Overpoliced and Underprotected
On January 27, Professor Kaaryn Gustafson will be a panelist at the UCLA Law Review symposium, "Overpoliced and Underprotected: Women, Race,and Criminalization." The panel she will speak on is entitled "Crime, Punishment, and the Management of Racial Marginality."
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 2011)
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