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Review Of The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison By Jeffrey Reiman

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Jeffrey Reiman, author of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, first published his book in 1979, it is now in its sixth edition, and he has continued to revise it as he keeps up on criminal justice statistics and other trends in the system. This book he wrote is like a textbook for the class with many different sources cited to give the thorough knowledge for criminal justice major. As we read through the book we will get to know that he figured out something very deeply about cultural sense, which helped him a lot to collect public information. The main focus of this book is the title itself, because the rich get richer and the poor get prison, says a lot, which is happening in the country due to our present economic system. In this system author is trying to define the true definition of crime and criminal, uneven wealth distribution, poverty and criminal justice system that does to protect us against the gravest …show more content…

And, the crime starts with the street only, Reiman told that in the title only that poor get prison, so this is the reason why poor gets prison, because they are doing street crimes. We are totally unaware of those people so we are not able understand that how they create crime, as per my assumption most probable cause of the crime is the drugs, money and depression. But, our society is totally unaware of this that those people might also change, if we provide them good education, but instead of providing them positive and good habits they are blaming them as always. Moreover, our society is not understanding that if we do not provide them a good habit, they will get more influenced by the readily available guns and all those stuff to increase more crime rates. However, Reiman is telling that we have to provide them as much as possible support and positivity to decrease the crime

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