E-Books →The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Thinking Critically About Class and Criminal Justice Ed 13

This new edition continues to engage readers in important exercises of critical thinking: Why has the U.S. relied so heavily on tough crime policies despite evidence of their limited effectiveness, and how much of the decline in crime rates can be attributed to them? Why does the U.S. have such a high crime rate compared to other developed nations, and what could we do about it? Are the morally blameworthy harms of the rich and poor equally translated into criminal laws that protect the public from harms on the streets and harms from the suites? How much class bias is present in the criminal justice system―both when the rich and poor engage in the same act, and when the rich use their leadership of corporations to perpetrate mass victimization?
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