{"product_id":"punishing-the-poor-9780822344223","title":"Punishing the Poor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is an incisive and unflinching indictment of neoliberal state restructuring and poverty (mis)management. It brilliantly exposes structural and symbolic consonances between ‘workfare’ and ‘prisonfare,’ and between emergent, transnational policy orthodoxies in social and penal policy. Loïc Wacquant delivers a trenchant, radical, and entirely compelling analysis.”—\u003cb\u003eJamie Peck\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWorkfare States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This masterful treatment of contemporary punishment policies relocates the entire field within the political sweep of the twentieth-century ascendance of economic neoliberalism and the evisceration of the welfare state. Loïc Wacquant skillfully weds materialist and symbolic approaches in the best tradition of Marx and radical criminology, on the one hand, and Durkheim and Bourdieu, on the other. This provocative book is the counter-manifesto to neoliberal penality, a must-read for all students of criminal justice and citizenship.”—\u003cb\u003eBernard E. Harcourt\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This powerful book shows that America’s harsh penal policies are of a piece with our harsh social policies and that both can be understood as a symbolic and material apparatus to control the marginal populations created by neoliberal globalization. A tour de force!”—\u003cb\u003eFrances Fox Piven\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor \u003c\/i\u003emakes a novel and important contribution to welfare state scholarship, along with a host of disciplines and professions concerned with the plight of the urban poor. It should be read carefully and intentionally in graduate courses, in advanced undergraduate seminars, and among scholarly and professional circles alike.” -- Rueben Miller * Journal of Poverty *\u003cbr\u003e“An intellectual tour de force of how the American state’s interaction with citizens of colour is non-random and, for many African Americans, harmful.” -- Desmond King * British Journal of Criminology *\u003cbr\u003e“The book is often a good read. Wacquant is eclectic and smart. His writing is always lively. His argument is a very interesting one. . . . [Waquant] is brilliant and fascinating. His leaps of metaphor and his daring allusions are a continuous and often delightful spectacle. His passion ad commitment are laudable.” -- Andrew Abbott * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“[T]he story Wacquant tells is deeply disturbing. . . . \u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor \u003c\/i\u003eretains a certain power, reminding us of the hypermodern yet archaic world of prisons still in our midst.” -- Kim Phillips-Fein * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e“Amid a burgeoning field of both scholarly analysis and policy prescription, few writers can match the eloquence and passion with which Loïc Wacquant has identified, characterized and criticized the rise and rise of punishment. Combining a capacious and imaginative intellectual range with an unusual rhetorical gift, he has made a tremendous contribution to our awareness of these developments and of their implications, particularly for the poor and for other socially marginal groups. . . . [\u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is] one of the most eloquent, and disturbing, assessments of the phenomenon of penal excess in the USA, and one which his communicative skills have made accessible to a wide audience. This in itself counts as a substantial contribution to an intellectually intriguing, politically pressing, and ethically troubling field.” -- Nicola Lacey * British Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“I wish I could write like Loïc Wacquant. Not only in terms of the volume of published material, but also in terms of the quality of that rich output: how many articles and books in a relatively short period of time and on a variety of topics? Wacquant has made a massive contribution to social science, and has extremely rare qualities indeed. Passion and the power of persuasion drive his text repeatedly – sentence after sentence, paragraph after paragraph of layered arguments on the materialist anatomies of post-Fordist society, its urban forms, and contradictions.” -- Martin Jones * Criminology and Criminal Justice *\u003cbr\u003e“Loïc Wacquant is probably the most theoretically provocative commentator writing on urban marginality today. \u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor \u003c\/i\u003efurther solidifies that reputation. . . . \u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book. It should be read—and debated.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Sanford F. Schram * Social Service Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Loïc Wacquant’s book – part of a trilogy exploring changing social and political formations in the United States and beyond – presents a powerful and cogent analysis of how social insecurity is produced and governed. Its core argument addresses the changing state formations through which the poor are being managed, highlighting the double movement towards ‘prisonfare’ and ‘workfare.’ He traces the rise of the penal state in the United States, but argues that this needs to be seen as interwoven with the transformation of welfare into workfare. For me, this is a powerful and important claim, not least because penality and welfare are typically studied by different groups of people. Grasping how the state’s different apparatuses are being reformed typically falls outside conventional disciplinary perspectives. I am grateful for Wacquant’s intellectual insistence on, and rich empirical demonstration of, the importance of this way of thinking.” -- John Clarke * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e“Urgent and timely, absorbing and alarming, \u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e should warn us that Britain's increasing dependence on our penal state and the accelerating erosion of our social state are one and the same thing, and may prove a disaster.” -- Louise Hardwick * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e“Wacquant weaves together the narratives of American peculiarity and the global trends of neo-liberalism, and the amount of empirical detail demands that his arguments be taken seriously. His claim that ‘poor relief ’ has taken on a new meaning, relief not to the poor, but from the poor, ‘disappearing’ them from shrinking welfare rolls to expanding carceral dungeons, sums up the thesis of this timely and compelling book.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Barbara Hudson * British Journal of Criminology *\u003cbr\u003e“Wacquant’s comprehensive analysis proves, once again, not only that punishment is about more than crime, but also that criminology is too important to be left to criminologists. . . . Any attempt to build a strategy towards a political consensus for reducing needless punishment would be immensely strengthened by a careful reading of Wacquant’s work.” -- David Nelken * Criminology and Criminal Justice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTables and Figures ix\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: America as Living Laboratory for the Neoliberal Future xi\u003cbr\u003e 1. Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Poverty of the Social State \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era 41\u003cbr\u003e 3. Welfare \"Reform\" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft 76\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Grandeur of the Penal State \u003cbr\u003e 4. The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siècle 113\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Coming of Carceral \"Big Government\" 151\u003cbr\u003e Part III. \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging the Black Subproletarians 195\u003cbr\u003e 7. Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders 209\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: European Declinations \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason 243\u003cbr\u003e 9. Carceral Aberration Comes to French 270\u003cbr\u003e Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State 287\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 315\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes 319\u003cbr\u003e Index 367","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406054990167,"sku":"9780822344223","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344223.jpg?v=1730494378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/punishing-the-poor-9780822344223","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}