Prisons of Poverty: Volume 23 (Contradictions of Modernity)

by Loïc Wacquant (Author), Loïc Wacquant (Author)

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  2009

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  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.