The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Thinking Critically about Class and Criminal Justice by Jeffrey Reiman

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Thinking Critically about Class and Criminal Justice

Jeffrey Reiman

260 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business p...

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