Author: Lynne Haney

Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, inte …

Offending Women is an eye-opening journey into the lived reality of prison for women in the United States today. Lynne Haney looks at incarcerated mothers, housed together with their children, who ar …

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it”s hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today”s world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was …

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it”s hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today”s world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was …

A profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt.   In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across …