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100 1 $aWacquant, Loïc J. D.
240 10 $aPunir les pauvres.$lEnglish
245 10 $aPunishing the poor :$bthe neoliberal government of social insecurity /$cLoïc Wacquant.
250 $aEnglish language ed.
260 $aDurham [NC] :$bDuke University Press,$c2009.
300 $axxiii, 384 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aPolitics, history, and culture
500 $a"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p.
500 $aTranslated from the French.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-365) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : 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.
520 $aThe 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 ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive 'workfare' and expansive 'prisonfare' under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial proletariat. It also erects a garish theater of civic morality on whose stage political elites can orchestrate the public vituperation of deviant figures - the teenage 'welfare mother, ' the ghetto 'street thug, ' and the roaming 'sex predator' - and close the legitimacy deficit they suffer when they discard the established government mission of social and economic protection. By bringing developments in welfare and criminal justice into a single analytic framework attentive to both the instrumental and communicative moments of public policy, Punishing the Poor shows that the prison is not a mere technical implement for law enforcement but a core political institution. And it reveals that the capitalist revolution from above called neoliberalism entails not the advent of 'small government' but the building of an overgrown and intrusive penal state deeply injurious to the ideals of democratic citizenship.
650 0 $aImprisonment$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aImprisonment$xSocial aspects$zEuropean Union countries.
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