Punishing the Poor
by Wacquant, LocFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-06-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"This powerful book shows that America's harsh penal policies are of a piece with our harsh social policies and that both can be understood as a symbolic and material apparatus to control the marginal populations created by neoliberal globalization. A tour de force!"--Frances Fox Piven, co-author of "Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare"
Author Biography
Loic Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie europeenne, Paris
Table of Contents
| Tables and Figures | p. ix |
| Prologue: America as Living Laboratory of the Neoliberal Future | p. xi |
| Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge | p. 1 |
| Poverty of the Social State | |
| The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era | p. 41 |
| Welfare "Reform" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft | p. 76 |
| Grandeur of the Penal State | |
| The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siecle | p. 113 |
| The Coming of Carceral "Big Government" | p. 151 |
| Privileged Targets | |
| The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging Black Subproletarians | p. 195 |
| Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders | p. 209 |
| European Declinations | |
| The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason | p. 243 |
| Carceral Aberration Comes to France | p. 270 |
| Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State | p. 287 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 315 |
| Notes | p. 319 |
| Index | p. 367 |
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