Analysis Of Should Money Get You Out Of Everything By Ethan Couch

The case sends the message that “families that have money, you can drink and drive . This is a very , very dangerous thing we're telling our children.” This proves that “society is often Unequal” because poor people are treated differently than the rich people.

The book "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" by Jeffrey H. Reiman provides a very interesting account of how the rich are being treated by the criminal justice system in a more favorable than the poorer and nonviolent criminals who are generally mistreated. Reiman started his book by stating that the recently noted decline in crime rate is skewed. This is clear in the 12th page of his book when he stated that After more than 20 years of telling us that crime was growing out of control and proposing more cops and tougher laws and more prisons, crime rates are now coming down and politicians are jumping to claim credit for the reductions" (Reiman ,p. 12).The book is a well written text that effectively examines the various harmful acts that are committed by the rich in our society. These harmful acts include bribery, medical crimes, and embezzlement of public funds, crime against consumers as well as environmental crimes such as unsafe workplaces as well as pollution among many others. Reiman's book, in its thorough analysis of the various harmful acts noted that there is a particular bias against the poor people within the American criminal justice system.He demonstrated that acts like murder, assault and theft that are committed by the poor people are treated by the criminal justice system as very serious crimes while on the other hand, other harmful acts like bribery, medical crimes, embezzlement of public funds, crime against consumers as well as

onya Couch was arrested for helping her son flee the state and avoid probation hearing. We later found out that she was on bond on one million and then they since lower the bond to seventy- five thousand. What we learn it that Couch and her son had party in somewhere out in Mexico because someone post a picture of the son partying with friend. Although he wasn’t driving he was already on probation for killing four people few years back for DUI and for the consequence of that they later charged him with ten-year probation. I do fell his punishment that he should at least get a misdemeanor for his action and spend some time in jail. The problem with these kids now days especially the wealthy once is that they tend to get away a with lot of crimes.

Any rich person or semi-wealthy person could say that they or a relative were affected by Affluenza and could get away with the least possible punishment when they should have gotten a worse

Now Scott lives with a criminal record for the rest of his life, making it difficult for him to obtain a job. This experience provides an example of how people sometimes feel obligated to make bad choices for money. There are acceptable measures that Americans can do to create a decline of poverty in the U.S. In addition one way to

Since when is the punishment a person receives dependent on the amount of money they have and not the severity of the crime. With this philosophy guilty billionaires can commit murder with no repercussions except a slap on the wrist whereas innocent citizens that can’t afford a lawyer are being put away in jail for petty crimes. Yes, celebrities have earnt the money by choosing a business that pays thousands for an attractive person that can sing but why are we allowing these people to believe that they are above the law? Because the government is

"I felt the need to explain to people what Walter had taught me. Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. A system that denies the poor the legal help they need, that makes wealth and status more important than culpability, must be changed." (Stevenson 313)

" If you don't have money stay in jail your whole life unless anyone pays for you." said Judge

In recent years, there have been many cases of the rich “getting away with murder.” One example that I absolutely love is, Ethan Couch.All at the age of 16, Ethan Couch was driving under the influence of stolen beer cases. When he killed 4 people and injured 9 people all together. Couch was then indicted with 4 charges of intoxicated manslaughter, but the judge only gave him 10 years of probation. Since it was argued that he had “affluenza.” Affluenza’s dictionary definition is “a psychological malaise supposedly affecting wealthy young people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation.” This basically gave him a get out jail free card, since his parents were too rich to teach him to be a

Throughout history, there have been good people and bad ones, and a major deciding factor in this is background. The chances of being dissatisfactory are often increased if a person has a low income or the person is living in a poor neighborhood and is a person of color. These illegal activities that are commonly found in poorer areas often lead a person down the wrong path in life. These paths are not the path to success, but a path to a jail cell. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore demonstrates the effects of drugs and violence, two common actions that end up with an unfortunate aftermath. Bryan Stevenson mentions the consequences of being bad differ due to race and wealth in his TED Talk, “We need to talk about injustice”. In “Brown VS. Board of Education: 50 years later segregation by Income”, Nanette Asimov reports how “wealth has created separate and unequal schools”, this article relates to Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk in the fact that the both refer to how schools have unequal opportunities due to money, which is a factor of background. 60 Minutes reports David Cash’s story, should he be charged for his actions? Raised in a poor neighborhood where parents are unable to pay their bills, a child’s chances of success are significantly lower than a child whose parents can provide every wish for them. A child who was raised in a poor neighborhood, has much greater chances of having a worse outcome in life, due to the influences of the poor neighborhood and what people have

The criminal justice system is made for two groups of people: the poor and the wealthy.

I never realized how money affects the level of justice people receive. As perfectly exemplified through the OJ Simpson, the richer a person is, the better chance they have at getting the verdict they desire. Although not all for hire defense lawyers are better than public defenders, but good defense lawyers are able to charge so much money because they are extremely good at their job and help get their client acquitted. In any other circumstance other than OJ Simpson, a black male accused of double homicide would never have been able to get acquitted. OJ could afford a legal team made up of experts and his legal team costed him $50,000 a day, more than some people make in a whole year. If he wasn’t rich, he would currently be in jail and there for the rest of his life. This is true most cases; money, which gets someone a better lawyer, gives them a better chance at a better sentence. To me, this says that having money and being rich means the law works more in their favor, or is able to argue better in their favor, and that is a fundamental error in our justice system.

And all he got 10 years of probation and time in a very nice rehab center. His legal team claimed that “couch’s wealthy upbringing and a lack of consequences for his actions caused him to suffer from ‘Affluenza’. ”(abc news) I think that that’s the dumbest excuse to use to get away for killing 4 people and injuring a lot more.

In America sometimes if you are rich and can afford a good lawyer, you will get a lesser sentence or no sentenced at all. If a person feels that he or she is not part of society, they might have to result to crime. I think that is why most criminals that get out of prison and have no rehabilitation program or consider not acceptable to society because they are a criminal, in up back in prison. When spend billions of dollars overseas helping other countries, who don’t like us, why not invest the money in our own country to help the homeless, and the criminals who get out of prison.

The documentary, Mind Over Money, discusses the impact of emotions on financial decisions. Our behavior is bizarre when it comes to money. This video clearly shows this effect in its first example. When a 20-dollar bill was auctioned off, two buyers paid over the bill’s value. People do not use the information they should not be using, but use other information that is said to be crazy to use. The University of Chicago has given rise to the most Nobel prize winners in economics in the world. Here, the theory of economics shows that having rational behavior is one of the most relied on model of economics. Behavior is a very important concept since people are seen to work in their own self-interest.