Welfare policy as social control: A specific test of the Piven and Cloward thesis

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 132-152

  Chamlin, Mitchell B ^a   Burek, Melissa W ^b   Cochran, John K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict theory; Interrupted time series; Macrosocial control

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249154330     PISSN: 08874034     EISSN: 15523586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0887403406294950     Document Type: Article

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