Wacquant, Loic
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Politics, History, & Culture)
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- ISBN 13:
- 9780822344223
- author:
- Wacquant, Loic
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Pages:
- 400
- Dimensions:
- 15.75 x 2.54 x 23.37 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Criminology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loïc Wacquant
This book examines the relationship between penal policy and social insecurity in the United States, tracing the roots of the punitive turn in penal policy to the fragmentation of wage labor and the reshaping of the ethnoracial hierarchy.
Wacquant argues that the prison has become a core political institution, reflecting the broader reconstruction of the state under neoliberalism, which seeks to impose precarious employment and curb urban disorders through a paternalist program of penalization of poverty.
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