The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison : Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice
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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.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.NEW: This text now has a companion 25 article reader: The Rich get Richer and the Poor get Prison: A Reader (ISBN: 0-205-68842-X). Visit this book's website for a full table of contents.
IN THIS SECTION:1.) BRIEF2.) COMPREHENSIVEBRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by LosingChapter 1: Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds like FailureChapter 2: A Crime by Any Other Name...Chapter 3: ...and the Poor Get PrisonChapter 4: To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War against Crime?Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal JusticeAppendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal JusticeAppendix II: Between Philosophy and CriminologyIndex COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing Chapter 1: Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds like Failure Designed To FailThree Excuses That Will Not Wash, Or How We Could Reduce Crime If We Wanted ToKnown Sources of CrimeWhat Works To Reduce CrimeHow Crime Pays: Erikson and DurkheimA Word about FoucaultChapter 2: A Crime by Any Other Name... What’s In a Name?The Carnival MirrorCriminal Justice as Creative ArtA Crime by Any Other Name...Chapter 3: ...and the Poor Get Prison Weeding Out the Wealthy...And the Poor Get PrisonChapter 4: To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War against Crime? Why Is The Criminal Justice System Failing?The Poverty of Criminals and the Crime of PovertyIdeology, Or How to Fool Enough of the People Enough of the TimeConclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice The Crime of JusticeRehabilitating Criminal Justice in AmericaAppendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology Index
