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Four Strategies to Curb Carceral Costs: On Managing Mass Imprisonment in the United States

Studies in Political Economy

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Title Four Strategies to Curb Carceral Costs: On Managing Mass Imprisonment in the United States
 
Creator Wacquant, LoŃ—c
 
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Description After forsaking the Fordist-Keynesian social compact in the mid-1970s and the crumbling of the black ghetto as an instrument of caste control, the United States launched into a unique sociohistorical experiment: the incipient replacement of the welfare regulation of poverty and of the urban disorders spawned by mounting social insecurity and racial strife by its penal management via the police, courts, and correctional system.
 
Publisher Studies in Political Economy
 
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Date 2010-05-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/6683
 
Source Studies in Political Economy; Vol 69 (2002): Issue #69
1918-7033
0707-8552
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/6683/3683
 
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