The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison write by Jeffrey Reiman. This book was released on 2020-06-29. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren’t the tools of the criminal justice system being used to protect Americans from predatory business practices and to punish well-off people who cause widespread harm? 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? The Rich Get Richer shows readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens’ sense of basic fairness. It presents extensive evidence from mainstream data that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should. The authors develop a theoretical perspective from which readers might understand these failures and evaluate them morally—and they to do it in a short text written in plain language. Readers who are not convinced about the larger theoretical perspective will still have engaged in extensive critical thinking to identify their own taken-for-granted assumptions about crime and criminal justice, as well as uncover the effects of power on social practices. This engagement helps readers develop their own worldview. New to this edition: Presents recent data comparing the harms due to criminal activity with the harms of dangerous—but not criminal—corporate actions Updates statistics on crime, victimization, incarceration, wealth, and discrimination Increased material for thinking critically about criminal justice and criminology Increased discussion of the criminality of middle- and upper-class youth Increased coverage of role of criminal justice fines and fees in generating revenue for government, and how algorithms reproduce class bias while seeming objective Streamlined and condensed prose for greater clarity
The Great Crime And Its Moral
The Great Crime And Its Moral - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Crime And Its Moral write by John Selden Willmore. This book was released on 2019-04-03. The Great Crime And Its Moral available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Safety Utopia
The Safety Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Safety Utopia write by Hans Boutellier. This book was released on 2014-03-14. The Safety Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that crime-related problems would occupy such a prominent position in cultural awareness. Crime is on the rise, the public attention devoted to it has increased even more, and its political importance has mushroomed. The major change in the 1990s was perhaps the transformation of crime into a safety issue. Crime is no longer a matter involving offenders, victims, the police and the courts, it involves everyone and any number of agencies and institutions from security companies to the local authorities and from schools to pub and restaurant owners. Crime has become a much larger complex than the judicial system—a complex organized mentally and institutionally around this one concept of safety. In this book I make an effort to get to the bottom of this complex. It is the sequel to my dissertation Crime and Morality—The Moral Signi?cance of Criminal Justice in a Postmodern Culture (2000), where I hold that the victim became the essence of crime in Western culture, and that this in turn shaped public morality. In the second half of the twentieth century, a personal morality based on an awareness of our own and other people’s vulnerability, i. e. potential victimhood, succeeded the ethics of duty.
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison write by Jeffrey H. Reiman. This book was released on 1979. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **** Cited in BCL3. On the causes, moral implications, and mechanisms of the American criminal justice system's failure. New statistics are presented in this third edition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Punishment, Danger and Stigma
Punishment, Danger and Stigma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Punishment, Danger and Stigma write by Nigel Walker. This book was released on 1980. Punishment, Danger and Stigma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
