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Policing welfare : punitive adversarialism in public assistance / Spencer Headworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Headworth, Spencer, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare fraud investigation--United States.
- Welfare fraud investigation.
- Welfare fraud investigation--United States--Case studies.
- Welfare fraud--United States.
- Welfare fraud.
- Law enforcement--United States.
- Law enforcement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Means-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the 'truly needy.' Welfare is regarded with such suspicion in this country that considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Even minor infractions of the many rules can cause people to be dropped from these programs, and possibly face criminal prosecution. In this book, Spencer Headworth offers the first study of the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The Strings Attached
- Chapter 2. One Nation, Finding Fraud
- Chapter 3. The Mill and the Grist
- Chapter 4. The Welfare Police
- Chapter 5. Occupational Frames and Identities in Fraud Control Work
- Chapter 6. Fraud Control as Performance
- Chapter 7. The Blame Game
- Chapter 8. Finding Welfare Rule Violators
- Chapter 9. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9780226779539
- 022677953X
- OCLC:
- 1247659638
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