RT Book
T1 Trapped in a maze: how social control institutions drive family poverty and inequality
A1 Paik, Leslie
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1742871224
AB Prologue : the Hernandez family -- Introduction -- Concurrent involvement : challenges in navigating multiple institutions at once -- Revisiting the past to understand the present : temporal view of family multi-institutional involvement -- Who's in the family? multi-household exploration of the maze -- Mitigating factors : institutional mismatch and unpredictability in the maze -- Conclusion : reflections on the maze and practical steps forward -- Postscript : Brief update about the families -- Appendix A : Methodology and reflexivity -- Appendix B : List of families.
AB "Trapped in a Maze provides a window into families' lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. Families are more intertwined with institutions than ever as they struggle to maintain their eligibility for services and face the possibility that one institutional involvement could trigger other types of institutional oversight. Many poor families find themselves trapped in a multi-institutional maze, stuck in-between several systems with no clear path to resolution. By showing families' complex and often unpredictable journeys in this maze, this book reveals the limits of the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly function and demonstrates how multi-institutional involvement serves to perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN 362.5/5610973
SN 0520344642
SN 9780520344631
SN 9780520344648
K1 Armut
K1 Familie
K1 Soziale Lage
K1 Familiensoziologie
K1 Familienpolitik
K1 Sozialpolitik
K1 Usa
K1 Poverty : Government policy : United States
K1 Poor families : United States : Social conditions
K1 Public Welfare : United States
K1 USA : Familie : Armut : Sozialeinrichtung : Interaktion