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Punishing the Poor : The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity /

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.