Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Politics, history, and culturePublisher: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009Edition: English language editionDescription: xxiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0822344041
- 9780822344049
- 082234422X
- 9780822344223
- Punir les pauvres. English
- 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-
- 365.6086942 22
- HV9471 .W3313 2009
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 365.6086942 WAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A469159B |
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| 365.45 SOL The Gulag archipelago 1918-1956. | 365.45 SOL The Gulag archipelago 1918-1956. | 365.45 TIM Prisoner without a name, cell without a number / | 365.6086942 WAC Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / | 365.6092 JUS Prisoner / | 365.6092 MCN Cry of a man running / | 365.60941 PRI The prisoner / |
"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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