About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in good shape, some highlights inside but no missing or torn pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 238 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub Date: 7/18/1997 Binding: Paperback Pages: 226. read more
"Author has some good points, but for the most part the reading is dull. Talks a lot about poor people committing crime because of society. Had to read this for school - not something I would choose to read for fun."
"This book examines the American Criminal Justice System from a philosophical and direct approach. The argument is that the system is designed to be a "pyrrhic defeat," meaning that the criminal justice system fails so much that it is a victory for those who are rich and hold power in this country. The system is set up for people to think that poor minorities are the ones we should fear and that they cause the most harm. What Reiman points out is that corporate crime, unsafe work conditions and environmental problems, only to name a few, are a far worst threat to our lives than someone murdering us, yet it is the street criminal that gets years in prison when the other "serious" offenders get none. One last thing that I will point out is that he mentions that society (meaning those who are in power and shape these notions)labels only certain things as crimes even though two different acts are both done knowingly and cause the same outcome: death. To quote Reiman: " The workplace, the medical profession, the air we breathe, and the poverty we refuse to rectify lead to far more human suffering, result in far more death and disability, and take far more dollars from our pockets than the murders, aggravated assaults, and thefts reported annually by the FBI" (101). If you are at all interested in this because it affects our society then I highly encourage you to read this book. It explains a lot more and a lot better than I can."
"An examination of the American Criminal Justice System, which argues that the system fails us on three counts (failing to institute laws that could actually reduce crime, failure to criminalize the acts of corporate America, and failure to remove racial profiling and the stigma of being poor as criminal). These failures result in a perpetual abundance of criminals and a system in which the rich get richer and the poor get prison."
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