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Loïc Wacquant

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Description:In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a "zero-tolerance" campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated by 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, Loic 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 export and import 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 local 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 first" of the penal state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Prisons of Poverty (Volume 23) (Contradictions of Modernity). To get started finding Prisons of Poverty (Volume 23) (Contradictions of Modernity), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the early 1990s, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani launched a "zero-tolerance" campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated by 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, Loic 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 export and import 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 local 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 first" of the penal state.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Prisons of Poverty (Volume 23) (Contradictions of Modernity). To get started finding Prisons of Poverty (Volume 23) (Contradictions of Modernity), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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