{"product_id":"rethinking-the-penal-state-by-loic-wacquant-9781509573042","title":"Rethinking the Penal State","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history, and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he captures the constitutive \u003ci\u003eduality of punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, which is at once material and symbolic, an instrument of class control and a means of communicating values, endlessly oscillating between rehabilitation and retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanging from the birth of the workhouse prison in sixteenth-century Europe to the deployment of punishment in the colonies to the workaday world of prosecutors in a California criminal court, Wacquant reveals how the penal state curates crime, manages urban marginality, signals sovereignty, and manufactures legitimacy in the eyes of the population by restoring control over bodies out of order. But the penal Leviathan is a \u003ci\u003ebifurcated state\u003c\/i\u003e that captures nearly exclusively dispossessed and dishonoured categories by targeting their neighbourhoods: it is everywhere a class-splitting and race-forging institution based on the stubborn differentiation of \"paper penality\" and \"street penality.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGetting inside the machinery of criminal justice shows that punishment must be placed at the epicentre of the political sociology of statecraft, group-making, and place-making in the metropolis, as well as brought to the forefront of civic debate to articulate a \u003ci\u003eradical penal minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e suited to reconciling punishment and democratic ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650577383660,"sku":"9781509573042","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509573042-rethinking-the-penal-state.jpg?v=1779327857","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/rethinking-the-penal-state-by-loic-wacquant-9781509573042","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}