Abstract

Introduction: reading Loic Wacquant - opening questions and overview ~ Peter Squires and John Lea Section 1: Theory and politics: Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security ~ John Lea and Simon Hallsworth The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city ~ Kevin Stenson The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state? ~ John Pitts Section 2: Welfare, agency and resistance: Loic Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process ~ John J. Rodger Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism ~ Lynn Hancock and Gerry Mooney Loic Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance ~ Lynda Measor Women, welfare and the carceral state ~ Denise Martin and Paula Wilcox Section 3: Urbanisation, criminality and penality: Illicit economies and the carceral social zone ~ Vincenzo Ruggiero The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation ~ Markus-Michael Muller Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences ~ Peter Squires Response: The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators ~ Loic Wacquant.

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