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Systemic Contradictions - Armando Lara-Millán, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 240 pages)

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Armando Lara-Millán, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity (New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 240 pages)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Angèle Christin*
Affiliation:
Department Of Communication, Stanford University, USA [angelec@stanford.edu].
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© European Journal of Sociology 2022

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