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Debt to Society : Accounting for Life under Capitalism /

It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a "debt to society"? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and univer...

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Auteur principal: Joseph, Miranda (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Modes of Accounting; 1 Accounting for Debt: Toward a Methodology of Critical Abstraction; 2 Accounting for Justice: Beyond Liberal Calculations of Debt and Crime; 3 Accounting for Time: The Entrepreneurial Subject in Crisis; 4 Accounting for Gender: Norms and Pathologies of Personal Finance; 5 Accounting for Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value in the Academy.