Loïc Wacquant

Punitive Paternalism: The Rise of the Penal State and the New Government of Poverty

Last Updated: Saturday, January 20, 2007

• "Les rebuts de la société de marché: toxicomanes, psychopathes et sans-abri dans les prisons de l'Amérique." Amnis 3 (Fall 2003): 229-244.
  • Abridged version published as "Les scories de l'Amérique: toxicomanes, malades mentaux et sans-abris remplissent les prisons," Le Passant ordinaire, 47 (October-November 2003), pp. 32-38.
  • Reprinted in EcoRev, Special issue "Enfermement de la misère, misère de l'enfermement," Fall 2003.
  • Spanish translation: "La escoria de la sociedad de mercado," Renglones, 58-59, November 2004, pp. 20-30.
  • Spanish version also forthcoming in Claves (Madrid), 32, December 2004.
• "Towards a Dictatorship over the Poor? Notes on the Penalization of Poverty in Brazil." Punishment & Society 5-2 (April 2003): 197-205.
• "Washington, capital-caricatura del Estado penal americano." Panoptico (Barcelona) new series, 5-1 (Spring 2003): 93-96.
  • French original: "Washington, capitale-caricature de l'Etat pénal," Les Temps Maudits, 20, October-December 2004, pp. 14-19.
• "The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration." Ethnography 3-4 (December 2002), Special issue on "In and Out of the Belly of the Beast: Dissecting the Prison": 371-397.
  • Portuguese translation: forthcoming in Discursos Sediciosos. Crime, direito e sociedade (Rio de Janeiro), 13, Fall 2003.
• "Four Strategies to Cut Carceral Costs: On Managing Mass Imprisonment in the United States."Studies in Political Economy 18 (Spring 2002): 19-30.
  • Spanish translation: "Cuatro estratégias para limitar los gatos penitentiaros en la gestión del encarcelamiento masivo en los Estados Unidos', postface to Daniel Burton-Rose et al., El encarcelamiento de América. Una visión desde el interior de la industria penitenciaria de EE.UU., Madrid, Virus Editora, 2002.
  • Portuguese translation: "As estratégias para cortar custos do encarceramento em massa nos Estados Unidos," Novos Estudos, 64, November 2002, pp. 53-60.
  • Spanish: "Cuatro estratégias para limitar los gatos penitentiaros en la gestión del encarcelamiento masivo en los Estados Unidos," Postface to Daniel Burton-Rose et al., El encarcelamiento de América. Una visión desde el interior de la industria penitenciaria de EE.UU., Madrid, Virus Editora, 2002, pp. 347-362.
  • Also published as "Cuatro estrategias para limitar los gastos penitenciarios," Potlach. Cuaderno de antropología y semiótica (Buenos Aires), 2-2, Summer 2005, pp. 169-178.
  • German: "Vier Strategien zur Eindämmung der Gefängniskosten: Über die Probleme der Massenhaft in den Vereinigten Staaten," Telepolis, Summer 2006 (on-line magazine, Hanover, http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23149/1.html).
• "The Penalization of Poverty and the Rise of Neoliberalism." European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, special issue on Criminal Justice and Social Policy, 9-4 (Winter 2001): 401-412.
  • Spanish translation: "La penalización de la pobreza y el surgimento de neo-liberalismo, Capitulo criminologico (Caracas), 31-1, January-March 2003, pp. 9-22; reprinted as "Penalización de la miseria y proyecto politico neoliberal," Special rubric on "Prisiones de la miseria: estato penal y seguridad ciudadana," Archipiélago: Cuadernos de Crítica de la cultura, 55, Spring 2003, pp. 61-74.
  • Norwegian translation: "Fattigdomens bestraffning och nyliberalismens upplgäng," Fronesis (Oslo, special issue on "Law and Security in the New Capitalism"), 14-15, Fall 2003, pp. 102-112.
