Getting tough welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America / Julilly Kohler-Hausmann.

Author/creator Kohler-Hausmann, Julilly
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects

SeriesPolitics and society in modern America
Politics and society in modern America. ^A1344627
Contents 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".
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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LCCN 2017931926
ISBN9780691174525 (hardcover)
ISBN0691174520 (hardcover)

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