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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Punishing the poor

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Loïc Wacquant

Politics, history, and culture

the neoliberal government of social insecurity

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