Prisons of poverty

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INTRODUCTION: THE RETURN OF THE PRISON 1. HOW AMERICA EXPORTS ITS PENAL COMMON SENSE Manhattan, Crucible of the New Penal Reason The Globalization of “Zero Tolerance” London, Trading Post and Acclimation Chamber Importers and Collaborators The Academic Pidgin of Neoliberal Penality 2. FROM SOCIAL STATE TO PENAL STATE: AMERICAN REALITIES, EUROPEAN POSSIBILITIES Penal Policy as Social Policy: Imprisoning America’s Poor Precarious Workers, Foreigners, Addicts: The Preferred “Clients” of European Prisons Discipline and Punish at the Fin de Siècle: Toward Social Panopticism After Monetary Europe, Police and Penitentiary Europe? 3. THE GREAT PENAL LEAP BACKWARD: INCARCERATION IN AMERICA FROM NIXON TO CLINTON The Great American Carceral Boom A Correctional Marshall Plan The Crime–Incarceration Disconnect The Demise of Rehabilitation and the Politicization of Crime The Color of Punitiveness AFTERWORD: A CIVIC SOCIOLOGY OF NEOLIBERAL PENALITY