... easier and cheaper to administer than the current one, and that it would therefore impose fewer employment disincentives, and would reduce errors, fraud, and criminalisation Beveridge William Torry Dr Malcolm benefits system Beveridge Report 1942 Employment family tax and benefits structure...

...This chapter focuses on the problem of insecurity felt by inhabitants of large housing estates, caused by the criminal behaviour of young people in the area. It considers various measures to curb young criminals and discusses the examples of criminalisation and socialisation strategies in France...

... on empirical work in Merseyside, England, the chapter argues that regeneration has, rather than leading to social inclusion, contributed to the criminalisation and exclusion of neighbourhoods and residents touched by these programmes. communitarianism crime housing investment Merseyside neoliberalism...

...Chapter Eight applies Habermas’s analyses to demonstrate how juridification processes in general serve to ameliorate the deleterious effects of the domination of social priorities by political-economic priorities, to establish appropriate conditions for processes of criminalisation, and to make...

... the opportunity presented by Wacquant's work to re-engage with a radical politics of law and order, criminalisation and marginality, whilst raising issues of gender, resistance, conflict and history which, they argue, help to enrich and further develop Wacquant's analyses and the discipline of criminology itself...

...This chapter introduces the key theme of the book, the criminalisation of social policy and elaborates on how it is understood by the authors. It identifies the target audience and the geographical scope of the book’s coverage. It explains that the book builds on the work of others by bringing...

...Chapter two builds on the introduction by elaborating on how the criminalisation of social policy has been developed, shaped and challenged by academics and researchers over time in different jurisdictions. This chapter provides a solid foundation for subsequent chapters. criminalisation of social...

...Focusing on the Criminalisation of Social Policy, this book explores the intersections between crime and social policy and the ways in which contemporary social policies in many different countries look more like crime control policies. From anti-immigration agendas, which criminalise vulnerable...

...Sex work laws are highly contentious globally and while sex worker led organisations have been calling for decriminalisation for decades, legislative frameworks continue be punitive, with various forms of criminalisation in place. The decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand was a unique change...

...Chapter 4 explores the impact of the criminalisation of squatting (section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012) in England and Wales. I begin by providing an overview of squatting culture in London since the mid-twentieth century, including how anti-squatting...

...At the heart of British drug policy lies a prohibitionist stance that prioritises the relationship between drugs and crime, resulting in both increased medicalisation based on outdated notions of addiction and compulsion, and increased criminalisation dominated by ‘war on drugs’ and ‘law and order...

... and to prevent youth crime. It raises some important questions about prevention strategies, such as whether early intervention is symptomatic of a creeping criminalisation of social policy whereby a coercive approach is used to force so-called problem families and their children to engage with services; how...

... Taylor K 218 Centre community based provision Scotland Together Women women’s centres women law breakers criminalisation offending profile persistence desistance policy developments Baroness Corston’s report, A review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice...

... Basic Income would not cause problems for the administration of any other parts of the system, and therefore would make a good basis for a future benefits and tax structure. Finally, it explains why and how a Citizen's Basic Income would reduce administrative error, fraud and criminalisation. benefits...

..., and the tensions and contradictions that have emerged between, ‘community safety’ and ‘social inclusion’ strategies and approaches. It argues that there has been a reconfiguration of inequalities in cities, which has profound implications for victimisation, criminalisation, and criminality. It notes that the most...

... the government's position on indoor sex work in contrast to street prostitution. It questions why the government refuses to acknowledge, debate, or make provisions for voluntary sex work beyond the criminalisation agenda. The chapter explores the reasons for ‘tackling demand’, the mechanisms for doing so...

.... The longstanding history of criminalising the poor is acknowledged, but the particular shape this is taking in recent years across different social and cultural spheres is given consideration.  With a focus on recent positive developments in Scotland, the case for a new welfare imaginary is asserted. austerity...

...This chapter draws attention to the interrelated processes of the criminalisation of immigration, as well as the growing imbrication of immigration control with social policy that arise in a world where national sovereignty, citizenship and the corresponding attribution of rights are inextricably...

... Knepper P ASB anti social behaviour Cameron David sanctioning and penalties terrorism workfare punishment stigmatisation welfare reform Scotland Gove Michael Germany Donelan Michelle alternative trajectories Family Social Policy Family Support Criminalisation Adoption Adverse Childhood...