{"product_id":"rethinking-the-penal-state-hardback-9781509573035","title":"Rethinking the Penal State (Hardback) 9781509573035","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRethinking the Penal State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLoïc Wacquant (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509573035, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e528 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 4.3 cm, 0.885 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRethinking the Penal State \u003c\/i\u003eis a breath of fresh air and sure to become a major reference point in the study of punishment. It demonstrates that punishment is central not only to statecraft, but to producing citizenship. It is must-read for students, scholars, and policymakers interested in why and how democratic societies remain on the cusp of justice rather than realizing it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Barker, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNordic Nationalism and Penal Order\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Wacquant paints on canvas that is as wide as the global history of penal forms and as precise and detailed as the best ethnographies. Easily one of the most important contributions to the theory of punishment and society in the twenty-first century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Simon, author of \u003ci\u003eMass Incarceration on Trial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loïc Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he captures the constitutive \u003ci\u003eduality of punishment\u003c\/i\u003e, at once material and symbolic, an instrument of class control and a means of communicating values, endlessly oscillating between rehabilitation and retribution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging from the birth of the workhouse prison in sixteenth-century Europe to the deployment of punishment in the colonies to the workaday world of prosecutors in a California criminal court, Wacquant reveals how the penal state curates crime, manages urban marginality, signals sovereignty, and manufactures legitimacy in the eyes of the population by restoring control over bodies out of order. But the penal Leviathan is a \u003ci\u003ebifurcated state \u003c\/i\u003ewhich captures nearly exclusively dispossessed and dishonored categories by targeting their neighborhoods: it is everywhere a class-splitting and a race-forging institution based on the stubborn differentiation of \"paper penality\" and \"street penality.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGetting inside the machinery of criminal justice shows that punishment must be placed at the epicenter of the political sociology of statecraft, group-making and place-making in the metropolis as well as brought to the forefront of civic debate to articulate a \u003ci\u003eradical penal minimalism\u003c\/i\u003e suited to reconciling punishment and democratic ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Genealogical Sketch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOverture: On Punishment, the State and Citizenship\u003cbr\u003eThe criminal as anti-citizen\u003cbr\u003eThe many faces and functions of penality\u003cbr\u003eA historicist-analytical approach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Penality as Core State Capacity and Negative Sociodicy\u003cbr\u003ePunishment and social structure revisited\u003cbr\u003ePunishment and the state: the puzzle of mutual ignorance\u003cbr\u003eDurkheim, Rusche and Foucault on penality: passion, labor, disciplines\u003cbr\u003eReformation versus retribution: meshing philosophies of punishment\u003cbr\u003eWeber, Mann and Scott on the state: force, penetration, legibility\u003cbr\u003eThe three states of Pierre Bourdieu\u003cbr\u003eBourdieu 1, penality in the bureaucratic field\u003cbr\u003eBourdieu 2, Right hand and Left hand\u003cbr\u003eBourdieu 3, symbolic capital and negative sociodicy\u003cbr\u003eThree structural properties of the penal state\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Marginality, Ethnicity, Territory\u003cbr\u003eThe stunning return of the prison\u003cbr\u003ePenalization as neoliberal statecraft\u003cbr\u003eLessons from social history: marginality floods the city\u003cbr\u003eProvince of the precariat: class and ethnicity behind bars\u003cbr\u003eManaging marginality by targeting territory\u003cbr\u003eStructural osmosis\u003cbr\u003e'Paper penality' versus 'street penality'\u003cbr\u003eHistorical excursus: colonial penality and the urban badlands\u003cbr\u003eThe penal triad in the tropics\u003cbr\u003eBringing unruly bodies to heel, or indigénat at work\u003cbr\u003eSpecial punishment in neighborhoods of relegation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Penal Power Incarnate: A Day in the Life of a Prosecutor\u003cbr\u003eA structural ethnography of prosecutorial practice\u003cbr\u003eSituating the pretrial prosecutor\u003cbr\u003e'The Professor' comes to court\u003cbr\u003eAnatomy of the local judicial field\u003cbr\u003eA day in the life\u003cbr\u003e'Down in the trenches'\u003cbr\u003eThe splintering of punishment across class fractions\u003cbr\u003eA cautionary note on race and prosecution\u003cbr\u003eJudicial tagging and relational contracting\u003cbr\u003eThe human spear of the state\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoda: The Parable of Marx's Hangman and the Aporias of Abolitionism\u003cbr\u003eUrban marginality, penal policy and social rights\u003cbr\u003eAbolitionism as penal millenarism\u003cbr\u003eThe ten tenets of radical penal minimalism\u003cbr\u003ePenal transformation and the 'ethic of responsibility'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441816760600,"sku":"9781509573035","price":57.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509573035.jpg?v=1785027128","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rethinking-the-penal-state-hardback-9781509573035","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}