REDMAN, Jamie (2019). The benefit sanction: a correctional device or a weapon of disgust? Sociological Research Online.
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Abstract
The benefit sanction is a dominant activation policy in Britain’s ‘welfare-to-work’ regime. While policymakers believe in their necessity to correct behaviour, research shows benefit sanctions cause additional harm to Britain’s marginalised groups. Drawing upon a small-scale qualitative study, this article first navigates new territory, mapping the ways stigma emerges from the state – channelled through the benefit sanction – and manifests in the lives of sanctioned claimants. Acknowledging wider evidence, the sanction is then argued to have failed as a correctional device. Rather, taking into account Britain’s current politico-economic climate, the sanction appears as a weapon used to incite negative emotion in an attempt to police the boundaries of the labour market, while frequently abandoning some of the UK’s most vulnerable citizens.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Sociology; 1608 Sociology |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419851132 |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic Elements |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Elements |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2019 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 05:10 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/24676 |
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