The Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change

Front Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nThe Impacts of Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions Support and Behaviour Change\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nList of figures and tables\nList of abbreviations\nAbout the authors\nAcknowledgements\nONE Introduction\n	Welfare states and conditionality: questions of principle and priority\n	Defining welfare conditionality\n	Welfare conditionality and the reconfiguration of social citizenship\n	Welfare conditionality: towards an active world of welfare?\n	Outline of chapters\n	Notes\nTWO Conditionality in the UK welfare state\n	The social security system\n		Universal Credit: ubiquitous conditionality in social security?\n		Mandatory support for social security benefit claimants\n	Social housing\n	The management of antisocial behaviour\n		Conditional welfare interventions and vulnerable people\n	Conditionality in context: UK welfare reform since 2010, austerity, retrenchment and devolution\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\nTHREE Welfare conditionality and behaviour change\n	Theorising behaviour change\n	Understanding the agency and behaviour of social welfare recipients\n		The significance of discretion\n		The tools of behaviour change: carrots, sticks, sermons and nudges?\n	The effectiveness of welfare conditionality?\n		The effectiveness of welfare conditionality in tackling antisocial behaviour\n	Conclusions\nFOUR From welfare to work? The effectiveness of welfare conditionality in moving people into paid employment\n	Diverse trajectories: stasis, recycling and pathways into and out of work\n	The impact of welfare conditionality on work/welfare trajectories: sanctions, support and discretion\n		Poor support: mandatory work search and employment training\n	Dealing with difference: conditionality as a panacea for labour market inactivity\n	Universal Credit and ‘in-work’ conditionality: promoting employment progression?\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\nFIVE Welfare conditionality and problematic or antisocial behaviour\n	The efficacy of welfare conditionality in addressing antisocial behaviour among people with complex/multiple needs\n		The differential impact of family intervention policies\n	Compound conditionality\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\nSix Unintended outcomes? The wider impacts of compulsion and benefit sanctions in social security\n	The great UK sanctioning drive\n	Pernicious and punitive: the impacts of benefit sanctions\n	The compliant, the unable and the unwilling\n		Counterproductive compliance\n		Disengagement from social security\n	Conclusions\n	Notes\nSEVEN Ethical debates\n	Advocates and adversaries: ethical aspects of welfare conditionality\n	Questions of principle\n	Conditionality in practice: appropriate for all?\n		Lone parents\n		Disabled people\n	Conclusions\nEIGHT Conclusions\n	Closing comments\nMethods appendix\n	Introduction\n	A qualitative approach\n	Ethical considerations and data handling/analysis\n	Notes\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover