Trapped in a Maze
How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2242995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Edwards (0000-0001-8510-7082, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | e4-e4 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sf/soac024 |
| OpenAlex | W4226107770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality provides a compelling and urgent portrayal of how families in poverty are compelled to interact with the broad range of institutions that have both de facto and de jure authority to manage their access to resources, their custody of their children, their health, and their freedom. Rather than taking an institution-centered approach that might treat policy domains such as education, juvenile justice, health, and child welfare as formally distinct and independent, Paik takes a family centered approach in her ethnographic work with families navigating social control institutions. In doing so, she shows that routine decisions by street-level bureaucrats across agencies interact with each other in uncoordinated ways and can have profoundly disruptive effects on family life. Through the excessive application of surveillance and compliance tests designed to assess a family’s “deservingness” for assistance, these institutions designed to...
Compliance (psychology) · Control (management) · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Family life · Inequality · Informal social control · Institution · Management · Political science · Poverty · Social control · Social science · Social Welfare · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Welfare · Work (physics) · Children's Rights and Participation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Institutional role conflict in the digital age
Talk of Family
Institutional Entanglements
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems
Familienleben im Kontext wohlfahrtsstaatlicher Abhängigkeiten
The child welfare system as a social determinant of health
Legal financial obligations in the United States
Your Hands are Tied, Literally
Re-orienting education toward ‘flourishing’ through education policy
Liability chains and access to justice
The family policing industrial complex
A sociology of entrapment
State-level changes in health insurance coverage and parental substance use-associated foster care entry
Bias, risk, racism
Dual jurisdiction? It doesn’t work like that
The long reach of juvenile and criminal legal debt
Complimentary Addictions
Income Sources Across Childhood in Families With Nonresident Fathers
Spatial Burdens of State Institutions
“It’s two separate systems that … keep you under a thumb”
Administrative burdens as a family affair
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement
The consequences of sibling criminal legal system contact for family life
Publicly housed Black mothers' experiences of structural racism in their everyday lives
System management and compensatory parenting
Contested by the State
Clustered Vulnerabilities
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty
| Citations per year | 7.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |