Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique

Drugs addicts, the mentally ill, the homeless: the insufficiency and ineptness of social and medical services in the United States ensures that these three categories find themselves behind bars in ever larger numbers over time, as the prison is turned into a dumping ground for the human waste of a...

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Main Author: Loïc Wacquant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TELEMME - UMR 6570 2003-09-01
Series:Amnis
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/518
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title Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique
title_full Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique
title_fullStr Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique
title_full_unstemmed Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique
title_short Les rebuts de la société de marché : toxicomanes, psychopathes, sans-abri dans les prisons de l’Amérique
title_sort les rebuts de la societe de marche toxicomanes psychopathes sans abri dans les prisons de l amerique
topic United States
America
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prison
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