Peter Squires

Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality

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ISBN 13:: 9781447300007
author:: Peter Squires
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Policy Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2013
Pages:: 304
Dimensions:: 23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 centimetres
Genre:: Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Criminology,
Condition:: New
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Criminalisation and advanced marginality by Peter Squires and John Lea offers a critical assessment of Loïc Wacquant's influential work on the neo-liberal government of crime. This book provides a bold analysis of how the US-led revolution in law and order has transformed the welfare state into a disciplinary and penal state. The authors, criminologists and policy analysts, apply Wacquant's ideas to explore issues of gender, resistance, conflict, and history, enriching his analyses and raising important questions about the spread of neo-liberal crime control measures. The book concludes with a response from Loïc Wacquant himself, engaging in a constructive but critical dialogue with the contributors. This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on criminology and social policy, making it an exciting read for academics and students of these subjects.

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