Criminalisation and advanced marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loïc Wacquant - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447300009 ISBN 13: 9781447300007

Publisher: Policy Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book represents the first full-length critical and interdisciplinary assessment of Loïc 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. Wacquant's analysis also details the spread of neo-liberal crime control measures and the underpinning 'pornographic' discourses of crime across the developed world, although critics have questioned the extent to which this model of criminal justice really is gaining the worldwide dominance alleged. Written by criminologists and policy analysts, Criminalisation and advanced marginality offers a constructive but critical application of Wacquant's ideas. The contributors welcome the opportunity presented by Wacquant's work to re-engage with a radical politics of law and order, criminalisation and marginality, whilst raising issues of gender, resistance, conflict and history which, they argue, help to enrich and further develop Wacquant's analyses. The book concludes with a chapter from Professor Wacquant himself responding to the commentaries upon his work. It fills an important gap in the existing literature and will be exciting reading for academics and students of criminology, social policy and the social sciences more broadly.

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About 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447300009
• ISBN 13: 9781447300007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Squires Peter