Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohler-Hausmann, Julilly, author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Politics and society in modern America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare.

United States--History--1969-.

United States.

History.

Nineteen seventies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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 serve or represent. Getting Tough sheds light on how this unprecedented growth of the penal system and the evisceration of the nation's welfare programs developed hand in hand. Julily Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by struggles over how to interpret and respond to the inequality and disorder that crested during this period."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

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

Forging an "underclass".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780691174525

0691174520

OCLC:

980915169