Cheating Welfare Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty

Name: Cheating Welfare Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty
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ISBN: 9780814760796

ISBN-10: 0814760791

ISBN-13: 9780814760796

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kaaryn S. Gustafson

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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.InCheating Welfare, Kaaryn S. Gustafson endeavors to clear up these gray areas by providing insights into the history, social construction, and lived experience of welfare.…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Kaaryn S. Gustafson is a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



Introduction



Reconstructing Social Ills: From the Perils of Poverty to Welfare Dependency



The Criminalization of Poverty



A Glimpse at the Interviewees



Living within and without the Rules



Engaging with Rules and Negotiating Compliance



Contextualizing Criminality, Noncompliance, and Resistance



Cheating Ourselves



Critical Methodology



Interview Schedule


Works Cited


Index


About the Author