Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity by Lara-Millán, Armando
Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity by Lara-Millán, Armando

Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea...
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Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity by Lara-Millán, Armando

Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

$535.38
Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity by Lara-Millán, Armando

Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

$535.38
Author: Armando Lara-Millán
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind. It is widely believed that because we as a society have dis-invested from public health, the sick and poor now find themselves within the purview of criminal justice institutions. In Redistributing the Poor, ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Millán takes us into the day-to-day operations of running the largest hospital and jail system in the world and argues that such received wisdom is a drastic mischaracterization of the way that states govern urban poverty at the turn of the 21st century. Rather than focus on our underinvestment of health and overinvestment of criminal justice, his idea of redistributing the poor draws attention to how state agencies circulate people between different institutional spaces in such a way that generates revenue for some agencies, cuts costs for others, and projects illusions that services have been legally rendered.
By centering the state's use of redistribution, Lara-Millán shows how certain forms of social suffering-the premature death of mainly poor, people of color-are not a result of the state's failure to act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful policy.


Author: Armando Lara-Millán
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/09/2021
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780197507902


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About the Author

Armando Lara-Millán is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is an ethnographer and historical sociologist. He studies how powerful organizations generate truths and rationalize problems, shaping the life fortunes of large numbers of people. He has undertaken
studies in a wide range of contexts, including law, medicine, criminal justice, economic pricing, and urban poverty governance. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Criminology, and in the volume The Many Hands of the State. He is also the recipient of awards from the National
Science Foundation, Law and Society Association, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, the Ford Foundation, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Sociological Association.

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