Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-365) and index.
Contents
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 siecle -- 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.