Над 4 милиона заглавия на английски и други езици! Открийте новата си история още днес! Безплатна доставка за поръчки над 69.99€

Виж статуса на поръчката

Свържете се с нас

Cheating Welfare

Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty

Автор: Kaaryn S. Gustafson

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Наличност: Външен склад

Изпращаме след 9-15 дни

39.50 € 77.26 лв

Over the last three decades, welfare policies have been informed by popular beliefs that welfare fra...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Kaaryn S. Gustafson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

238

EAN

9780814760796

ISBN

0814760791

Enbook ID

04932110

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

332

Размери

153 x 228 x 15

Пълно описание

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. In Cheating Welfare, Kaaryn S. Gustafson endeavours to clear up these gray areas by providing insights into the history, social construction, and lived experience of welfare. She shows why cheating is all but inevitable - not because poor people are immoral, but because ordinary individuals navigating complex systems of rules are likely to become entangled despite their best efforts. Through an examination of the construction of the crime we know as welfare fraud, which she bases on in-depth interviews with welfare recipients in Northern California, Gustafson challenges readers to question their assumptions about welfare policies, welfare recipients, and crime control in the United States.