Bibliograph

Punishing the poor, the neoliberal government of social insecurity, Loïc Wacquant

Type

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Punishing the poor, the neoliberal government of social insecurity, Loïc Wacquant

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical notes and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Punishing the poor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

294887693

Responsibility statement

Loïc Wacquant

Series statement

Politics, history, and cultureJohn Hope Franklin Center book

Sub title

the neoliberal government of social insecurity

Table Of Contents

Prologue : America as living laboratory of 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 siècle -- 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

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