Prisons of poverty
By: Loïc Wacquant.
Edition: Expanded ed.
Series: Contradictions -- 23
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780816639007; 9780816639014
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe; Crime -- Economic aspects -- United States; Crime -- Economic aspects -- Europe
Work titles: Prisons de la misère.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How America exports its penal policy; title: From social state to penal state : American realities, European possibilities; title: The great penal leap backward : incarceration in America from Nixon to Clinton.