Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison - Thinking Critically About Class and Criminal Justice

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Reiman is the William Fraser McDowell Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at American University in Washington, DC. Dr. Reiman is the author of In Defense of Political Philosophy (1972), Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy (1990), Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice (1997), The Death Penalty: For and Against (with Louis P. Pojman, 1998), Abortion and the Ways We Value Human Life (1999), As Free and as Just as Possible (2012), and more than 60 articles in philosophy and criminal justice journals and anthologies. Paul Leighton is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Leighton is the co-author of Punishment for Sale (with Donna Selman, 2010) and Class, Race, Gender and Crime (with Gregg Barak and Allison Cotton, 5th edition, 2018). He has been President of the board of his local domestic violence shelter and is currently head of the advisory board of his university’s food pantry. Zusammenfassung This book tells readers that much of what goes on in the criminal justice system violates citizens' sense of basic fairness. Data shows that the criminal justice system does not function in the way it says it does nor in the way that readers believe it should. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Criminal Justice Through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing 1. Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure 2. A Crime by Any Other Name … 3. ... And the Poor Get Prison 4. To the Vanquished Belong the Spoils: Who Is Winning the Losing War Against Crime? Conclusion: Criminal Justice or Criminal Justice Appendix I: The Marxian Critique of Criminal Justice Appendix II: Between Philosophy and Criminology

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• Authors: Paul Leighton, Leighton Paul, Jeffrey Reiman, Jeffrey (American University Reiman, Jeffrey H. (American University Usa) Leigh Reiman, Jeffrey Leighton Reiman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780367231781
• ISBN: 978-0-367-23178-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Crime and criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Causes & Prevention Of Crime