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Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America /
"In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Politics and society in modern America.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Addicts into citizens: the tribulations of New York's treatment regime
- The public versus the pushers: enacting New York's Rockefeller drug laws
- The welfare mess: reimagining the social contract
- Welfare is a cancer: economic citizenship in the age of Reagan
- Unmaking the rehabilitative ideal
- Going berserk for punishment: a prelude to mass incarceration
- Conclusion: forging an "underclass."