Getting Tough Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America

Name: Getting Tough Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
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ISBN: 9780691174525

ISBN-10: 0691174520

ISBN-13: 9780691174525

Edition: 2017

Authors: Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

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In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to serve or represent. Getting Tough sheds light on how this unprecedented growth of the penal system and the evisceration of the nation's welfare programs developed hand in hand. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by struggles over how to interpret and respond to the inequality and disorder that crested during this period. When social movements and the slowing economy destabilized the…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/26/2017
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.45" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English