Getting Tough

Autori

• Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

Parametri

• 305 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Libri di testo
• Libri di testo universitari
• Scienze politiche & Politica
• Scienze sociali
• Storia

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"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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017

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