The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality : : Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change / / Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B.R. Stewart.

Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This boo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Welfare Conditionality
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 2 Black and White
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Other title:Front Matter --
Contents --
List of figures and tables --
List of abbreviations --
About the authors --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction --
Conditionality in the UK welfare state --
Welfare conditionality and behaviour change --
From welfare to work? The effectiveness of welfare conditionality in moving people into paid employment --
Welfare conditionality and problematic or antisocial behaviour --
Unintended outcomes? The wider impacts of compulsion and benefit sanctions in social security --
Ethical debates --
Conclusions --
Methods appendix --
References --
Index
Summary:Should a citizen’s right to social welfare be contingent on their personal behaviour? Welfare conditionality, linking citizens’ eligibility for social benefits and services to prescribed compulsory responsibilities or behaviours, has become a key component of welfare reform in many nations. This book uses qualitative longitudinal data, from repeat interviews with people subject to compulsion and sanction in their everyday lives, to analyse the effectiveness and ethicality of welfare conditionality in promoting and sustaining behaviour change in the UK. Given the negative outcomes that welfare conditionality routinely triggers, this book calls for the abandonment of these sanctions and reiterates the importance of genuinely supportive policies that promote social security and wider equality.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781447343721
9783111196770
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Peter Dwyer, Lisa Scullion, Katy Jones, Jenny McNeill, Alasdair B.R. Stewart.