughly revised. Some of the latest revisions include the following:

* Current statistics on criminal and noncriminal harms

* New section at the end of Chapter 1, “A Word about Foucault”

* Also in Chapter 1, a brief comment on Rawls’s theory of justice added to the section on poverty as a known cause of crime

* New appendix, “Between Philosophy and Criminology,” argues that criminology has a special need for philosophical reflection, and states the philosophical assumptions underlying The Rich Get Richer

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