The rich get richer and the poor get prison : ideology, class, and criminal justice
Jeffrey H. Reiman (Author), Paul Leighton (Author)
The Rich Get Richer shows readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens' sense of basic fairness. It presents extensive evidence from mainstream data that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should. The authors develop a theoretical perspective from which readers might understand these failures and evaluate them morally--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2017
Eleventh edition View all formats and editions
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, 2017
xxi, 258 pages ; 23 cm
9781138210929, 9781138193963, 9780815366652, 1138210927, 1138193968, 0815366655
951854698
Introduction: Criminal justice through the looking glass, or winning by losing
Crime control in America : nothing succeeds like failure
A crime by any other name ..
... And the poor get prison
To the vanquished belong the spoiles : who is winning the losing ware against crime?
Criminal Justice or Criminal justice
Appendices: The Marxian critique of criminal justice ; Between philosophy and criminology