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Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, The, 8th Edition

By Jeffrey Reiman

ISBN-10: 0-205-46172-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-205-46172-1

Published by Allyn & Bacon

Pub. Date: Jul 13, 2006

Format: Paper

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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 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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice

Marxism and Capitalism

Capitalism and Ideology

Ideology and Law

Law and Ethics

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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

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