{"product_id":"redistributing-the-poor-jails-hospitals-and-the-crisis-of-law-and-fiscal-austerity-9780197507902","title":"Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedistributing the Poor\u003c\/em\u003e, ethnographer and historical sociologist Armando Lara-Mill?n 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\u003cbr\u003eat 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\u003cbr\u003esome agencies, cuts costs for others, and projects illusions that services have been legally rendered. By centering the state's use of redistribution, Lara-Mill?n 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\u003cbr\u003eto act, but instead the necessary outcome of so-called successful policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArmando Lara-Millán\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eAmerican Sociological Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCriminology\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the volume \u003cem\u003eThe Many Hands of the State\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50379094720786,"sku":"9780197507902","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5c26fb2-aa8d-420b-974e-d01dcb9181b8.jpg?v=1728656078","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/redistributing-the-poor-jails-hospitals-and-the-crisis-of-law-and-fiscal-austerity-9780197507902","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}