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the neoliberal government of social insecurity

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Punishing the poor

the neoliberal government of social insecurity

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English
Pages
384

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Cover of: Punishing the Poor
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
2009, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Punishing the poor
Punishing the poor: the neoliberal government of social insecurity
2009, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Punishing the Poor
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
2009, Duke University Press
in English
Cover of: Punir les pauvres
Punir les pauvres: le nouveau gouvernement de l'insécurité sociale
2004, Agone
in French

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Table of Contents

Prologue : America as living laboratory for 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 siåcle
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.

Edition Notes

"A John Hope Franklin Center book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Durham [NC]
Series
Politics, history, and culture

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
365/.6086942
Library of Congress
HV9471 .W3313 2009, HV9471.W3313 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
384

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23019462M
Internet Archive
punishingpoorneo00wacq
ISBN 13
9780822344049, 9780822344223
LCCN
2009003275
OCLC/WorldCat
294887693
Library Thing
8281175
Goodreads
6504869

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