Cheating Welfare : : Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty / / Kaaryn S. Gustafson.
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 prosec...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Reconstructing Social Ills
- 3. The Criminalization of Poverty
- 4. A Glimpse at the Interviewees
- 5. Living within and without the Rules
- 6. Engaging with Rules and Negotiating Compliance
- 7. Contextualizing Criminality, Noncompliance, and Resistance
- 8. Cheating Ourselves
- Appendix A: Critical Methodology
- Appendix B: Interview Schedule
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author