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Loic Wacquant is a French sociologist whose work examines urban marginality, racial domination, social policy, and punishment in the United States and Europe. His research combines ethnography with historical and institutional analysis, including fieldwork in a boxing gym on Chicago's South Side. Bo...
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Urban poverty, incarceration, and advanced marginality work are highly cited; ethnographic claims sometimes contested.
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David Garland is a British sociologist and scholar of law and criminology whose work examines punishment, social control, and the institutions governing crime. In Punishment and Modern Society, he analyzed penal practices through major traditions of social theory. His 2001 book The Culture of Contro...
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Culture of Control is a landmark punishment text; high influence in criminology and social theory.
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