Policing Welfare Fraud - The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance

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

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Funding
List of Abbreviations
Disclaimer
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': Responsibilising Welfare Compliance
7 Deterrence, Disruption, Deservingness: Prosecuting Welfare Fraud in Australia
8 Conclusion
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Scarlet Wilcock
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2023
• EAN: 9780367228712
• ISBN: 978-0-367-22871-2
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / International, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, International Law, Systems of law, Social welfare & social services, Social issues & processes, Social welfare and social services, Legal aspects of criminology, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects