The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice.

Michael A. Rustigan, Jeffrey Reiman

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1980 · 668 citations · 0 references

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Introduction. Criminal Justice through the Looking Glass, or Winning by Losing Chapter 1. Crime Control in America: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure Chapter 2. A Crime by Any Other Name Chapter 3. And the Poor Get Prison Chapter 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