Punishing the poor : the neoliberal government of social insecurity / Loïc Wacquant.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Punir les pauvres. English
Politics, history, and culture.
Main Author: Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Edition:English language edition.
Series:Politics, history, and culture.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States.
Imprisonment > Social aspects > European Union countries.
Physical Description:xxiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prologue : 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.