Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant

Overview

Loïc Wacquant’s writings have shaken the world of criminology—and social science more generally—to their foundations with a wide-ranging critique of neoliberal governance’s approach to crime and poverty and its reorientation of state power from welfare to discipline. The first book to fully engage with Wacquant’s work, Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality presents critical but constructive essays on his challenging ideas, focusing on the governance of crime and disorder, welfare, and “diswelfare.” It ...
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Overview

Loïc Wacquant’s writings have shaken the world of criminology—and social science more generally—to their foundations with a wide-ranging critique of neoliberal governance’s approach to crime and poverty and its reorientation of state power from welfare to discipline. The first book to fully engage with Wacquant’s work, Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality presents critical but constructive essays on his challenging ideas, focusing on the governance of crime and disorder, welfare, and “diswelfare.” It concludes with Wacquant’s responses to the authors’ comments and critiques.
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Editorial Reviews

Professor Barry Goldson
“Loïc Wacquant is, without question, one of the most significant critical social scientists of the present period. By exposing his work to rigorous analysis and providing Wacquant with a right of reply, Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality comprises a riveting read.”
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  • ISBN-13: 9781447300007
  • Publisher: Policy Press at the Univ of Bristol
  • Publication date: 6/15/2013
  • Pages: 304

Meet the Author

Peter Squires is a professor of criminology and public policy in the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Brighton. John Lea is a visiting professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Brighton.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors

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

Index

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