Punishing the Poor
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Punishing the Poor is a sociological study by Loïc Wacquant that critiques the rise of punitive welfare and mass incarceration policies as tools for managing poverty and social marginality in neoliberal societies.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Punishing the Poor canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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sociological study ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
criminology
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political science ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| argues |
mass incarceration targets marginalized urban populations
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neoliberalism combines economic deregulation with punitive regulation of the poor ⓘ punitive policies are used to manage the poor ⓘ the penal system functions as a tool of social control ⓘ welfare retrenchment is linked to penal expansion ⓘ |
| author | Loïc Wacquant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| critiques |
broken windows policing
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mass imprisonment ⓘ neoliberal social policy ⓘ workfare reforms ⓘ zero-tolerance policing ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
United States penal policy
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law-and-order politics ⓘ prison expansion ⓘ welfare state transformation ⓘ workfare policies ⓘ |
| genre |
critical criminology
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political sociology ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
critical criminology scholarship
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studies of mass incarceration ⓘ urban sociology ⓘ welfare state research ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
academics
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graduate students ⓘ policy researchers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
mass incarceration
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neoliberalism ⓘ poverty management ⓘ punitive welfare policies ⓘ social marginality ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
advanced marginality
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carceral state ⓘ neoliberal penality ⓘ penal state ⓘ welfare state retrenchment ⓘ workfare ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Loïc Wacquant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
Bourdieuian sociology
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neoliberalism critique ⓘ |
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