Prisons of Poverty

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Author: Loc WacquantISBN: 9780816639014Publisher: University of Minnesota PressYear first published: 04 Jan 2010Pages: 232 Format: Paperback / softbackIn the early 1990s, Mayor Rud olph Giuliani launched a zero-tolerance campaign aimed at street disorders and petty offenders, incarnated in the infamous "squeegee man." New York City soon became a planetary showcase for an aggressive approach to law enforcement that, despite its extravagant costs and the absence of connection to the crime drop, came to be admired and imitated by other cities in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America. Show more