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

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

By: Jeffrey 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.- 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.

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Rich Get Richer - Is a very thoughtful and true to form read. It gives insighful information and facts to ponder. Very good and interesting.

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison - The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison is well worth the reading time. While some of the concepts require time to ponder, and not that I agree with everything, the author, Jeffrey Reiman, does provide insight as to why parts of society is the way it is--be it healthy or destructive. For that, the book is worth the read.

Customer Review: 3 out of 5
Not bad - Book does have a liberal leaning but many of the points can be related to from both sides. It would be better if the book was read alongside another that had a more conservative leaning in order to balance out the opinions in order to make a more informed decision for yourself.

Customer Review: 1 out of 5
Liberal Madness - Nothing more than a liberal's oration of finger pointing. The book exudes an overwhelming theme of increased social programs, wealth re-distribution, punishment of the rich, tax breaks for the poor, and coddling of the imprisoned. If Saul Alinsky was alive, he would be proud. However, we still have his protégée Hillary Clinton.

Customer Review: 4 out of 5
Received what was advertised! - The book I received was just as advertised. It came in the specified time frame. No problems. I would order from seller again.

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