Support seeking, system avoidance, and citizenship
Social safety net usage after incarceration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680938 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brielle Bryan (0000-0002-5771-2354, Department of Sociology Rice University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 860-903 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-9125.12351 |
| OpenAlex | W4387339935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 66 |
Scholars have long described the American penal state and welfare state as joined by a common logic of social marginalization. But researchers have only recently begun to explore how the individuals who pass through the carceral system also interact with welfare state programs. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, in this article, I explore how formerly incarcerated individuals make claims on the welfare state and how participation varies across social programs and states, as well as by race, drawing on theories of social welfare rights‐claiming and system avoidance. In so doing, I provide the first nationwide estimates of the extent to which previously incarcerated adults use social safety net resources. I find that participation in welfare programs varies with incarceration history, program structure, and race. Rather than finding patterns consistent with system avoidance, I find that previously incarcerated White Americans seem to engage in active rights claiming, participating in public assistance programs more than similarly eligible never‐incarcerated counterparts. All formerly incarcerated individuals, however, have limited access to more generous social insurance programs, and the shift to an increasingly employment‐based social safety net seems likely to further limit access to the welfare state for the growing population of Americans leaving prison
Citizenship · Criminology · Mass incarceration · Political science · Population · Prison · Race (biology · Safety net · Social Welfare · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Welfare system · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Can Social Safety Net Spending Prevent Crime
Surveilling system exposure and parental institutional disengagement
Automating administrative burden in algorithmic criminal record expungement
Anticipatory discrimination
Realistic Reintegration After Imprisonment. A Sequence Analysis of the Labour Market Paths of Recently Incarcerated Individuals
Locked out of banking
The Great Leveler? Juvenile Arrest, College Attainment, and the Future of American Inequality
It's Not Like I'm Poor
Making Rights Claims
Administrative Burden
Unwanted Claims
Homeward
Marked
Employment After Prison
Political participation in the United States
Shifting the Color Line
On the Run
The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System
Getting Tough
Disciplining the Poor
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Arresting Citizenship
Racialized Re-entry
Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood
Whose Need Matters
Understanding the Lives of Mothers after Incarceration
Penal policy and political economy
The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex‐offenders
Devolving the carceral state
Penal controls and social controls
Governing Social Marginality
Carceral Citizenship
Bad jobs and good workers
Making Ends Meet After Prison
Welfare Crises, Penal Solutions, and the Origins of the “Welfare Queen”
The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948–2010
Formerly Incarcerated Parents and Their Children
Falling Further Behind? Child Support Arrears and Fathers’ Labor Force Participation
Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders
Voice and Equality
Rehabilitation in the Punitive Era
Administrative Burden
The Effects of Jail and Prison Confinement on Cohabitation and Marriage
Democratic Contraction? Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States
From Policy to Polity
Surveillance and System Avoidance
A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States
The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality
Schools as Surveilling Institutions? Paternal Incarceration, System Avoidance, and Parental Involvement in Schooling
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market
Redefining Relationships
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Black-White child poverty gap in the United States
Bargaining in the Shadow of Social Institutions
Prisons of Debt
Theorising the power of citizenship as claims-making
Lessons of Welfare
Political Consequences of the Carceral State
Acts of Resistance
Confining Fatherhood
Indebted Relationships
The Uneven Patterning of Welfare Benefits at the Twilight of AFDC
Motherwork Under the State
Liminal Men
Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults
The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South
Work as Foraging
Stress and Hardship after Prison
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |