Contents // Tables and Figures ix // Prologue: America as Living Laboratory of // the Neoliberal Future xi // 1. Social Insecurity and the Punitive Upsurge 1 // Part I: Poverty of the Social State // 2. The Criminalization of Poverty in the Post-Civil Rights Era 41 // 3. Welfare "Reform" as Poor Discipline and Statecraft 76 // Part II: Grandeur of the Penal State // 4. The Great Confinement of the Fin de Siecle 113 // 5. The Coming of Carceral "Big Government" 151 // Part III: Privileged Targets // 6. The Prison as Surrogate Ghetto: Encaging Black // Subproletarians 195 // 7. Moralism and Punitive Panopticism: Hunting Down // Sex Offenders 209 // Part IV: European Declinations // 8. The Scholarly Myths of the New Law-and-Order Reason 243 // 9. Carceral Aberration Comes to France 270 // Theoretical Coda: A Sketch of the Neoliberal State 287 // Acknowledgments 315 // Notes 319 // Index 367