How long does it take to read The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison?
ideology, class, and criminal justice
Jeffrey H. Reiman
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey H. Reiman takes about 4 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 226 pages, about 62,150 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Explores the connections between class and criminal justice, starting with the definition of crimes in the lawbooks and progressing through familiar stages of the system, to show that the same pattern persists: the acts defined legally as crimes, the acts treated seriously as crimes, tend to be the acts committed by poor people, often poor nonwhite people. Harmful acts of the well-off tend rarely to be defined as crimes, and when they are so defined, tend not to be treated as serious crimes. [Preface].
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice, Social classes, Social policy, Ideology, Strafrecht, Criminologie
