Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loïc Wacquant

Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Loïc Wacquant

408 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracia...

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