  • Portuguese translation: "A penalização da miséria e o avanço do neoliberalismo," in Marco Santana and José Ricardo Ramalho (eds.), Além da Fábrica: Trabalhadores, Sindicatos e a Nova Questão Social, Rio de Janeiro, Boitempo Editorial, 2003, pp.72-88.
  • Slovenian translation: "Penalizacija revscine in vzpon neoliberalizma," Druzboslovne Razprave (Ljubljana), 43, Fall 2003, pp. 65-75.
  • reprinted as "La penalización de la miseria. De la importación de políticas de seguridad," in Rosario del Caz, Mario Rodríguez and Manuel Saravia (eds.), El Derecho a la seguridad. Informe de Valladolid 5, Vallaloid, Universidad de Valladolid, 2004, pp. 15-22.
• "Armut als Delikt." Mittelweg 36-6 (December 2001, Hamburg): 65-74.
  • Reprinted as "Armut als Delikt: Ein Gespräch mit dem Soziologen Loïc Wacquant," in Elisabeth Blum and Peter Neitzke (eds.), Boulevard Ecke Dschungel: StadtProtokolle, Hamburg, Nautilus, 2002, pp. 152-163.
  • Reprinted in Mittelweg 36 (Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung), Special issue on "Die Kontroverse über den Exclusions-Begriff," September 2004.
• "Castigar los pobres" and  "Hacia una doble dictadura?", Garantías (La Plata, Argentina), December 2001: in press.
• “Moralisme et panoptisme punitif: la chasse aux délinquants sexuels aux Etats-Unis.” Sociologie et sociétés 33-1 (Spring 2001): 139-157.
  • Reprinted in abridged version as: "Traque des ex-délinquants sexuels en Amérique," in André Ciavaldini, Rolland Coutanceau, Francis Martens and Loïc Wacquant, Le Délinquant sexuel. Enjeux cliniques et sociétaux , Brussels, Temps d'arrêt, 2004, pp. 59-68.
• "The Advent of the Penal State is not a Destiny," Social Justice, 28-3, Fall 2001, pp. 81-87.
  • Shortened version originally in French as:  "L'avènement de l'Etat pénal n'est pas une fatalité." Dedans-Dehors (International Observatory of Prisons) 17 (January-February): 16-17.
  • Extended version reprinted in Le Passant ordinaire, 28, printemps 2000, pp. 20-21.
  • Reprinted in Michel Van Cromphaut (ed.), Quel Etat-nation à l'ère de la mondialisation, Paris, Editions l'Harmattan, 2002.
  • Spanish translation: "El advenimiento del Estado penal no es una fatalidad," postface to Las Cárceles de la miseria, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Manantial, 2000, pp. 165-171; also as "Epilogo," in Las Cárceles de la miseria, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2001, pp. 157-164.
  • Swedish: "Införandet av straffrättsstaten är inte oundvikligt," postface to Fattigdomens fängelser, Stockholm, Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2004, pp. 133-144.
• "Une voie européenne vers l'Etat pénal? Sur l'importation de l'idéologie et des politiques sécuritaires américaines." Pp. 145-160 in La Machine à punir. Pratique et discours sécuritaires. Edited by Gilles Sainati and Laurent Bonelli. Paris: Dagorno, 2001, pp. 145-160.
  • Spanish translation: "La penalización de la miseria: de la importación de políticas de seguridad," Renglones (Guadalajará), 51, May-August 2002, pp. 6-12.
• "Deadly Symbiosis: When Ghetto and Prison Meet and Mesh." Punishment and Society, 3-1 (January 2001): 95-134.
  • Reprinted in David Garland (ed.), Mass Imprisonment: Social Causes and Consequences, London, Sage, 2001, pp. 82-120.
  • Reprinted (revised and abridged) as "Deadly Symbiosis: Rethinking Race and Imprisonment in 21st-Century America," The Boston Review, "New Democracry Forum" on Crime and Punishment, 27-2, April-May 2002, pp. 23-31.
