00882nam a2200133 450000100060000010000410000610100080004720000630005533004530011846100970057160600490066870000210071785200100073818146 a20020205u y0pory50 ba aeng aThe penalisation of poverty and the rise of neo-liberalism aThis article explicates and extends the analyses put forth by the author in this book, Prisons of Poverty, which argues that the generalised increase of carceral populations in advanced societies is due to the growing use of the penal system as an instrument for managing social insecurity and containing the social disorders created at bottom of the class structure by neo-liberal policies of economie deregulation and social-welfare retrenchment. vV.9,n.4dDec. 2001pp.401-412tEuropean Journal on Criminal Policy and ResearchcNetherlands aPOBREZA POLÍTICA SOCIAL POLÍTICA PENAL aWACQUANTbLoïc jP.275