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

by Loïc Wacquant, Peter Squires, John Lea

Book Overview

This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Lo c 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 bold political analysis he describes how the US-led revolution in law and order has dismantled the welfare state, replacing it with a disciplinary and penal state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447300009
• ISBN13: 9781447300007
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"