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"One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017"
"Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians"
"A vital reminder that reactionary ideas gestate at the local level before they get nationalized. And, with enough organizing, so too might emancipatory ones."---Dan Berger, Truthout
"This extraordinary book analyzes changing state-level policies toward drugs, welfare, and incarceration in the 1970s in the US, revealing connections between welfare and imprisonment as institutions of social regulation. . . . Drawing on statements and letters from officials, activists, prisoners, welfare recipients, and concerned citizens, Kohler-Hausmann illuminates the often contradictory and always contingent dialogues through which 'tough' policies were legitimized and enacted. . . . The inclusion of so many voices leads to a lively and engaging read." * Choice *

Getting Tough

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    A Paperback / softback by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 28 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9780691191546
      978-0691191546
      ISBN-10 0691191549
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      Political science and theory Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017"
      "Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians"
      "A vital reminder that reactionary ideas gestate at the local level before they get nationalized. And, with enough organizing, so too might emancipatory ones."---Dan Berger, Truthout
      "This extraordinary book analyzes changing state-level policies toward drugs, welfare, and incarceration in the 1970s in the US, revealing connections between welfare and imprisonment as institutions of social regulation. . . . Drawing on statements and letters from officials, activists, prisoners, welfare recipients, and concerned citizens, Kohler-Hausmann illuminates the often contradictory and always contingent dialogues through which 'tough' policies were legitimized and enacted. . . . The inclusion of so many voices leads to a lively and engaging read." * Choice *

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