Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Social Policy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu19
Book Review: Ashley J. Bohrer Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism19
Book Review: People Before Profit: The Future of Social Care in Scotland by Social Work Action Network (SWAN) & the Jimmy Reid Foundation15
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie14
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate12
Book Review: Families and Food in Hard Times: European Comparative Research by Rebecca O’Connell and Julia Brannen12
Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham12
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas11
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise10
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice10
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England10
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane9
Book Review: Histories of Punishment and Social Control in Ireland: Perspectives from the Periphery by Lynsey Black, Louise Brangan and Deirdre Healy8
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann8
The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA8
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales7
Book Review: Homes in Crisis Capitalism by Marnie Holborow7
Young people's schooling trajectories and transitions to social adulthood in the context of Brazil's Bolsa Família6
Visibilising the climate in social policies in Barcelona: Connections in the urban context6
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England6
Book Review: The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay6
Body-worn cameras, police violence and the politics of evidence: A case of ontological gerrymandering6
Book Review: Ray Jones A History of the Personal Social Services in England: Feast, Famine and the Future6
Book Review: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher6
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden5
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies5
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States5
Book Review: Thinking Collectively. Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good by Paul Spicker5
Book Review: Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics by Richard C. Fording and Sanford F. Schram5
Environmental racism, segregation and discrimination: Gypsy and Traveller sites in Great Britain5
The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden5
Book Review: Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Joanna Cook5
‘Doing’ eligibility through income thresholds: Organisational practices in US financial assistance programmes for women with breast cancer4
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data4
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice4
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system3
Book Review: Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement by Peter Beresford3
Book Review: Welfare and Punishment: From Thatcherism to Austerity by Ian Cummins3
Book Review: Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward (eds.) Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State3
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire3
Book Review: Rory Hearne Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve it3
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand3
Discipline2
Diminishing returns of growth? Economic performance, needs satisfaction and ecological impacts of OECD welfare states2
Book Review: Facts, Values and the Policy World by Phil Ryan2
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland2
Housing and temporary legality: The evictability and settlement of refugees in Swedish municipalities2
Operationalising intersectionality in equality and domestic abuse policy in Scotland: Contradictions, contestations and erasure2
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant2
Book Review: Noncitizen Power: Agency and the Politics of Migration by Tendayi Bloom2
The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya2
Banishment2
Book Review: On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite2
Book Review: Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke by Umut Özkirimli2
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support2
Book Review: Racism and the Tory Party: From Disraeli to Johnson by Mike Cole1
Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services1
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson1
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali1
Running, eyes open, into segregation:The absence of an integration strategy for Britain's elites1
Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy1
Encountering the hostile environment: Recently arrived Afghan migrants in London1
Book Review: Timo Harrikari and Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala Towards Glocal Social Work in the Era of Compressed Modernity1
Book Review: Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti (eds) The Rise of Food Charity in Europe1
Book Review: The Politics of Ailment: A New Approach to Care by Minna Zechner, Lena Näre, Olli Karsio, Antero Olakivi, Liina Sointu, Hanna-Kaisa Hoppania and Tiina Vaittinen1
Book Review: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton1
Stigmatised and stressed: UK cannabis patients living in the context of prohibition1
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent1
Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics1
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson1
Book Review: Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres and Alistair Hunter1
Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment0
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions0
Austerity alive and well in Wales and UBI in intensive care0
Welfare governance0
Book Review: Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer0
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop0
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state0
Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Social solidarity and deservingness0
A critical overview of how English health and social care publications represent autistic adults’ intimate lives0
Book Review: Errors and Mistakes in Child Protection: International Discourses, Approaches and Strategies by Kay Biesel, Judith Masson, Nigel Parton and Tarja Poso0
Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickard-Smith (eds)0
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage0
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalungi0
Book Review: Uncertain Citizenship: Life in the Waiting Room by Anne-Marie Fortier0
Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – A study of unemployed workers’ experiences of displacement in Finland0
Book Review: Global Domestic Workers: Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights by Sabrina Marchetti, Daniela Cherubini and Giulia Garofano Geymonat0
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett0
Book Review: Critical Perspectives on Children’s Social Services Reform by Robin Sen and Christian Kerr (eds)0
The national and moral borders of the 2016 French law on sex work: An analysis of the ‘prostitution exit programme’0
Problem-solving for problem-solving: Data analytics to identify families for service intervention0
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?0
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme0
Book Review: Chiara Saraceno, David Benassi and Enrica Morlicchio Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective0
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances0
Multiple barriers to the Dutch welfare state. Black Feminists’ intersectional claims to social citizenship in the 1980s0
Book Review: Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis by Fiona Williams0
Citizenship0
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development0
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler0
Book Review: Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare by Martin Powell0
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state0
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy0
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field0
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response0
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland0
Book Review: Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James M. Smith and Mari Steed0
The importance of investing in policies beyond ‘the basics': Perspectives from black fathers in Philadelphia on how to increase community safety0
