As well as serving an economic function, Loïc Wacquant argues that the transformation from welfare to mass incarceration and prison/workfare is an exercise in statecraft; with the disappearance of the ...
Loic J.D. Wacquant sits in a coffee shop here on a rainy evening, talking sadly about an upcoming trip to Chicago. The normally irrepressible French sociologist, one of the pre-eminent social ...