CRIM 213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Welfare Fraud, Poverty In Canada, Affidavit
27 May 2016
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Welfare fraud takes a central place in this attack on the poor. Liberal government was elected and didn"t appeal the lifetime ban. Bond and rogers case raises many theoretical and empirical questions related to regulation, law, morality and the relationship between them at particular historical moments. These cases are drawn to analyze the intensified criminalization of poverty signified by the shift from welfare fraud to welfare as fraud. Argued that the shift reflected moral regulation in neo-liberal states. In contemporary society, neo-liberal ideologies and the conceptualization of welfare as fraud continue to harm he lives of the poor. Concept of moral regulation was developed during 1980s by marxist influenced theorists who linked it to processes of state formation. Through the 1990s, a number of canadian scholars pointed to the importance of non-state forces and discourses in moral regulation, arguing that the state doesn"t hold a monopoly on social and moral initiatives. The double taxonomy of moral regulation: compulsion and self-regulation.
