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Author:   Peter Squires ,  John Lea
Publisher:   Policy Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447300021

ISBN 10:   1447300025
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   09 May 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: reading Loic Wacquant - opening questions and overview ~ Peter Squires and John Lea; Section 1: Theory and politics: Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security ~ John Lea and Simon Hallsworth; The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city ~ Kevin Stenson; The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state? ~ John Pitts; Section 2: Welfare, agency and resistance: Loic Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process ~ John J. Rodger; Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism ~ Lynn Hancock and Gerry Mooney; Loic Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance ~ Lynda Measor; Women, welfare and the carceral state ~ Denise Martin and Paula Wilcox; Section 3: Urbanisation, criminality and penality: Illicit economies and the carceral social zone ~ Vincenzo Ruggiero; The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation ~ Markus-Michael M?ller; Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences ~ Peter Squires; Response: The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators ~ Loic Wacquant.

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This volume is to be welcomed as in many ways a refreshing reminder and change of voice - Studies in Social Justice

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Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK.John Lea is Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Brighton, UK.

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