Policing Welfare Fraud: (Record no. 49046)

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International Standard Book Number 9780367228712
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Classification number 364.1630994 WIL
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Personal name Wilcock, Scarlet
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Title Policing Welfare Fraud:
Remainder of title The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2024
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
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Extent 186
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Title Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
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Summary, etc Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia, which serves as the empirical focus of this book, these strategies include stringent ID checks, pre-emptive data surveillance technologies including the infamous and illegal 'robodebt' programme, a dedicated fraud hotline and an 'intelligence-led' fraud investigation framework. Drawing on original documentary and interview data, including interviews with fraud investigators, this book unpacks the logics that underpin these anti-fraud initiatives with a focus on how these initiatives are imbued with logics and practices more readily associated with the criminal justice system.<br/><br/>The central argument of the book is that the emergence of contemporary welfare compliance regimes represents a form of 'governing through fraud' in which the threat of welfare fraud has effectively necessitated a regime of criminalisation within the welfare state. This has been enabled by a broader process of neoliberal welfare reform, which has cast suspicion over all welfare use. The overall effect of this regime is to restrict access to social security, punish welfare recipients and stigmatise welfare use. Policing Welfare Fraud also highlights points of contradiction and multiplicity in the enactment of specific welfare compliance initiatives, including attempts by welfare officials to moderate or reformulate these strategies 'on the ground'. These findings demonstrate that the criminalisation of welfare is neither uniform nor inexorable, and that more progressive welfare reform is possible.<br/><br/>An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics and those interested in the policing of welfare recipients.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Welfare fraud
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Prevention
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Welfare fraud investigation
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Australia
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