Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. 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: Ashley J. Bohrer Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism19
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu19
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
Book Review: Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly, Rights by Emily Grabham12
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
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas11
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England10
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise10
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice10
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane9
The respect for marriage act: The connection between marriage equality, abortion rights, and religious freedom in the USA8
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
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
Book Review: Making a Mindful Nation: Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Joanna Cook5
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
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice4
‘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
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
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
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support2
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
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