Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment? Benefit Sanctions in the UK /

• Main Author: Adler, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
• Subjects: Human rights.; Criminology.; Social justice.; Welfare state.; Social work.; Human Rights and Crime .; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Human Rights.; Social Work.

The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms 'cruel', 'inhuman' and 'degrading' that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; ben...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Benefit Sanctions as a Matter of Public Concern
• 3. The Historical Development of Benefit Sanctions in the UK
• 4. Changes in the Scope, Severity and Incidence of Benefit Sanctions
• 5. Conditionality and the Changing Relationship Between the Citizen and the State
• 6. The Impact and Effectiveness of Benefit Sanctions
• 7. Benefit Sanctions and Administrative Justice
• 8. The Role of Law in Protecting the Right to a Social Minimum
• 9. A Comparison of Benefit Sanctions with Court Fines
• 10. Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law
• 11. What, if Anything, Can be Done About Benefit Sanctions?
• 12 Conclusion. .