"THE CRIME OF SURVIVAL": FRAUD PROSECUTIONS, COMMUNITY SURVEILLANCE, AND THE ORIGINAL "WELFARE QUEEN.".
The article investigates how the increased monitoring of welfare recipients by police and criminal prosecutors amplified and solidified recipients' marginalized position in society. It explores the anti-welfare fraud initiatives in Illinois during the 1970 to show that charges of criminality were cr...
| Published in: | Journal of Social History Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 329 - 355 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Winter2007
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| Summary: | The article investigates how the increased monitoring of welfare recipients by police and criminal prosecutors amplified and solidified recipients' marginalized position in society. It explores the anti-welfare fraud initiatives in Illinois during the 1970 to show that charges of criminality were critical to accelerating the stigmatization of welfare recipients. According to the author, the anti-fraud campaign in the state framed welfare recipients, who were already burdened in the public discourse by the intersecting stigma of race, class and gender as deceptive criminals. |
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