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- English
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About this book
This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Loïc Wacquant's work in English. Wacquant's challenging critique of the neo-liberal government of crime and the punitive culture to which this is related has shaken criminology to its foundations. In a bold political analysis he describes how the US-led revolution in law and order has dismantled the welfare state, replacing it with a disciplinary and penal state. Wacquant's analysis also details the spread of neo-liberal crime control measures and the underpinning 'pornographic' discourses of crime across the developed world, although critics have questioned the extent to which this model of criminal justice really is gaining the worldwide dominance alleged. Written by criminologists and policy analysts, Criminalisation and advanced marginality offers a constructive but critical application of Wacquant's ideas. The contributors welcome the opportunity presented by Wacquant's work to re-engage with a radical politics of law and order, criminalisation and marginality, whilst raising issues of gender, resistance, conflict and history which, they argue, help to enrich and further develop Wacquant's analyses. The book concludes with a chapter from Professor Wacquant himself responding to the commentaries upon his work. It fills an important gap in the existing literature and will be exciting reading for academics and students of criminology, social policy and the social sciences more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Criminalisation and advanced marginality
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- 1. Introduction: reading Loïc Wacquant – opening questions and overview
- Section 1: Theory and politics
- 2. Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security
- 3. The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city
- 4. The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state?
- Section 2: Welfare, agency and resistance
- 5. Loïc Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process
- 6. Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism
- 7. Loïc Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance
- 8. Women, welfare and the carceral state
- Section 3: Urbanisation, criminality and penality
- 9. Illicit economies and the carceral social zone
- 10. The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation
- 11. Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences
- Response
- 12. The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators1
- Index