The Global Firestorm of Law and Order (<Special Issue>Poverty, Crime, and Delinquency)

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  • Wacquant Loic
    University of California, Berkeley, Centre de sociologie europeenne, Paris

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  • 世界に拡大する法秩序の嵐 (課題研究 貧困と犯罪・非行)
  • 世界に拡大する法秩序の嵐--ネオリベラリズムと刑罰にかんして
  • セカイ ニ カクダイ スル ホウ チツジョ ノ アラシ ネオリベラリズム ト ケイバツ ニ カンシテ
  • ネオリベラリズムと刑罰にかんして
  • On Neoliberalism and Punishment

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This article reflects on the international reception of my book Prisons of Poverty as revelator of penal developments in advanced societies over the past decades. I show that the global firestorm of "law and order" inspired by the United States that the book detected in 1999 has continued to rage far and wide. Indeed, it had extended from First- to Second World countries and has altered punishment politics and policies around the globe in ways that no one foresaw and would have thought possible some fifteen years ago. I extended the analysis of the role of think tanks (especially the Manhattan Institute) in the diffusion of US-style crime-fighting notions and nostrums in Latin America as one element of the international circulation of pro-market policy packages fostering the punitive management of poverty. I elaborate and revise the original model of the link between neoliberalism and punitive penalty, leading to the analysis of state-crafting in the age of social insecurity developed in my book Punishing the Poor.

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