Illustrates the problem of financial inequality in the American justice method. The best-selling textual content, The wealthy Get Richer and the bad Get Prison contends that the felony justice process is biased opposed to the terrible from begin to finish.  The authors argue that even sooner than the method of arrest, trial, and sentencing, the procedure is biased opposed to the negative in what it chooses to regard as crime.

The authors exhibit that various acts of the well-off--such as their refusal to make places of work secure, refusal to curtail lethal pollutants, advertising of pointless surgical procedure, and prescriptions for pointless drugs--cause as a lot damage because the acts of the bad which are handled as crimes. notwithstanding, the harmful acts of the well-off are nearly by no means taken care of as crimes, and after they are, they're virtually by no means handled as significantly because the crimes of the poor.  not just does the legal justice method fail to guard opposed to the dangerous acts of well-off humans, it additionally fails to treatment the factors of crime, similar to poverty. This ends up in a wide inhabitants of terrible criminals in our prisons and in our media. The authors contend that the belief of crime as a piece of the terrible serves the pursuits of the wealthy and robust whereas conveying a deceptive thought that the true hazard to american citizens comes from the ground of society instead of the top.

Learning Goals

• Upon finishing this booklet, readers may be capable to:


• Examine the legal justice method throughout the lens of the poor.


• Understand that a lot of what is going on within the legal justice method violates one’s personal feel of fairness.


• Morally review the felony justice system’s failures.


• Identify the kind of legislature that's biased opposed to the poor.