Redistributing the Poor
«... there is much to like about the book as written. It is an intriguing read, theoretically ambitious, and seems likely to spur additional creative research that pushes and tests its claims.»
Nicole P. Marwell, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, andPractice, University of Chicago, C
Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the purview of criminal justice institutions. Les mer
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jail system in the world and argues that such received wisdom is a drastic mischaracterization of the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. Rather than focus on our underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, his idea of "redistributing the poor" draws attention
to how state agencies circulate people between different institutional spaces in such a way that generates revenue for some agencies, cuts costs for others, and projects illusions that services have been legally rendered. By centering the state's use of redistribution, Lara-Millan shows how certain forms of social suffering-the premature death of mainly poor, people of color-are not a result of the state's failure to act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful
policy.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780197507902
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 16 x 23 cm
- Priser
- Winner, 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association null
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«... there is much to like about the book as written. It is an intriguing read, theoretically ambitious, and seems likely to spur additional creative research that pushes and tests its claims.»
Nicole P. Marwell, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, andPractice, University of Chicago, C
«There simply is not another book quite like this, making Lara-Milla´&n's work groundbreaking.»
A.R.S. Lorenz, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8