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

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Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

Redistributing the Poor

Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity

Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press Inc
06 May 2021

HIV & AIDS: social aspects; Social discrimination; Crime & criminology; Prisons; Political science & theory

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-Millan 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-Millan 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.

By: Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9780197507902
ISBN 10: 0197507905
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 06 May 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Armando Lara-Millan 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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There simply is not another book quite like this, making Lara-Milla'&n's work groundbreaking. * A.R.S. Lorenz, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8 *

Winner of Winner, 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association.

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Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

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Armando Lara-Millan (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

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