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Redistributing the Poor - Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,609
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Redistributing the Poor - Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (Hardcover): Armando Lara-Millan

Redistributing the Poor - Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (Hardcover)

Armando Lara-Millan

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Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the purview of criminal justice institutions. In Redistributing the Poor, ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millan takes us into the day-to-day operations of running the largest hospital and jail system in the world and argues that such received wisdom is a drastic mischaracterization of the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. Rather than focus on our underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, his idea of "redistributing the poor" draws attention to how state agencies circulate people between different institutional spaces in such a way that generates revenue for some agencies, cuts costs for others, and projects illusions that services have been legally rendered. By centering the state's use of redistribution, Lara-Millan shows 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.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2021
Authors: Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology)
Dimensions: 241 x 161 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-750789-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness
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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons
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LSN: 0-19-750789-1
Barcode: 9780197507896

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