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вЂњAn intellectual tour de force of how the American stateвЂ™s interaction with citizens of colour is non-random and, for many African Americans, harmful.вЂќ - Desmond King, British Journal of Criminology WacquantвЂ™s framework in Punishing the Poor can provide important insights for academic -and activist - interventions.вЂќ - Tia Dafnos, Canadian Journal of Sociology Punishing the Poor is an important addition and counter-balance to existing literature addressing neoliberal penal and social policy. вЂњn important and timely contribution in bringing attention to prisons as a core political institution of neoliberal states. вЂњn engaging and essential book for readers interested in the intertwined evolution of вЂwelfareвЂ™ and вЂprisonвЂ™ during the period of neoliberalism.вЂќ - Paul Michael Garrett, Critical Social Policy Whether one accepts his analysis of the origins and functions of hyperincarceration or not, of its reality and its pernicious effects there can be little doubt.вЂќ - Andrew Scull, European Journal of Sociology вЂњAВ powerful polemic, which forces us to confront what it rapidly becoming a major contemporary crisis. вЂњ Punishing the Poor offers a compelling analysis both of the state of law and order and of the law and order state in a hard land at the end of the twentieth century.вЂќ - Joe Sims, British Journal of Criminology

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It should be read carefully and intentionally in graduate courses, in advanced undergraduate seminars, and among scholarly and professional circles alike.вЂќ - Rueben Miller, Journal of Poverty вЂњ Punishing the Poor makes a novel and important contribution to welfare state scholarship, along with a host of disciplines and professions concerned with the plight of the urban poor. And it reveals that the capitalist revolution from above called neoliberalism entails not the advent of вЂњsmall governmentвЂќ but the building of an overgrown and intrusive penal state deeply injurious to the ideals of democratic citizenship. By bringing developments in welfare and criminal justice into a single analytic framework attentive to both the instrumental and communicative moments of public policy, Punishing the Poor shows that the prison is not a mere technical implement for law enforcement but a core political institution. It also erects a garish theater of civic morality on whose stage political elites can orchestrate the public vituperation of deviant figures-the teenage вЂњwelfare mother,вЂќ the ghetto вЂњstreet thug,вЂќ and the roaming вЂњsex predatorвЂќ-and close the legitimacy deficit they suffer when they discard the established government mission of social and economic protection. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial proletariat. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive вЂњworkfareвЂќ and expansive вЂњprisonfareвЂќ under a philosophy of moral behaviorism.

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy.

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