Fraudulent Lives
Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
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2024
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2279-4 (ISBN)
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2279-4 (ISBN)
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Fraudulent Lives analyzes the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in a Western nation from the seventeenth century to present day. It argues that fraud is written into the fabric of the founding statues of the British welfare state – and eliminating it has never been in the nation’s best interest.
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.
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.
Steven King is professor of economic and social history at Nottingham Trent University and co-author of In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | States, People, and the History of Social Change |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 diagrams, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Montreal |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-2280-2279-7 / 0228022797 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-2280-2279-4 / 9780228022794 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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