3. Welfare “Reform” as Poor Discipline and Statecraft

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Prologue: America as Living Laboratory of the Neoliberal Future xi
5. 1. Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge 1
6. Part I: Poverty of the Social State
7. 2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post–Civil Rights Era 41
8. 3. Welfare “Reform” as Poor Discipline and Statecraft 76
9. Part II: Grandeur of the Penal State
10. 4. The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siècle 113
11. 5. The Coming of Carceral “Big Government” 151
12. Part III: Privileged Targets
13. 6. The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging Black Subproletarians 195
14. 7. Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down Sex Offenders 209
15. Part IV: European Declinations
16. 8. The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason 243
17. 9. Carceral Aberration Comes to France 270
18. Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State 287
19. Acknowledgments 315
20. Notes 319
21. Index 367