Getting Tough
Download or Read eBook Getting Tough PDF written by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Julilly Kohler-Hausmann |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2019-05-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780691191546 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0691191549 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Getting Tough by : Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
Book excerpt: "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
