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The rich get richer and the poor get prison

ideology, class, and criminal justice

by Jeffrey H. Reiman

1984 eng

Explores the connections between class and criminal justice, starting with the definition of crimes in the lawbooks and progressing through familiar stages of the system, to show that the same pattern persists: the acts defined legally as crimes, the acts treated seriously as crimes, tend to be the …

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