Scrounger narratives and dependent drug users
Welfare, workfare and warfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12937753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emma Wincup (0000-0001-5243-073X, University of Leeds, corresponding author), Mark Monaghan (0000-0002-8650-6314, Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-275 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-8273 • E-ISSN: 1759-8281 |
| Publisher | Policy Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/175982716x14721954315084 |
| OpenAlex | W2547401440 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
Since 2008 political and media attention has focused on the allegedly problematic behaviour of drug users who ‘choose’ to pursue their ‘habit’ at the expense of the hardworking taxpayer. This forms part of the ‘new welfare commonsense’, which censures welfare dependency and stigmatises drug users as ‘undeserving’ claimants, entrenching the ‘war on drug user’ discourse. This article makes a significant contribution to recognising that stigma is a substantial barrier to recovery. It identifies ways of challenging the ‘scrounger’ narrative as applied to drug users through more informed media reporting and less coercive approaches to address drug and welfare dependency
Criminology · Dependency (UML · Drug · Drug user · Economics · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Public economics · Stigma (botany · Taxpayer · Welfare · Welfare dependency · Workfare · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology
Representation of adverse childhood experiences is associated with lower public stigma towards people who use drugs
‘Zombies’, ‘cannibals’, and ‘super humans’
The stigma-vulnerability nexus and the framing of drug problems
Moral disengagement and the harms of cocaine use
What Can Welfare Stigma Do
Producing the vulnerable subject in English drug policy
Making sense of drug use and dependence—A scoping review of mass media interventions intended to reduce stigma towards people who use drugs
Coproducing recovery with people affected by substance use and criminalization
Stigma
Clear rhetoric and blurred reality
Thoroughfares, crossroads and cul-de-sacs
Beyond 'mythbusting
Living with and responding to the 'scrounger' narrative in the UK
Telling stories of 21st century welfare
Navigating the stigmatised identities of poverty in austere times
Policies and discourses of poverty during a time of recession and austerity
Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy
Social Security Policy and Vindictiveness
The stigma of claiming benefits
Working on Welfare
Remembering and Rethinking the Social Divisions of Welfare
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |