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Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty
Kaaryn S. Gustafson
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Description for Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty
Paperback. Challenges assumptions about welfare policies, welfare recipients, and crime control Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB; JKV; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Over the last three decades, welfare policies have been informed by popular beliefs that welfare fraud is rampant. As a result, welfare policies have become more punitive and the boundaries between the welfare system and the criminal justice system have blurred—so much so that in some locales prosecution caseloads for welfare fraud exceed welfare caseloads. In reality, some recipients manipulate the welfare system for their own ends, others are gravely hurt by punitive policies, and still others fall somewhere in between.
In Cheating Welfare, Kaaryn S. Gustafson endeavors to clear up these gray areas by providing insights into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814760796
SKU
V9780814760796
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About Kaaryn S. Gustafson
Kaaryn S. Gustafson is Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty
The 1990s ushered in an era of neoliberal changes in the US in public policies aimed at the poor. Key to these modifications was a shift in ideological thought that mandated personal responsibility for all. Poverty researchers have always paid attention to the hegemonic discourses that shaped public policy, ranging from regulating the behaviors of the poor, to determining which ... Read more