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Prisons of poverty / Loïc Wacquant.

By: Wacquant, Loïc J. DLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 23.Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009. Edition: Expanded edDescription: 217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780816639007; 0816639000; 9780816639014; 0816639019Uniform titles: Prisons de la misère. English Subject(s): Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States | Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe | Crime -- Economic aspects -- United States | Crime -- Economic aspects -- Europe | Crime -- Economic aspects | Criminal justice, Administration of | Europe | United StatesDDC classification: 365/.973 LOC classification: HV9950 | .W3213 2009

Contents:

How America exports its penal policy -- From social state to penal state : American realities, European possibilities -- The great penal leap backward : incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton.

Summary: "In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law enforcement that, despite its extravagant costs and the absence of connection to the crime drop, came to be admired and imitated by other cities in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.Summary: In Prisons of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant tracks the incubation and internationalization of the slogans, theories, and measures composing this new punitive "common sense," fashioned to curb mounting urban inequality and marginality in the metropolis. He finds that a network of Reagan-era conservative think tanks (led by the Manhattan Institute) forged them as weapons in their crusade to dismantle the welfare state and, in effect, to criminalize poverty. He traces their import and export through the agency of the media and the pro-market policy institutes that have mushroomed across the European Union, particularly in Tony Blair's Britain. And he shows how academics helped smuggle U.S. techniques of penalization into their countries by dressing them up in scholarly garb.Summary: Now available in English for the first time in an expanded edition, Prisons of Poverty reveals how the Washington consensus on economic deregulation and welfare retrenchment was extended to encompass punitive crime control because the invisible hand of the market necessitates and calls forth the iron fist of the penal state."--pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the French.

"In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law enforcement that, despite its extravagant costs and the absence of connection to the crime drop, came to be admired and imitated by other cities in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.

In Prisons of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant tracks the incubation and internationalization of the slogans, theories, and measures composing this new punitive "common sense," fashioned to curb mounting urban inequality and marginality in the metropolis. He finds that a network of Reagan-era conservative think tanks (led by the Manhattan Institute) forged them as weapons in their crusade to dismantle the welfare state and, in effect, to criminalize poverty. He traces their import and export through the agency of the media and the pro-market policy institutes that have mushroomed across the European Union, particularly in Tony Blair's Britain. And he shows how academics helped smuggle U.S. techniques of penalization into their countries by dressing them up in scholarly garb.

Now available in English for the first time in an expanded edition, Prisons of Poverty reveals how the Washington consensus on economic deregulation and welfare retrenchment was extended to encompass punitive crime control because the invisible hand of the market necessitates and calls forth the iron fist of the penal state."--pub. desc.