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28%OFFJulilly Kohler-Hausmann - Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America - 9780691174525 - V9780691174525
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Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America

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Description for Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America Hardback. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 line illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programs 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. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann shows that these historical events were animated by ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691174525
SKU
V9780691174525
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About Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Julilly Kohler-Hausmann is assistant professor of history at Cornell University.

Reviews for Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
This extraordinary book analyzes changing state-level policies toward drugs, welfare, and incarceration in the 1970s in the US, revealing connections between welfare and imprisonment as institutions of social regulation. . . . Drawing on statements and letters from officials, activists, prisoners, welfare recipients, and concerned citizens, Kohler-Hausmann illuminates the often contradictory and always contingent dialogues through which 'tough' policies were ... Read more

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