How Long to Read Punishing the Poor

How Long Does it Take to Read Punishing the Poor?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 1 minute to read Punishing the Poor by Loïc Wacquant

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral behaviorism. This paternalist program of penalization of poverty aims to curb the urban disorders wrought by economic deregulation and to impose precarious employment on the postindustrial...

How long is Punishing the Poor?

Punishing the Poor by Loïc Wacquant is 408 pages long, and a total of 105,264 words.

This makes it 138% the length of the average book. It also has 129% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Punishing the Poor Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 35 minutes to read Punishing the Poor aloud.

What Reading Level is Punishing the Poor?

Punishing the Poor is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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