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Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty

Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty

Hardcover

CriminologyPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814732313
ISBN13: 9780814732311
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jul 25 2011
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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