Cheating welfare : public assistance and the criminalization of poverty /
"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 locale...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
