RT Book
T1 Redistributing the poor: jails, hospitals, and the crisis of law and fiscal austerity
A1 Lara-Millán, Armando
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738973433
AB "This book argues that we have drastically misunderstood the changes taking place in our nation's largest jails and public hospitals. And more generally, the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. It is widely believed that because we as a society have divested in public health the sick and poor now find themselves subject to powerful criminal justice institutions. Rather than focus on the underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, this book argues that the fundamental problem of the state is a persistent crisis between budgetary catastrophe and expansive new legal rules. Redistributing the Poor pushes us to think about the circulation of people for the purposes of generating absent revenue, absolving new legal demands, and projecting illusions that crisis have been successfully resolved. This book takes us into the heart of the state: the day-to-day operations of the largest hospital and jail system in the world. It is only by centring the states use of redistribution that we can understand how certain forms of social suffering-the premature death of mainly poor, people of color-are not a result of the state's failure to act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful policy."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9469
SN 9780197507896
SN 9780197507902
K1 1978-2015
K1 Gesundheitskosten
K1 Gesundheitsfinanzierung
K1 Gesundheitsversorgung
K1 Krankenhausfinanzierung
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Haushaltskonsolidierung
K1 Armut
K1 Usa
K1 Jails : United States : Administration
K1 Prisoners : United States : Social conditions
K1 Public hospitals : United States : Finance
K1 Poor : United States : Social conditions : 21st century
K1 Social Control : United States
K1 Fiscal policy : United States
K1 USA : Gesundheitswesen : Gefängnis