Description
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.
Table of Contents
IN THIS SECTION:
1.) BRIEF
2.) COMPREHENSIVE
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing
Chapter 1: Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds like Failure
Chapter 2: A Crime by Any Other Name...
Chapter 3: ...and the Poor Get Prison
Chapter 4: To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War against Crime?
Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice
Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice
Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology
Index
COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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
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...
Chapter 3: ...and the Poor Get Prison
Weeding Out the Wealthy
...And the Poor Get Prison
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
Ideology, Or How to Fool Enough of the People Enough of the Time
Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice
The Crime of Justice
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice in America
Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice
Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology
Index
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Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison, The: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice, CourseSmart eTextbook, 9th Edition
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$19.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-205-75703-9
