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

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By: Jeffrey Reiman
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EDITORIAL REVIEW

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.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 23rd July 2006
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 288
Ean: 9780205461721
Isbn: 0205461727

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USER REVIEWS

Rich Get Richer
~ Written on Feb 17, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

Is a very thoughtful and true to form read. It gives insighful information and facts to ponder. Very good and interesting.

The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison
~ Written on Feb 17, 2009. out of users found this review helpful.

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.

Not bad
~ Written on Dec 15, 2008. out of users found this review helpful.

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.

Liberal Madness
~ Written on Jan 25, 2008. 1 out of 20 users found this review helpful.

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.

Received what was advertised!
~ Written on Dec 14, 2007. out of 2 users found this review helpful.

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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