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

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Leslie Paik

Trapped in a Maze

How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

Leslie Paik

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English

University of California Press
17 August 2021

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Social welfare & social services

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 one institutional involvement 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. By showing families' complex and often unpredictable journeys in this maze, this book reveals the limits of the formal rationality by which these institutions ostensibly function and demonstrates how multi-institutional involvement serves to perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.

By: Leslie Paik
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520344631
ISBN 10: 0520344634
Pages: 185
Publication Date: 17 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leslie Paik is Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. She is the author of Discretionary Justice: Looking inside a Juvenile Drug Court.

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

""In this concise, excellent book, Leslie Paik demonstrates how these institutions, while intended to support poor families, instead trap them deeper in poverty."" * American Journal of Sociology *