Bøker av Loïc Wacquant

A sociologist explains how over the past two decades neoliberal societies have sought to control the poor through a combination of penal sanction and welfare supervision.

Exploring the rise of prison populations in the US, Europe and Latin America, this study begins with an account of being inside the Central Jail in Los Angeles. It goes on to point out the connections between neoliberalism as a political doctrine, and incarceration as a social policy.