Lectures 1-3

Question 1

Overview of deserving and undeserving in CJS and WST

Answer 1

Deserving - no personal responsiblity
CJS: Ideal victim
WST: Contributors, powerful, blameless
Undeserving - personal responsibility
CJS: victim blamed, irresponsible
WST: “scroungers”

Question 2

Goldson (2002) ?

Answer 2

New Labour
Poor child criminals - Youth justice system reorganised
Favoured punitive response - favor of electorate

Question 3

Criteria for a willingness for target group to be identified as deserving (Schneider / Ingram 1993)

Answer 3

Must be: popular, powerful, well regarded, address recognised social problem

Question 4

Criteria for a willingness for target group to be identified as deserving (Van Oorschot 2000)

Answer 4

C:Can they control their needs?
N:How great are their needs?
I:Do they Identify with us?
A:Are they grateful?
R:Have they earned support?

Question 5

Carabine (2001) ?

Answer 5

How single mothers were seen in 1830s and 1990s
1830s: single mothers undeserving , poor releif encourages sex before marriage, widows are deserving
1990s: Children outside of marriage is social problem,

Question 6

Kohler - Hausmann (2015) ?

Answer 6

“welfare queens”
expenses of welfare recipiants increased, campaign against welfare fraud started
Anti-fraud campaign costly but politically rewarding
Benefits too low to live on, worked other jobs = called fraud, stigmitisation

Question 7

Piven & Cloward (1993) ?

Answer 7

Public welfare as social control
mass unemployment = destabalisation, poor as threat
releif to help unrest, benefits conditional on work
Cut benefits when social peace resotred e.g great depression
Relief = surrogate system of social control