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“The law-and-order policy of the United States… focused only on the visible delinquency of the lower class… as opposed to the veiled criminality of the well-to-do… [targeting] retail sales and consumption of drugs in segregated Black and Latino neighborhoods."

Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

Wacquant, Loic J. D.

ISBN-13: 9780822344223 / ISBN-10: 082234422X

Duke University Press, 2009

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