The rich get richer and the poor get prison : ideology, class, and criminal justice / Jeffrey Reiman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : criminal justice through the looking glass, or winning by losing -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Notes -- 1. 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 -- First excuse : we're too soft! -- Second excuse : a cost of modern life -- Third excuse : blame it on the kids! -- Known sources of crime -- Poverty -- Prison -- Guns -- Drugs -- What works to reduce crime -- How crime pays : Erikson and Durkheim -- A word about Foucault -- Summary -- Study questions -- Additional readings -- Notes -- 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 -- 3. ...and the poor get prison -- Weeding out the wealthy -- Arrest and charging -- Adjudication and conviction -- Sentencing -- ...and the poor get prison -- Summary -- Study questions -- Additional readings -- Notes --

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 -- What is ideology? -- The need for ideology -- Summary -- Study questions -- Additional readings -- Notes -- Conclusion : criminal justice 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.

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