Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity /
Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant. - English language edition. - xxiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Politics, history, and culture . - Politics, history, and culture. .
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p. Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-365) and index.
Prologue : America as living laboratory of the neoliberal future -- Social insecurity and the punitive upsurge -- The criminalization of poverty in the post-civil rights era -- Welfare "reform" as poor discipline and statecraft -- The great confinement of the fin de siècle -- The coming of carceral "big government" -- The prison as surrogate ghetto : encaging the black subproletarians -- Moralism and punitive panopticism : hunting down sex offenders -- The scholarly myths of the new law-and-order reason -- Carceral aberration comes to French -- Theoretical coda : a sketch of the neoliberal state.
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Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States
Imprisonment--Social aspects--European Union countries
Neoliberalism--Social aspects--United States
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
Poor--Government policy--United States
Prison-industrial complex--United States
United States--Social policy--1993-
HV9471 / .W3313 2009
365.6086942
Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant. - English language edition. - xxiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Politics, history, and culture . - Politics, history, and culture. .
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p. Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-365) and index.
Prologue : America as living laboratory of the neoliberal future -- Social insecurity and the punitive upsurge -- The criminalization of poverty in the post-civil rights era -- Welfare "reform" as poor discipline and statecraft -- The great confinement of the fin de siècle -- The coming of carceral "big government" -- The prison as surrogate ghetto : encaging the black subproletarians -- Moralism and punitive panopticism : hunting down sex offenders -- The scholarly myths of the new law-and-order reason -- Carceral aberration comes to French -- Theoretical coda : a sketch of the neoliberal state.
0822344041 9780822344049 082234422X 9780822344223
2009003275
Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States
Imprisonment--Social aspects--European Union countries
Neoliberalism--Social aspects--United States
Criminal justice, Administration of--United States
Poor--Government policy--United States
Prison-industrial complex--United States
United States--Social policy--1993-
HV9471 / .W3313 2009
365.6086942