Prisons of Poverty

by Wacquant, Loic

• ISBN13: 9780816639014
• ISBN10: 0816639019
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-31
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

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.

Author Biography

Loïc Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Return of the Prison	p. 1
How America Exports Its Penal Common Sense	p. 7
Manhattan, Crucible of the New Penal Reason	p. 10
The Globalization of "Zero Tolerance"	p. 19
London, Trading Post and Acclimation Chamber	p. 27
Importers and Collaborators	p. 39
The Academic Pidgin of Neoliberal Penality	p. 47
From Social State to Penal State: American Realities, European Possibilities	p. 55
Penal Policy as Social Policy: Imprisoning America's Poor	p. 58
Precarious Workers, Foreigners, Addicts: The Preferred "Clients" of European Prisons	p. 87
Discipline and Punish at the Fin de Sieècle: Toward Social Panopticism	p. 103
After Monetary Europe, Police and Penitentiary Europe?	p. 121
The Great Penal Leap Backward: Incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton	p. 133
The Great American Carceral Boom	p. 135
A Correctional Marshall Plan	p. 139
The Crime-Incarceration Disconnect	p. 144
The Demise of Rehabilitation and the Politicization of Crime	p. 150
The Color of Punitiveness	p. 155
Afterword: A Civic Sociology of Neoliberal Penality	p. 161
Notes	p. 177
Index	p. 209
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