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

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

Paul Leighton, Jeffrey Reiman

280 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For nearly 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 bus...

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