Francois Bonnet │ Sociology

I am a Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) at UMR Pacte (University of Grenoble Alpes - Sciences Po Grenoble).

I am the Managing editor of the European Journal of Sociology.

The Upper Limit
How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare

University of California Press, 2019

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English title: Controlling Populations through Space? Situational Crime Prevention and CCTV in Railway Stations and Shopping Centers

English title: Social Distance in Fieldwork: Strategic Skills and Cultural Skills in Research Interactions

English title: The Perverse Effects of Sharing Security. Private and Public Polices in a Railroad Station and a Shopping Mall

English title: A Crime Without Deviance. Employee Theft as a Routine Activity

English title: Employee Theft. A Literature Review

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PHD THESIS

Ota de Leonardis, Università di Milano-Bicocca (co-advisor)
François Dubet, EHESS et Université de Bordeaux-2 (referee)
Yves Grafmeyer, Lyon-2 (referee)
Hugues Lagrange, Sciences Po, CNRS-Observatoire Sociologique du Changement
Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po, CNRS-Cevipof (co-advisor)
Enzo Mingione, Università di Milano-Bicocca (prsident of the committee)

Francois Bonnet Contact UMR Pacte, Institut d’études politiques BP 48, 38040 Grenoble cedex 9, France	CV en français (.pdf) Curriculum Vitae in English (.pdf) Google Scholar citations BOOK
I am a Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) at UMR Pacte (University of Grenoble Alpes - Sciences Po Grenoble). I am the Managing editor of the European Journal of Sociology.
	The Upper Limit How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare University of California Press, 2019
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	Abstract
	Since 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the country’s mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the 1970s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher. François Bonnet shows how low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy, where welfare must be less attractive than low-wage work and criminal life must be less attractive than welfare. In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society. The Upper Limit explores the local consequences of this punitive adjustment in East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood where crime fell in the 1990s. Bonnet argues that no meaningful penal reform can happen unless living standards and the minimum wage rise again. Enlightening and provocative, The Upper Limit provides a comprehensive theory of the evolution of social and penal policy.
	Reviews
	"A book of incredible scope, complexity, and erudition, The Upper Limit shows how paying the lowest possible wages to workers at the bottom of the labor market makes us all less secure." —Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block "The concept of less eligibility is essential for understanding social control policies in the modern world. This book offers readers an excellent account of how this concept explains the trajectories of punishment and welfare policy in America. It should be read by everyone with an interest in these important subjects." —Ahmed White, author of The Last Great Strike ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTICLES & CHAPTERS Bonnet F., Etienne Lalé, Mirna Safi and Etienne Wasmer. 2016. Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit’s findings and interviews’ findings in the Parisian housing market, Urban Studies. 53(13) pp. 2815–2833 Bonnet F. and Sudhir Venkatesh. 2016. Poverty and informal economies, in David Brady and Linda Burton (dir.), Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty, Oxford University Press, pp. 637-659 Quentin Batréau and F. Bonnet 2016, Managed informality. Regulating street vendors in Bangkok, City & Community, 15 (1), pp. 29-43 Clément Théry et F. Bonnet. 2016, La sociologie américaine de la pauvreté, du ghetto wilsonien aux villes globales, Sociologie, 7 (1), pp. 77-94 Bonnet F. 2015, “Violences conjugales, genre et criminalisation: synthèse des débats américains”, Revue française de sociologie, 56 (2), pp. 357-383 Bonnet F. and Clotilde Caillault. 2015. “The invader, the enemy within and they-who-must-not-be-named. How police talk about minorities in Italy, the Netherlands and France”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38 (7), pp. 1185-1201), pp. 1185-1201 Bonnet F., Jacques de Maillard and Sebastian Roché. 2015. “Plural policing of public space in France. Between private and local policing”, European Journal of Policing Studies, 2 (3), pp. 285-303 Bonnet F., “How to perform non-racism? Colorblind speech norms and race-conscious policies among French security personnel”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40 (8), 2014, pp. 1275-1294 Bonnet F., “Contrôler des populations par l'espace? Prévention situationnelle et vidéosurveillance dans les gares et les centres commerciaux”, Politix, vol. 25, n°97, 2012, pp. 25-46 English title: Controlling Populations through Space? Situational Crime Prevention and CCTV in Railway Stations and Shopping Centers Bonnet F., “Les machines politiques aux États-Unis. Clientélisme et immigration entre 1870 et 1950”, Politix, vol. 23, n°92, 2010, pp. 7-27 English title: Machines Politics in the United States. Clientelism and immigration, 1870-1950 Bonnet F., “Managing marginality in railway stations: beyond the welfare and social control debate”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33 (4), 2009, pp. 1029-1044 Bonnet F. and Bénédicte Robert, “La régulation éthique de la recherche aux Etats-Unis : histoire, état des lieux et enjeux” , Genèses, n°75, juin 2009, pp. 87-108 English title: Ethical Regulation of Research in the United States Bonnet F., “La distance sociale dans le travail de terrain : compétence stratégique et compétence culturelle dans l’interaction d’enquête”, Genèses, n°73, décembre 2008, pp. 57-74 English title: Social Distance in Fieldwork: Strategic Skills and Cultural Skills in Research Interactions Bonnet F., “Les effets pervers du partage de la sécurité. Polices publiques et privées dans une gare et un centre commercial”, Sociologie du travail, 50 (4), 2008, pp. 505-520 English title: The Perverse Effects of Sharing Security. Private and Public Polices in a Railroad Station and a Shopping Mall Bonnet F., “Un crime sans déviance : le vol en interne comme activité routinière”, Revue française de sociologie, 49 (2), 2008, pp. 331-350 English title: A Crime Without Deviance. Employee Theft as a Routine Activity Bonnet F., “Le vol en interne : les vols commis par les salariés sur leur lieu de travail”, Sociologie du travail, 49 (4), 2007, pp. 544-556 English title: Employee Theft. A Literature Review Bonnet F., “De l’analyse économique du crime aux nouvelles criminologies anglo-saxonnes ? Les origines théoriques des politiques pénales contemporaines”, Déviance et société, 30 (2), 2006, pp. 137-154 English title: Economics, Conservative Criminology and Contemporary Penal Policies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PHD THESIS La production organisée de l'ordre. Contrôler des gares et des centres commerciaux à Lyon et à Milan (English title: The organized production of order. Controlling railway stations and shopping centers) Prix Gabriel Tarde / Gabriel Tarde Award 2007 from the French Society of Criminology for Best dissertation Télécharger les rapports de soutenance / Download the referees' comments Télécharger le .pdf de la thèse (1,5 mo) / Download the dissertation's pdf file (1.5 Mb) Dissertation defended on January 20th, 2006, at Sciences Po (Paris) before : Ota de Leonardis, Università di Milano-Bicocca (co-advisor) François Dubet, EHESS et Université de Bordeaux-2 (referee) Yves Grafmeyer, Lyon-2 (referee) Hugues Lagrange, Sciences Po, CNRS-Observatoire Sociologique du Changement Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po, CNRS-Cevipof (co-advisor) Enzo Mingione, Università di Milano-Bicocca (prsident of the committee) Mention Très honorable et félicitations du jury à l'unanimité / Best distinction