Criminalization of Low-Income Women
On September 25, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will present "Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-Income Women" at a UConn Humanities Institute Luncheon Lecture Series.
Professor Kaaryn Gustafson has been recognized with the Herbert Jacob Book Prize for her latest book, Cheating Welfare. The prize is given by the Law and Society Association and is intended to recognize new, outstanding work in law and society scholarship.
Professor Gustafson has extensive knowledge of the nation's welfare system and a passion for getting beyond rhetoric to study how welfare functions in practice. Her dissertation, "The Morality and Rationality of Welfare: Welfare Recipients' Negotiation of the Welfare System," for which she earned a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, is a sophisticated demonstration, based on countless personal interviews with welfare recipients, of why the rules placed on the books by welfare lawmakers may often bear little resemblance to the system experienced by those we are trying to help.
Professor Gustafson is the author of Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty (NYU Press).
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