BJS 2009 Lecture - Tuesday 6 October 2009, 6.30 p.m.
Bringing the Penal State Back In
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Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology,Department of Sociology, University of California and Centre de sociologie européen, Paris
Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law, and Legal Theory, Dept of Law, LSE
Fran Tonkiss, Editor, Dept. of Sociology, LSE
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This lecture draws on classical theory, social history, and a comparative anlaysis of the penalization of urban poverty in advanced societies at the century's turn to argue that we do need to bring the penal state back in to the centre of the sociology of social inequality, public policy and citizenship
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