Wacquant / Loic Wacquant / Steinmetz Punishing the Poor

The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9225-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wacquant, Loïc

Loic Wacquant, Wacquant

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figures ix

Prologue: America as Living Laboratory for the Neoliberal Future xi

1. Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge 1

Part I: Poverty of the Social State

2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era 41

3. Welfare "Reform" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft 76

Part II: Grandeur of the Penal State

4. The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siècle 113

5. The Coming of Carceral "Big Government" 151

Part III.

6. The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging the Black Subproletarians 195

7. Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders 209

Part IV: European Declinations

8. The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason 243

9. Carceral Aberration Comes to French 270

Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State 287

Acknowledgments 315

Endnotes 319

Index 367

Über Autor(innen)

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. He is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association. His recent books include Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality, Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, and Pierre Bourdieu and Democratic Politics. He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.