Cheating Welfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheating Welfare write by Kaaryn S. Gustafson. This book was released on 2012-07-01. Cheating Welfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the history and prevalence of welfare fraud using interviews and case studies.
Cheating Welfare
Cheating Welfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cheating Welfare write by Kaaryn S Gustafson. This book was released on 2011-07-25. Cheating Welfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 endeavors 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.
Welfare Cheating
Welfare Cheating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welfare Cheating write by Russell B. Long. This book was released on 1972. Welfare Cheating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats write by Star Parker. This book was released on 1998-02. Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Star Parker tells the inspirational story of how she turned her life around from a world of drugs, crime, and welfare to success as an entrepreneur, founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, and spokesperson for African-American conservatives. Reprint.
Policing Welfare Fraud
Policing Welfare Fraud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policing Welfare Fraud write by Scarlet Wilcock. This book was released on 2023-12-11. Policing Welfare Fraud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia, which serves as the empirical focus of this book, these strategies include stringent ID checks, pre-emptive data surveillance technologies including the infamous and illegal ‘robodebt’ programme, a dedicated fraud hotline and an ‘intelligence-led’ fraud investigation framework. Drawing on original documentary and interview data, including interviews with fraud investigators, this book unpacks the logics that underpin these anti-fraud initiatives with a focus on how these initiatives are imbued with logics and practices more readily associated with the criminal justice system. The central argument of the book is that the emergence of contemporary welfare compliance regimes represents a form of ‘governing through fraud’ in which the threat of welfare fraud has effectively necessitated a regime of criminalisation within the welfare state. This has been enabled by a broader process of neoliberal welfare reform, which has cast suspicion over all welfare use. The overall effect of this regime is to restrict access to social security, punish welfare recipients and stigmatise welfare use. Policing Welfare Fraud also highlights points of contradiction and multiplicity in the enactment of specific welfare compliance initiatives, including attempts by welfare officials to moderate or reformulate these strategies ‘on the ground’. These findings demonstrate that the criminalisation of welfare is neither uniform nor inexorable, and that more progressive welfare reform is possible. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics and those interested in the policing of welfare recipients.
