Word: reiman
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...Kennedy family, which went from bootlegging to political eminence in just one generation. More broadly, we find that one of the surest ways to escape getting convicted of a crime is to achieve middle-class standing. Consider the opening paragraph of this New York Times article, quoted in Jeffrey Reiman's The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison...
...Reiman points out that in 1972, nearly half of all jail inmates had pre-arrest incomes of less than $2000, in federal prisons in 1970, almost 60 percent made less than $2000 the year before. And yet a President's Crime Commission has estimated that "91 percent of all Americans have violated laws that could have subjected them to a term of imprisonment at one time in their lives." What about the other crooks...
Poverty causes crime, but not in the way most people assume. The poor are more likely to be arrested, convicted, and sentenced to long terms than their more affluent fellow criminals. In a single case during the 1960s, according to Reiman, seven executives were found to have rigged electrical equipment prices, in a scheme that cost the public over a billion dollars. They were sentenced to 30 days each. In 1973, by contrast, the average sentence for burglary was five years...
...Reiman: That's hard to say. I think that here are some science reporters and medical reporters who may be persuaded by our position although they...