RT Book
T1 The upper limit: how low-wage work defines punishment and welfare
A1 Bonnet, François 1979-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1664143815
AB The upper limit -- The great adjustment : punishment and welfare in postwar America -- The crime drop and the East New York renaissance -- The necessity of harsh policing -- Prisoner reentry in public housing -- Nonprofits : welfare on the cheap -- Reengineering less eligibility : the New York homeless shelter industry.
AB "Since 1993, crime has fallen in the United States to historical lows, providing extraordinary legitimacy to the country's peculiar mix of welfare and punishment, with ever stingier social programs for the poor and the highest rates of incarceration in the world. The Upper Limit sets out to explain why. It provides a comprehensive theory of the evolution of social and penal policy which can be summarized thus: welfare has to be less attractive than low-wage work, and punishment has to make criminal life less attractive than welfare. Low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy. Declining living standards for the poor since the 1970s have lowered the upper limit in the United States. The Upper Limit explores how these transformations and the ensuing crime drop have affected the lives of the poor in a formerly high-crime Brooklyn neighborhood, East New York. It explains the dark logic behind police brutality, the trials of prisoner reentry and the inhumanity of New York's homeless shelters"--Provided by publisher
CN HV98.N7
SN 9780520305229
SN 9780520305212
K1 Public Welfare : New York (State) : History
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : New York (State) : History
K1 Minimum Wage : Social aspects : New York (State)
K1 East New York (New York, N.Y.)
K1 USA : Niedriglohn : Kriminalität : Kriminalpolitik : Sozialhilfe : Geschichte 1993-2019
K1 USA : Kriminalität : Entwicklung : Strafrechtspflege : Sozialhilfe : Geschichte 1993-2019