Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wacquant, Loïc J. D.

Series:

Politics, history, and culture.

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Politics, history, and culture

Standardized Title:

Punir les pauvres. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imprisonment--Social aspects--United States.

Imprisonment.

Imprisonment--Social aspects--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.

Contents:

Prologue : America as living laboratory for 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 siåcle

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.

Notes:

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613065360

9781283065368

1283065363

9780822344223

082234422X

OCLC:

404091956