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SOCIAL POLICIES AND
SOCIAL CONTROL

New perspectives on the not-so-big
society

Edited by Malcolm Harrison and Teela Sanders

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 6th Floor Howard House Queens Avenue Clifton Bristol BS8 1SD UK Tel +44 (0)117 331 5020 Fax +44 (0)117 331 5367 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756

Policy Press 2014

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ISBN 9781447321019 ePUB

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The right of Malcolm Harrison and Teela Sanders to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

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The statements and opinions contained within this publication are solely those of the editors and contributors and not of the University of Bristol or Policy Press. The University of Bristol and Policy Press disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any material published in this publication.

Policy Press works to counter discrimination on grounds of gender, race, disability, age and sexuality.

Cover design by Andrew Corbett

Front cover illustration kindly supplied bt Steve Bell

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Contents

Malcolm Harrison and Teela Sanders

Malcolm Harrison with Laura Hemingway

Kate Brown

Ruth Patrick

Ala Sirriyeh

Andrew Wallace

Doug Martin

Gabrielle Mastin

Ana Manzano

Laura Davies

Mark Monaghan

Jenny McNeill

Teela Sanders

List of boxes and figures

Boxes

Figures

List of abbreviations

ARC	application registration card
ASBO	Anti-Social Behaviour Order
CCG	clinical commissioning group
DBD	donation after brain death
DCD	donation after circulatory death
DLA	Disability Living Allowance
DRR	Drug Rehabilitation Requirement
DTTO	Drug Treatment and Testing Order
EIA	Equality Impact Assessment
ESA	Employment and Support Allowance
EU	European Union
HLA	human leukocyte antigen
IB	Incapacity Beneft
JSA	Jobseekers Allowance
LHA	Local Housing Allowance
LINk	Local Involvement Network
NDC	New Deal for Communities
NEW-ADAM	New England and Wales Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring
PDU	problematic drug user
PIP	Personal Independence Payment
QCT	quasi-compulsory treatment
RSL	registered social landlord
SAT	standard assessment task
UK	United Kingdom
UKBA	United Kingdom Border Agency
UKDPC	United Kingdom Drug Policy Commission
VAT	Value Added Tax
VBS	Vetting and Barring Scheme
WCA	Work Capability Assessment
WRAG	work-related activity group

Preface and acknowledgements

This book breaks some new ground by discussing social control issues across a variety of social policy domains, against a backdrop of major welfare restructuring under the UK coalition government and its immediate predecessors. There have been considerable challenges for the authors in trying to grasp and interpret coalition plans and programmes that were developing at speed on numerous fronts, and were still being elaborated as chapters were completed. We hope that discussions contain relatively few misunderstandings on details, but if there are limitations then these may reflect the difficulties of hitting what was sometimes a moving target, alongside the inevitable implications of compression when describing complex situations. Chapter drafts were being finalised variously from late 2012 through to the early months of 2013, and editing and selective updating then followed.

As authors chose their own conceptual frameworks and lines of argument, there is considerable variety in approaches and foci. While some passages refer to overtly oppressive disciplinary practices, others touch upon milder persuasions such as the responsibilisation inherent in some user participation arrangements. We hope that diversity of styles and scope will help make the book interesting to a range of readers. Authors were invited to create one or more summary boxes within their chapters to give swift impressions of content or themes, but these complement rather than replace the main texts. As editors, we also encouraged contributors to include appropriate sources that supplemented conventional academic ones or their own research findings. Thus, newspaper and website commentaries and reports are sometimes referred to where offering suitable illustrations or highlighting recent situations. Individual authors take responsibility for their own chapters, although we have encouraged reference to some general themes.

We are grateful to the many people who have encouraged this enterprise. Valued support has come from the publishers and the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Leeds. The reviewers appointed by Policy Press provided numerous useful suggestions. On behalf of all the authors, we also want to thank friends, colleagues, partners and other family members who have assisted or made space for the writing. An endnote to mentions specific help generously given by Peter Dwyer, John Flint, Judy Nixon and Emma Wincup at an important stage.

We want to thank Steve Bell for permission to reproduce one of his cartoons on the cover of the book. Marx appears there transformed into Cameron, while the well-known aspiration associated with Marxian and socialistic thinking from each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs is superseded by a statement that neatly challenges the advocates of todays UK public policies. The cartoon is a brilliantly critical image for present times, not least in relation to social policies. Thanks also to Ray Harrison, for reminding us soon after the cartoon first appeared of how outstanding it was.

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