Welfare Fraud:The Constitution of Social Assistance as Crime
By: Professor Janet Mosher, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
and Professor Joe Hermer, Division of Social Sciences, University of
Toronto at
Scarborough
2005

http://tinyurl.com/9b42b

"The impression that there is widespread defrauding of benefits by
recipients has been so successfully installed in public discourse and
government policy
that social assistance is now primarily viewed not as a necessary form of
support for
those in need, but rather negatively, as a burdensome problem of
regulation, policing
and crime control. Those on social assistance, the far majority of them
women and
children, are widely viewed as morally suspect persons, criminals in
waiting poised to
abuse a public expenditure and trust."

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