The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies

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The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies
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Table of contents
1 Introduction
	Audience
	Periodisation
	Geographical context and limitations
	Structure of the book
2 Introducing the Criminalisation of Social Policy and an Overview of Relevant Scholarship
	Introduction
	Introducing social policy
	Introducing criminal justice policy
	Criminal justice and social policy intersections
	Emerging concern with the criminalisation of social policy
	Consolidation and proliferation of the criminalisation of social policy in the 2000s
		Criminalisation, the penalisation of poverty and governing through crime
	Criminalisation of social policy after 2010
		Austerity and the criminalisation of social policy
		Marketisation, penal/mission drift and the criminalisation of social policy
		Securitisation of social policy
	‘Policing the family’, governmentality, discipline and the criminalisation of social policy
	The criminalisation of social policy corrected and contested
	Conclusion
3 Disciplining the Poor: Welfare Conditionality, Labour Market Activation and Welfare ‘Fraud’
	Introduction
	Labour market activation policy
	Welfare conditionality policy
		The impact of welfare conditionality and disciplinary administrative sanctioning
		In-work poverty and ‘corporate’ welfare
	The activation of lone parents: case study
	The pursuit of welfare fraud
	Welfare ‘fraud’ and the advance of the digital welfare state
	Culturalising poverty: the subjectification and stigmatisation of welfare recipients
	A new welfare imaginary?
	Conclusion
	Note
4 Criminalising Borders, Migration and Mobility
	The strategic production of outsiders: governing migration through criminal law
	An exploitation of contradictions: the criminalisation of migration
	The detention of unwanted bodies
	Expanding the carceral net through criminalisation by proxy
	The criminalisation of solidarity
	Criminalising through welfare exclusion
	From welfare chauvinism to welfare nationalism
	The deployment of ethno-racial dividing practices
	Conclusion: a world without borders?
5 Criminalising Homelessness and Poverty through Urban Policy
	Introduction
	Deepening and diversifying the criminalisation of homelessness
	Gentrification, inequality and criminalisation
	Designing homelessness out the entrepreneurial city
	Policing homelessness in the revanchist city
	Managerial policing and benevolent care
	Territorial stigmatisation and criminalisation
	Conclusion: in search of solutions …?
6 Policing Parenting, Family ‘Support’ and the Discipline and Punishment of Poor Families
	Introduction
	Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): ‘We have the science to act but do we really?’
	Family ‘support’ via programmatic interventions
		Nurse Family Partnership/Family Nurse Partnership
		The Troubled Families Programme
	Child protection and non-consensual adoption policy
		Adoption without consent
	Supporting parents and families: future directions
7 Criminalising Justice-Involved Persons through Rehabilitation and Reintegration Policies
	Problematising the classed nature and effects of the rehabilitation paradigm
	Extending punishment and hindering rehabilitation and reintegration: risk-managing justice-involved persons’ criminal records
	The politics of the welfare state and its effects on reintegration
	Privatised reintegration and rehabilitation
	The right to rehabilitation and reintegration
	Contentious rights in conservative welfare states
	Reintegrating the entrepreneurial self: setting people up for failure?
	From transformative to mutual reintegration?
8 Re-envisioning Alternative Futures
	Remaining hopeful: imagining alternative futures
	Crises as impetus for change?
	Utopian visions
	Resistance, hope and respair
	Role of the state and democratic participation and deliberation
	Concluding note
References
Index
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