The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Reiman

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice

Jeffrey Reiman

263 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 dis...

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