Interoganizational utility of welfare stigma in the criminal justice system

The appropriation of “welfare stigma” or stereotypes about poor people's overreliance and abuse of public aid in two core criminal justice functions is examined: felony adjudication in a court system and space allocation in a jail. Through a comparative ethnographic study in which an abductive...

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Authors: Lara-Millán, Armando (Author) ; Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-84
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Punishment
Jails
Courts
Race
Discretion
Prisons
Strafvollzug
USA