Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Getting tough

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

980915169

Responsibility statement

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

Series statement

Politics and society in modern America

Sub title

welfare and imprisonment in 1970s America

Summary

"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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