Getting tough : welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America
"In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to s...
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and society in modern America.
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| Summary: | "In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare. These campaigns helped expand the nation's penal system, discredit welfare programs, and cast blame for the era's social upheaval on racialized deviants that the state was not accountable to serve or represent. Getting Tough sheds light on how this unprecedented growth of the penal system and the evisceration of the nation's welfare programs developed hand in hand. Julily Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by struggles over how to interpret and respond to the inequality and disorder that crested during this period."--Page [4] of cover. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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| ISBN: | 9780691174525 0691174520 |
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HV9950 .K64 2017 |
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| HV9950 .K64 2017 | Available Place a Hold |