Punishing the Poor The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Name: Punishing the Poor The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
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ISBN: 9780822344223

ISBN-10: 082234422X

ISBN-13: 9780822344223

Edition: 2009

Authors: Loï¿½c Wacquant, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz

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The punitive turn taken by penal policies in advanced societies over the past two decades does not pertain to the traditional duo of crime and punishment. Rather, it heralds the establishment of a new government of social insecurity aimed at molding the conduct of the men and women caught in the turbulence of economic deregulation and the conversion of welfare into a springboard toward precarious employment. Within this "liberal-paternalist" apparatus, the prison has recovered its original mission: to tame the populations and the territories rebellious to the emerging economic and moral order, and to ritually reassert the fortitude of the rulers. It is in the United States that this new…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518



Tables and Figures


Prologue: America as Living Laboratory of the Neoliberal Future



Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge



Poverty of the Social State



The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era



Welfare "Reform" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft



Grandeur of the Penal State



The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siecle



The Coming of Carceral "Big Government"



Privileged Targets



The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging Black Subproletarians



Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders



European Declinations



The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason



Carceral Aberration Comes to France


Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index