Trapped in a Maze

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How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality

By Leslie Paik

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Trapped in a Maze explores the intricate experiences of families living in poverty as they navigate interactions with institutions such as welfare, hospitals, courts, housing, and schools. It illuminates how these overlapping systems often confine families within a complex maze, perpetuating poverty despite their attempts to access support services.
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Ideal for students and professionals in social work, public policy, and sociology, as well as readers interested in social justice and poverty studies.

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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. It demonstrates how multi-institutional involvement serves to perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these families are fighting to escape.

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American Journal of Sociology praises the book as a concise and excellent work, highlighting Leslie Paik's demonstration of how institutions intended to aid poor families can, in fact, deepen their struggles with poverty.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520344631

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 2 b-w charts, 3 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 185

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About the Author

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