Weaponising time in the war on welfare

Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11432115
AutoresChina Mills (0000-0003-0615-234X, City, University of London, autor correspondente), John Pring (0000-0001-9718-8641, Disability News Service, UK)
Ano2024
Volume44
Fascículo1
Páginas129-149
Data de publicação2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-0183 • E-ISSN: 1461-703X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02610183231187588
OpenAlexW4385286773
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas27

In 2014, a long continuing battle began to find out more about Government record-keeping on the deaths of disabled people claiming benefits. Drawing on a timeline of evidence co-produced with disabled people, we analyse how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence, where both the delay between policies and their harmful effects, as well as the more active use of delay tactics, are central to how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) weaponise time as a strategy to avoid accountability and deny justice. DWP reviews into deaths are an under-researched yet significant focus because they are (supposedly) tools through which the DWP investigates the harms of its own policies, and yet, they are designed and carried out in a way that systemically invisibilise state accountability

Accountability · Battle · Economic Justice · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Public relations · Social security · Timeline · Welfare · Welfare system · Work (physics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration