{"product_id":"rich-crime-poor-crime-inequality-and-the-rule-of-law-paperback","title":"Rich Crime, Poor Crime: Inequality and the Rule of Law - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColin Webster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 21st century Britain the rich are protected while the poor punished. \u003cem\u003eRich Crime, Poor Crime\u003c\/em\u003e shows how contemporary British society is founded on a legacy of past plunder and dispossession by elites against the rest. Over centuries, power and property have been consolidated in the hands of a few and coded in legal systems that favoured the rich and created extreme inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eColin Webster puts a spotlight on Britain's hereditary and new ruling classes, whose inherited entanglements in land ownership, war and conquest, new world slavery, finance, trade, industry and empire allow them to accumulate and grow capital and wealth at the expense of others. He reveals a system facilitated by political corruption and wealth that accommodates serious wrongdoing - such as corporate, banking and accounting fraud, money laundering and tax evasion - and does substantial harm to fellow Britons. Examining the conditions of extreme inequality that give rise to poor crime and rich crime - and to the social response to both types of crime - we find them to be deeply implicated one with the other.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRich Crime, Poor Crime\u003c\/em\u003e is vital reading for academics and professionals interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin Webster\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Leeds Beckett University, UK, and a member of the Editorial Board of the \u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Criminology\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51780301652256,"sku":"9781839098253","price":52.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ba1ed675522cf9b4263c9066a4aeb678.webp?v=1780525839","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rich-crime-poor-crime-inequality-and-the-rule-of-law-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}