Prisons of Poverty

Name: Prisons of Poverty
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ISBN: 9780816639014

ISBN-10: 0816639019

ISBN-13: 9780816639014

Edition: 2009

Authors: Loï¿½c Wacquant

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 12/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction: The Return of the Prison



How America Exports Its Penal Common Sense


Manhattan, Crucible of the New Penal Reason


The Globalization of "Zero Tolerance"


London, Trading Post and Acclimation Chamber


Importers and Collaborators


The Academic Pidgin of Neoliberal Penality



From Social State to Penal State: American Realities, European Possibilities


Penal Policy as Social Policy: Imprisoning America's Poor


Precarious Workers, Foreigners, Addicts: The Preferred "Clients" of European Prisons


Discipline and Punish at the Fin de Sieï¿½cle: Toward Social Panopticism


After Monetary Europe, Police and Penitentiary Europe?



The Great Penal Leap Backward: Incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton


The Great American Carceral Boom


A Correctional Marshall Plan


The Crime-Incarceration Disconnect


The Demise of Rehabilitation and the Politicization of Crime


The Color of Punitiveness


Afterword: A Civic Sociology of Neoliberal Penality


Notes


Index