| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 238 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the violence of austerity / Vickie Cooper and David Whyte -- part I. Deadly welfare -- Mental health and suicide / Mary O'Hara -- Austerity and mortality / Danny Dorling -- Welfare reforms and the attack on disabled people / John Pring -- The violence of workfare / Jon Burnett and David Whyte -- The multiple forms of violence in the asylum system / Victoria Canning -- The degradation and humiliation of young people / Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth -- part II. Poverty amplification -- Child maltreatment and child mortality / Joanna Mack -- Hunger and food poverty / Rebecca O'Connell and Laura Hamilton -- The deadly impact of fuel poverty / Ruth London -- The violence of the debtfare state / David Ellis -- Women of colour's anti-austerity activism / Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel -- Dismantling the Irish peace process / Daniel Holder -- part III. State regulation -- Undoing social protection / Steve Tombs -- Health and safety at the frontlist of austerity / Hilda Palmer and David Whyte -- Environmental degradation / Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin -- Fracking and state violence / Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore -- Domicide, eviction and repossession / Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper -- Austerity's impact on rough sleeping and violence / Daniel McCulloch -- part IV. State control -- Legalising the violence of austerity / Robert Knox -- The failure to protect women in the criminal justice system / Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper -- Austerity, violence and prisons / Joe Sim -- Evicting Manchester's street homeless / Steven Speed -- Policing anti-austerity through the 'War on Terror' / Rizwaan Sabir -- Austerity and the production of hate / Jon Burnett. |
| Summary |
An edited collection which explores the different facets of how austerity in Britain is a form of institutional violence. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Great Britain. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Economic conditions. |
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Great Britain -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Financial crises -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
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Financial crises -- Government policy. |
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Financial crises. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cooper, Vickie (Lecturer in criminology), editor.
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Whyte, David, 1968- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Violence of Austerity. [Place of publication not identified] : Pluto Pr 2017 9780745399485 (OCoLC)957507909 |
| ISBN |
9781786800626 (PDF eBook) |
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1786800624 (PDF eBook) |
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9781786800640 (Kindle eBook) |
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1786800640 (Kindle eBook) |
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9781786800633 (EPUB eBook) |
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1786800632 (EPUB eBook) |
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9780745399485 (paperback) |
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0745399487 (paperback) |
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9780745337463 (hardback) |
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0745337465 (hardback) |
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