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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison written by: Jeffery Reiman Book Review By:   Amy M. Romanus Texas A&M University-Commerce Department of Sociology
Sources of Street Crime ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Poverty as a Source of Crime Youngsters who figure prominently in arrest statistics are not drawn equally from all economic strata; They are known to be……..Poor ghetto Youth! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Poverty as a Source of Crime Even if we do not know how poverty  causes  crime, we do nothing to improve the life chances of the inner city poor. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Unemployment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Rutgers University  Professor of Criminal Justice Todd Clear writes: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What Happens?  PRISON! ,[object Object],[object Object]
The Sentencing Project ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Division of Labor in Society by: Emile Durkheim ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Wayward Puritans by:  Kai T. Erickson ,[object Object],[object Object]
The Condition of the Working Class in England  by:  Frederick Engels ,[object Object]
Labeling Crime ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Company In Mine Deaths Set to Pay a Big Fine New York Times, February 21, 1993, p. A19. ,[object Object],[object Object]
Mass Murder on the 5:33 New York Times, December 10, 1993. p.A34 ,[object Object],[object Object]
WHY? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Study of Crime…..    Prince George’s County Washington, DC Blacks make up 25% of the Population “Arrest Data Reveal Profile of Suspect.”  Washington Post, September 16, 1975. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
QUOTES  about the TYPICAL CRIMINAL ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
TYPICAL CRIMINAL ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Criminal Justice System Creating the Reality We See ,[object Object],[object Object]
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These More Costly Acts  and Threats to our Wellbeing ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
What Needs Justification Becomes Proof of Justification ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Decisions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Typical Crime One-on-One Harm ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Model of One-on-One HARM ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Legitimate Executive….. Indirectly Harms ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Americans Accept the Belief Encouraged by Politicians and Media  ,[object Object],[object Object]
Why??   Four Objections For Defenders ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
An Obligation to Aid People ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Occupational Death  Versus  Murder  For 1995: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Work May Be Dangerous  to Your Health ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Health Care May Be Dangerous to Your Health  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Surgical Operations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Harvard Medical Practice Study ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Harvard Medical Practice Study ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Chemical Warfare ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The American Government ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The National Cancer Institute Has Identified Carcinogens in Drinking Water ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Positive Correlation Between  Residential Poverty and nearness to Toxic Wastes (Jay M. Gould,  Quality of Life in American Neighborhoods: Levels of Affluence, Toxic Waste, and Cancer Mortality in Zip Code Areas  Boulder: Westview Press, 1986, pp. 22-28).   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Toxic Food Additives And Pesticides ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Poverty Kills ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1996: Less Money Means…. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
…… And the Poor Get Prison ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
For The Same Criminal Behavior THE POOR ARE………….. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Is The System Failing? The Pyrrhic Defeat Theory ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Together   The Pyrrhic Defeat Theory ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Historical Inertia ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Criminal Justice System In Support of Established Institutions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
KARL MARX (Karl Marx  The German Ideology, in the Marx-Engles Reader, ed., Tucker p. 136) ,[object Object],[object Object]
John Stuart Mill ,[object Object],[object Object]
In The End…….  I agree with Reiman, that   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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