"The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison"
             "Might makes right"`(189, Ewick & Silbey). This quote best explains Reiman's basic argument that law is both partial and impartial, but only partial through power and to whom is in control. Legality is emphasized by the government, the rich, the judge in the courtroom, and the police, these people decide what is legal and the poor are just left to abide by what is deemed legal. Reiman stresses that the law is unable to resolve disputes recognize the truth or respond to injustice, or its biggest constrain which is the inability to respond to simple problems of everyday life. "Numerous studies have documented the astounding incidence of disease, injury, and death due to hazards in the workplace...most of this carnage is refusal of management to pay for safety measures and government to enforce safety standards (77, Reiman). This is an prime example expressing the laws constraint. It cannot react quickly to serious environmental hazards in the work place for the poor, these problems are noticed but rarely treated because achieving results through the law requires expertise, mobilizing resources, influencing connections, ability to find a loop-hole in the system, and experience which the poor have no access to. Law requires time and space and what requires to break into that is expertise. As a result the criminal justice system fails to reduce crime. What is it that allows things to get done, how does capacity influence this?
             Capacity, an important part in the criminal justice system. "we have seen an enormous increase in the number of Americans behind bars...between 1980 and 2001 persons incarcerated more then quadrupled growing from 329,000 to nearly 1.4 million (Reiman, 11). Capacity reflects the ability to get things done within the system of law and that requires power, something the poor do not possess or have access to. As a result crime rates rocket and incarceration numbers...