Policing Welfare Fraud

ISBN-13: 9780367228712 / Twarda / 2023 / 208 str.

Scarlet Wilcock

Opis

Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance.

Recenzje

'In the aftermath of Australia’s internationally infamous Robodebt scandal, Policing Welfare Fraud is a must read for understanding the decades’ long blending of the welfare and penal states in Australia. Through incisive empirical analysis, Wilcock demonstrates how welfare is governed through fraud, even though most debts are not fraudulent. She contests grand narratives of the criminalisation of poverty, showing that welfare compliance regimes are more messy, contradictory and complicated, thus highlighting how contemporary welfare can be otherwise enacted.'

Professor Paul Henman, Professor for Digital Sociology & Social Policy, University of Queensland

'An incisive and sophisticated examination of how Australia’s welfare compliance regime emerged from a program of neo-liberal welfare 'reform' which seeks to stigmatise 'welfare dependency', 'govern through fraud', assemble punitive compliance regimes and criminalise welfare recipients. Compelling reading.'

Emeritus Professor David Brown, Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales

Spis treści

1.   1.Introduction  2.A History of Welfare Fraud Policing  3.Governing Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance in Neoliberal Times  4.Preventing or Pre-empting Welfare Compliance? Policing the Borders of the Welfare State  5.Managing ‘Risky’ Recipients: Data-Mining Risk Profiling and Tiered Compliance Reviews  6.Making Welfare Fraud ‘Everybody’s Business’: Responsibilizing Welfare Compliance  7.Deterrence, Disruption, Deservingness: Prosecuting Welfare Fraud in Australia  8.Conclusion

O autorze

Scarlet Wilcock is Lecturer at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Australia and an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.