Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

Trapped in a Maze provides a window into families' lived experiences in poverty by looking at their...
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Author: Leslie Paik
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Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality by Paik, Leslie

Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

€70,28

Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

€70,28
Author: Leslie Paik
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 involvement with one institution 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. Tracing the complex and often unpredictable journeys of families in this maze, this book reveals how the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly operate undercuts what they can actually achieve. And worse, it demonstrates how involvement with multiple institutions can perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.



Author: Leslie Paik
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/17/2021
Pages: 185
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520344648

About the Author

Leslie Paik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York. She is the author of Discretionary Justice: Looking inside a Juvenile Drug Court.


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