Wacquant confronts orthodox as well as more critical, fashionable accounts of modern penality and presents a welcome challenge to the antediluvian idea that political economy, social divisions and state power are no longer. LoГЇc Wacquant skillfully weds materialist and symbolic approaches in the best tradition of Marx and radical criminology, on the one hand, and Durkheim and Bourdieu, on the other. Ironically, given its subject matter, literally and figuratively, the book takes no prisoners. The consolidation of a neo-liberal social and political order in the United States and Western Europe since the 1970s, supported by a neo-liberal state-unrelenting, ruthless and parasitic-is LoГЇc Wacquant's central focus.

(Raymond Williams, cited in Gunvald Nilsen 2009: 115)Although written over 30 years ago, this prescient intervention from Raymond Williams encapsulates the central thesis of Punishing the Poor. Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Drawing on a wealth of original field, survey and historical data, LoГЇc Wacquant shows that the involution of Americas urban core after. This provocative book is the counter-manifesto to neoliberal penality, a must-read for all students of criminal justice and citizenship.'-Bernard E. With Punishing the Poor, LoГЇc Wacquant makes an important and timely contribution in bringing attention to prisons as a core polit- ical institution of neoliberal. Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Loc J.D.Wacquant, sociologue et membre de la Society of Fellows l'Universit d'Harvard (USA), mne depuis plusieurs annes des recherches sur le ghetto noir amricain aprs avoir pass deux ans en Nouvelle-Caldonie o il a ralis de nombreux travaux sur les ingalits ethniques et la crise du systme colonial.Parmi ses. Extract Joe Sim Writes: Punishment in a Hard Land 1ДЇrom castles and palaces and churches to prisons and workhouses and schools from weapons of war to a controlled press, any ruling class, in variable ways though always materially, produces a social and political order. Loic Wacquant skillfully weds materialist and symbolic approaches in the best tradition of Marx and radical criminology, on the one hand, and Durkheim and Bourdieu, on the other. Loc Wacquant For a sociology of flesh and blood Translation by Michal Busset and Michal Cordey, reviewed by the author In Terrains & travaux Volume 26.

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