  • Reprinted (revised and abridged) in Austin Sarat (ed.), The Organization of Law: Introductory Readings, Boston, Roxbury Publishing, 2004, pp. 501-510.
  • French translation (revised): "Symbiose fatale: quand ghetto et prison se ressemblent et s'assemblent", Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 139, September 2001, pp. 31-52.
  • German: "Tödliche Symbiose. Wenn Ghetto und Gefängnis sich verbinden," in Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Jens Kastner, and Claudia Rademacher (eds.), Theorie als Kampf? Zur politischen Soziologie Pierre Bourdieu's, Opladen, Leske & Budrich, 2002, pp. 265-313.
  • Spanish: forthcoming in Loïc Wacquant (ed.), Repensar los Estados-Unidos. Por una sociologia del superpoder, Barcelona, Edición Anthropos, 2004; also in Argentine journal of legal studies.
  • Portuguese: "A cor da justiça: quando gueto e prisão se encontram e se malham," in Loïc Wacquant with Daniel Lins (eds.), Repensar os Estados Unidos, Campinas, Papirus, 2003, pp. 159-208.
• "How Penal Common Sense Comes to Europeans: Notes on the Transatlantic Diffusion of Neoliberal Doxa." European Societies 1-3 (Fall 1999): 319-352.
  • Abridged version reprinted as "Penal Truth Comes to Europe: Think Tanks and the 'Washington Consensus' on Crime and Punishment," in George Gilligan and John Pratt (eds.), Crime, Truth and Justice: Official Inquiry, Discourse, Knowledge, London: Willan Publishing, 2004, pp. 161-180.
  • German translation: "Über den US-Export des neuen strafrechtlichen Commonsense nach Europa," in Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer (ed.), Soziale Ungleichheit, Kriminalität, und Kriminalisierung, Opladen, Leske und Budrich, 2000, pp. 85-118.
• "Suitable Enemies: Foreigners and Immigrants in Europe's Prisons". Punishment and Society 1-2 (Fall 1999): 215-223.
  • French version: "Des 'ennemis commodes': étrangers et immigrés dans les prisons d'Europe," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 129, September 1999, pp. 63-67.
  • German translation: "'Bekeme Feinde'," Neue Kriminalpolitik , 8-3, August 2000, pp. 3-7.
  • Portuguese translation: "Inimigos cômodos: estrangeiros e imigrantes nas prisões da Europa," Discursos sediciosos, 9-10, Spring 2000, pp. 121-128.
  • Spanish translation: " 'Enemigos convenientes': extranjeiros e inmigrantes en las cárceles de Europa," in Parias urbanos, Buenos Aires, Ediciones Manantial, 2001, pp. 199-204.
• "Crime et châtiment en Amérique de Nixon à Clinton." Archives de politique criminelle 20 (Spring 1998): 123-138.
  • Portuguese translation: "Crime e castigo nos Estados Unidos de Nixon a Clinton," Revista de Sociologia e Política (Curitiba), 13 , November 1999, pp.45-58.
  • Italian: "Delitto e castigo in America da Nixon a Clinton," Dei Delitti e delle Pene (Bologna), vol. 8, nos. 1-2-3, January-December 2001, pp. 31-50
• "De l'Etat social à l'Etat pénal", Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Table of Contents and English summaries of Articles.
• “Les pauvres en pâture: la nouvelle politique de la misère en Amérique.” Hérodote 85 (Spring 1997): 21-33.
  • Excerpts reprinted as: “Le complexe commercial carcéro-assistentiel,” Courrier de la planète, 41, July-August 1997, pp. 30-31.
  • Portuguese translation in Loïc Wacquant, Punir os pobres, Rio de Janeiro, Freitas Bastos Editora (Coleçâo Pensamento Criminológico), 2001, pp. 39-54.

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