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Author Wacquant, Loic J. D.

Uniform Title Punir les pauvres. English
Title Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loic Wacquant.

Imprint Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  365.6086942 W116p 2009    ---  Available
Edition English language ed.
Description xxiii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Politics, history, and culture
Politics, history, and culture.
Note "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p.
Translated from the French.
Bibliography 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.
Subject 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-
ISBN 082234422X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822344049 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822344041 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822344223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 318580500
BWX R9783997
BWX R8784317
CDX 9510844
AU@ 000043793290
CDX 9463901

 
    
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