Name: Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats From the Poor law to the Present (Volume 9) (States, People, and the History of Social Change) (en Inglés)
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Author: Steven King
ISBN: 9780228022800

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Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats From the Poor law to the Present (Volume 9) (States, People, and the History of Social Change) (en Inglés)

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Mcgill-Queen's University Press

Autor

Steven King

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Inglés

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378

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Tapa Blanda

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9780228022800

Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats From the Poor law to the Present (Volume 9) (States, People, and the History of Social Change) (en Inglés)

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The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official statistics suggest that relatively small amounts of money are lost to such schemes. In Fraudulent Lives Steven King focuses on the British case in the first ever long-term analysis of the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in Western nations. King argues that an expectation of dishonesty on the part of claimants was written into the basic fabric of the founding statutes of the British welfare state in 1601, and that nothing has subsequently changed. Efforts throughout history to detect and punish fraud have been superficial at best because, he argues, it has never been in the interests of the three main stakeholders - claimants, the general public, and officials and policymakers - to eliminate it. Tracing a substantial underbelly of fraud from the seventeenth century to today, King finds remarkable continuities and historical parallels in public attitudes towards the honesty of welfare recipients - patterns that hold true across Western welfare states.