Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality : : Critically Exploring the Work of Loïc Wacquant / / ed. by Peter Squires, John Lea.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Hallsworth, Simon,; Hancock, Lynn,; Lea, John,; Martin, Denise,; Measor, Lynda,; Mooney, Gerry,; Müller, Markus-Michael,; Pitts, John,; Rodger, John J.,; Ruggiero, Vincenzo,; Squires, Peter,; Stenson, Kevin,; Wacquant, Loïc,; Wilcox, Paula,
• HerausgeberIn: Lea, John,; Squires, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: reading Loïc Wacquant – opening questions and overview
• Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security
• The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city
• The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state?
• Loïc Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process
• Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism
• Loïc Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance
• Women, welfare and the carceral state
• Illicit economies and the carceral social zone
• The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation
• Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences
• The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators
• Index
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors