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From Welfare Fraud to Welfare as Fraud The Criminalization of Poverty

From: Criminalizing Women

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Dorothy E. Chunn

Dorothy Chunn is a professor emerita of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. She has published widely in the areas of feminism, law and social change, politics of family, sociology of crime, madness, and welfare, and media depictions of “social problems.” Shelley A.M. Gavigan is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law Schooll, York University, and Academic Director of the Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services. In addition to teaching in the area of poverty law and clinical education, she also teaches in the areas of criminal law, family law, law and poverty, and children of the law.

Shelley A.M. Gavigan

Dorothy Chunn is a professor emerita of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. She has published widely in the areas of feminism, law and social change, politics of family, sociology of crime, madness, and welfare, and media depictions of “social problems.” Shelley A.M. Gavigan is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law Schooll, York University, and Academic Director of the Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services. In addition to teaching in the area of poverty law and clinical education, she also teaches in the areas of criminal law, family law, law and poverty, and children of the law.