Cheating Welfare

Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20021064
AutoresKaaryn Gustafson (autor correspondente), Kaaryn S Gustafson
Ano2016
Páginas227
Data de publicação2016-04-19
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCheating welfare (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9780814732311.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236263223
Open LibraryOL25161902M
ISBN9780814732311
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDN-dwPuZf-IUC
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas78

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. This book endeavors to clear up these gray areas by providing insights into the history, social construction, and lived experience of welfare. It shows why welfare cheating is all but inevitable—not because poor people are immoral, but because ordinary individuals navigating complex systems of rules are likely to become entangled despite their best efforts. Through an examination of the construction of the crime we know as welfare fraud, the book challenges readers to question their assumptions about welfare policies, welfare recipients, and crime control in the United States

Cheating · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economics · Law and economics · Political science · Public economics · Punitive damages · Sociology · Welfare · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Armut · Bedrägeri · California · Case studies · Kriminalisierung · Public welfare · Sozialpolitik · united states · Välfärdsstaten · Welfare fraud