Prisons of Poverty

Klappentext In this title, the author examines how penal policies emanating from the United States have spread thoughout the world. The author argues that the policies have their roots in a network of Reagan-era conservative think tanks, which used them as weapons in their crusade to dismantle the welfare state and, in effect, criminalise poverty. Zusammenfassung In this title, the author examines how penal policies emanating from the United States have spread thoughout the world. The author argues that the policies have their roots in a network of Reagan-era conservative think tanks, which used them as weapons in their crusade to dismantle the welfare state and, in effect, criminalise poverty.

Product details

• Authors: Loic Wacquant, WACQUANT LOIC
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2009
• EAN: 9780816639007
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-3900-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Contradictions; Contradictions of Modernity; Contradictions (Hardcover); Contradictions S.; Contradictions of Modernity
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology