Author : Kiran Mirchandani,Wendy Chan
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123316312
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty by Kiran Mirchandani,Wendy Chan Pdf
The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that "a war against the poor" is currently in progress. The authors argue that poor people in general and people of colour in particular are most often the casualties in governments' desire to roll back the welfare state. Relying on myths and stereotypes about racial difference, the enforcement and policing of welfare fraud policies constructs people of colour and the poor as potential "cheaters" and "abusers" of the system. This has allowed for the stigmatizing and discriminatory treatment of these people to persist unchallenged within the welfare system. Book jacket.