Punitive benefit sanctions, welfare conditionality and the social abuse of unemployed people in Britain: transforming claimants into offenders?

A defining feature of U.K. welfare reform since 2010 has been the concerted move towards greater compulsion and sanctioning, which has been interpreted by some social policy scholars as punitive and cruel. In this article, we borrow concepts from criminology and sociology to develop new interpretati...

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1. VerfasserIn: Fletcher, Del (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Wright, Sharon ; Stewart, Alasdair
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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