The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
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The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey Reiman
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 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.
Jeffrey Reiman is William Fraser McDowell professor of philosophy at American University and the author of Critical Moral Liberalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy, and In Defense of Political Philosophy. Louis P. Pojman is professor of philosophy at the United States Military Academy. He has been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and is an active environmentalist. He is the author of several books, including The Logic of Subjectivity, Religious Belief and the Will; Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, and Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780205461721 |
| ISBN 10 | 0205461727 |
| Title | The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison |
| Author | Jeffrey Reiman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Year published | 2006-10-13 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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