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.

Product details

• Authors: Scarlet Wilcock
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032638775
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3263877-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Justice in Asia and the Global South
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare and social services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology