Getting Tough : : Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970S America

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Call Number: 973.924 Ko
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Addicts into citizens: the tribulations of New York's treatment regime -- The public versus the pushers: enacting New York's Rockefeller drug laws -- The welfare mess: reimagining the social contract -- Welfare is a cancer: economic citizenship in the age of Reagan -- Unmaking the rehabilitative ideal -- Going berserk for punishment: a prelude to mass incarceration -- Forging an "underclass".
"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.

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