The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Get Prison
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-205-46172-1 (ISBN)
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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.
Introduction: Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing
Chapter1
Crime Control in America:
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Designed to Fail
Three Excuses That Will Not Wash, or How We Could Reduce Crime if We Wanted to
Known Sources of CrimeWhat Works to Reduce Crime
How Crime Pays: Erikson and Durkheim
A Word about Foucault
Summary
Study Questions
Additional Readings
Notes
Chapter 2
A Crime by Any Other Name...
What’s in a Name?
The Carnival Mirror Criminal Justice as Creative Art
A Crime by Any Other Name...
Work May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Health Care May Be Dangerous to Your Health
Waging Chemical Warfare against America
Poverty Kills
Summary
Study Questions
Additional Readings
Notes
Chapter 3
...and the Poor Get Prison
Weeding Out the Wealthy
Arrest and Charging Adjudication and Conviction
Enron and a Year of Corporate Financial Scandals
Sentencing
The Savings & Loan Scandal
...and the Poor Get Prison
Summary
Study Questions
Additional Readings
Notes
Chapter 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 Poverty The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice
The Bonus of Bias
Ideology, or How to Fool Enough of the People Enough of the Time
Summary Study Questions
Additional Readings
Notes
Conclusion: CriminalJustice
or Criminal Justice
The Crime of Justice
Rehabilitating Criminal Justice in America Protecting Society
Promoting Justice
Summary
Study Questions
Additional Readings
Notes
Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice
Marxism and Capitalism
Capitalism and Ideology
Ideology and Law
Law and Ethics
Notes
Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology
Philosophical Assumptions of Social Science Generally
The Special Philosophical Needs of Criminology
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Philosophy Notes
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 148 mm |
| Gewicht | 379 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-205-46172-7 / 0205461727 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-205-46172-1 / 9780205461721 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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