Abstract Anthony Grasso's Dual Justice: America's Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime offers a timely and compelling interdisciplinary analysis of how the U.S. criminal justice system remains “one for the rich and one for the poor.” Drawing extensively on the sociology of punishment, white-collar crime scholarship, political science, and legal history, Grasso traces the shared Progressive Era origins of rehabilitative and regulatory ideologies, both rooted in the eugenics movement, and shows how they cast marginalized populations as “incorrigible” and corporations and business elites as “respectable citizens” across legislative debates, academic discourse, and public rhetoric. The book's historical and theoretical breadth distinguishes it as an essential contribution that unifies the study of the carceral and regulatory states. This review analyzes Grasso's intellectual contributions while encouraging continued reflection on the interplay between the two ideologies and their implications for reform. Overall, Dual Justice revitalizes a vital and enduring conversation about the ideological foundations of punishment, power, and inequality in American criminal justice.
Li Huang (Wed,) studied this question.