Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

While behavioural conditionality for disability benefit claimants has been increasing, there is
little evidence on its implementation or impacts. This article summarises existing studies …

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

The vast majority of asylum seekers in the UK are not permitted to enter the labour market. In
the absence of the right to work asylum seekers receive welfare support, which amounts to …

Since 2009, the UK has witnessed marked increases in the rate of sanctions applied to
unemployment insurance claimants, as part of a wider agenda of austerity and welfare …

Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book Prize Britain is often heralded as a
country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well …

Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards
construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitarian phenomenon, to construing it …

This article critiques Kemeny's theory of housing regimes to explain housing systems
change. Power balances mediated through institutional structures are underlying causes of …

The Grenfell Tower fire that took place in a council owned high-rise housing block in the
early hours of 14 June 2017 in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea represented …

Will a new NHS structure in England help recovery from the pandemic? Page 1 Will a new
NHS structure in England help recovery from the pandemic? The health policy challenges …