Book Review: Gurnham Singh and Shepard Masocha (ed.) Anti-Racist Social Work: International Perspectives0
Book Review: Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin (eds)0
Book Review: Teresa Sacchet, Silvana Mariano and Cássia Maria Carloto (eds.) Women, Gender and Conditional Cash Transfers: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Studies of Bolsa Família0
Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain0
Book Review: Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness by Shona Hunter and Christi van der Westhuizen (eds)0
Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy by Ian Greer, Charles Umney0
Book Review: Lucy Mayblin Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence0
Book Review: Negotiating Families and Personal Lives in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity, Social Change, and Inequalities by Sheila Quaid, Catriona Hugman and Angela Wilcock (eds)0
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment0
‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income0
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany0
Can mandatory work in activation programmes be meaningful work?0
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China0
The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design0
Protecting difference: A discussion on transphobic and homophobic hate crime in the Irish context0
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy0
Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England0
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration0
Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne0
Book Review: Hidden Voices Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space by Joe Whelan0
Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden0
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act0
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK's free school meal debates0
Book Review: Three Roads to the Welfare State by Bryan Fanning0
Book Review: End of Social Work – A Defence of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation by Steve Burghardt0
An interdisciplinary examination of a gunshot detection system: The public health context of a policing technology0
Pregnant racialised migrants and the ubiquitous border: The hostile environment as a technology of stratified reproduction0
Barriers to safe and secure housing in the US section 8 voucher programme post-Dobbs0
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso0
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID0
Book Review: Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions by Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie (eds)0
‘It's not really Michael who wears me out, it's the system’: The hidden work of coordinating care for a disabled child0
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground0
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments0
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme0
Book Review: Social Suffering in the Neoliberal Age: State Power, Logics and Resistance by Karen Soldatic and Louise St. Guillaume (eds)0
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power0
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?0
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States0
Book Review: Care Homes in a Turbulent Era Do They Have a Future? by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds)0
Female dependents, individual customers and promiscuous digital personas: The multiple governing of women through the Australian social security couple rule0
Book Review: The Case for a Four Day Week by Anna Coote, Aidan Harper and Alfie Stirling0
Book Review: Outlanders: Hidden Narratives from Social Workers of Colour from Black and Other Global Majority Communities by Wayne Reid and Siobhan Maclean (eds)0
Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on contracting social services in China0
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives0
South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance0
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today0
Sharing ‘hostile’ stories: Exploring the UK's ‘hostile environment’ through participatory arts-based methods0
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada0
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour0
Book Review: The Reformation of Welfare: The New Faith of the Labour Market by Tom Boland and Ray Griffin0
Hewers of wood and drawers of water: English subaltern education from the charity schools to the neoliberal meritocracy of widening participation0
Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia's retail industry0
Book Review: Psycho-Social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence. Un-Housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments by Christopher Scanlon and John Adlam0
Book Review: Class and Everyday Life by Kirsteen Paton0
Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK0
Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus0
Book Review: Childcare Provision in Neoliberal Times: The marketization of Care by Aisling Gallagher0
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality0
Corrigendum to “Eco-social policies, capitalism and the horizon of emancipatory politics”0
Maintaining gender inequality in wages? The case of employer organisations’ and business advocacy groups’ resistance to pay transparency legislation in Finland0
Book Review: Research Handbook on Intersectionality by Mary Romero (ed.)0
Facing the folk devils of modern slavery policy0
Book Review: Africentric Social Work by Delores V. Mullings, Jennifer Clarke, Wanda Thomas Bernard, David Este and Sulaimon Giwa0
Book Review: The Anti-Racist Social Worker: Stories of Activism by Social Care Professionals and Allied Health Professionals by Tanya Moore and Glory Simango0
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities0
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth0
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett0
Governing resettlement: Interrogating tensions and contradictions around age, vulnerability, and integrate-ability in the Irish context0
It Shouldn't Happen Here: Colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign0
Commodification and care: An exploration of workforces’ experiences of care in private and public childcare systems from a feminist political theory of care perspective0
Suffering and harm in insecurity welfare regimes: Conflict and the nexus of formal and informal welfare in Pakistan0
Book Review: Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum by Jonathan Darling0
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness0
The business of universities: A case study of halls of residence0
Book Review: James Rees, Marco Pomati and Elke Heins (eds) Social Policy Review 320
Book Review: A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, Negation by Werner Bonefeld0
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett0
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-190
ERRATUM to “Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK’s hostile environment policies”0
Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies0
Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited0
Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines: Reassessing a celebrated case of social protection0
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace0
Book Review: Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work by Melinda Madew, Marcin Boryczko and Mark Lusk (eds)0
Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited: Postscript0
Forum theatre practice as lived activism0
Book Review: Uncovering Food Poverty in Ireland: A Hidden Deprivation by Michael Drew0
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education0
Suspicion and surveillance0
COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Ireland's healthcare students0
An analysis of minoritisation in domestic homicide reviews in England and Wales0
Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction0
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak0
Book Review: Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial Power by Kevin Ryan0
Book Review: Social Work and Common Sense: A Critical Examination by Paul Michael Garrett0
Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited0
The welfare state0
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch0
Book Review: Redress: Ireland's institutions and Transitional Justice by Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke and James M Smith (eds.)0
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent0
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