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Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity
- Title
- Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant.
- Author
- Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
- Publication
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 384 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Politics, history, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Punir les pauvres. English
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Alternative Title
- Punir les pauvres.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p.
- Translated from the French.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-365) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue. America as living laboratory of the neoliberal future -- 1. Social insecurity and the punitive upsurge -- 2. The criminalization of poverty in the post-civil rights era -- 3. Welfare "reform" as poor discipline and statecraft -- 4. The great confinement of the fin de siecle -- 5. The coming of Carceral "big government" -- 6. The prison as surrogate ghetto : encaging black subproletarians -- 7. Moralism and punitive panopticism : hunting down sex offenders -- 8. The scholarly myths of the new law-and-order reason -- 9. Carceral aberration comes to France -- Theoretical coda : a sketch of the neoliberal state.
- ISBN
- 9780822344049 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822344041 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822344223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 082234422X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009003275
- 99933885863
- OCLC
- ocn294887693
- 294887693
- SCSB-5473060
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries