The Divide

This scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis takes readers on a galvanizing journey through both sides of an unjust system of justice-the fun-house-mirror worlds of the untouchably wealthy and the criminalized poor. Through astonishing—and enraging—accounts of the high-stakes capers of the wealthy and nightmare stories of regular people caught in the Divide’s punishing logic, the book explores growing wealth inequality and mass incarceration in America's new system of justice. The Divide is an important book that powerfully documents one of the greatest challenges facing us in contemporary American life.