Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK.John Lea is Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Brighton, UK.

"Loïc Wacquant is, without question, one of the most significant critical social scientists of the present period. By exposing his work to rigorous analysis and providing Wacquant with a right of reply, Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality comprises a riveting read." Professor Barry Goldson, The University of Liverpool

• Introduction: reading Loïc Wacquant - opening questions and overview ~ Peter Squires and John Lea; Section 1: Theory and politics: Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security ~ John Lea and Simon Hallsworth; The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city ~ Kevin Stenson; The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state? ~ John Pitts; Section 2: Welfare, agency and resistance: Loïc Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process ~ John J. Rodger; Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism ~ Lynn Hancock and Gerry Mooney; Loïc Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance ~ Lynda Measor; Women, welfare and the carceral state ~ Denise Martin and Paula Wilcox; Section 3: Urbanisation, criminality and penality: Illicit economies and the carceral social zone ~ Vincenzo Ruggiero; The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation ~ Markus-Michael Műller; Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences ~ Peter Squires; Response: The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators ~ Loïc Wacquant.

Peter Squires is Professor of Criminology and Public Policy at the University of Brighton, UK.John Lea is Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Brighton, UK.

"Loïc Wacquant is, without question, one of the most significant critical social scientists of the present period. By exposing his work to rigorous analysis and providing Wacquant with a right of reply, Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality comprises a riveting read." Professor Barry Goldson, The University of Liverpool

• Introduction: reading Loïc Wacquant - opening questions and overview ~ Peter Squires and John Lea; Section 1: Theory and politics: Bringing the state back in: understanding neoliberal security ~ John Lea and Simon Hallsworth; The state, sovereignty and advanced marginality in the city ~ Kevin Stenson; The third time as farce: whatever happened to the penal state? ~ John Pitts; Section 2: Welfare, agency and resistance: Loïc Wacquant and Norbert Elias: advanced marginality and the theory of the de-civilising process ~ John J. Rodger; Beyond the penal state: advanced marginality, social policy and anti-welfarism ~ Lynn Hancock and Gerry Mooney; Loïc Wacquant, gender and cultures of resistance ~ Lynda Measor; Women, welfare and the carceral state ~ Denise Martin and Paula Wilcox; Section 3: Urbanisation, criminality and penality: Illicit economies and the carceral social zone ~ Vincenzo Ruggiero; The universal and the particular in Latin American penal state formation ~ Markus-Michael Műller; Neoliberal, brutish and short? Cities, inequalities and violences ~ Peter Squires; Response: The wedding of workfare and prisonfare in the 21st century: responses to critics and commentators ~ Loïc Wacquant.