Robins / Newman Justice in a Time of Austerity

Stories From a System in Crisis
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1314-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, ebook ePub (individual), Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

How are poverty and social inequality entrenched through a failing justice system?

In this important book, Jon Robins and Daniel Newman examine how the lives of people already struggling with problems with their welfare benefits, jobs, housing and immigration are made much harder by cuts to legal aid and the failings of our creaking justice system.

Over the course of 12 months, interviews were carried out on the ground in a range of settings with people as they were caught up in the justice system, in a range of settings such as foodbanks in a church hall in a wealthy part of London; a community centre in a former mining town; a homeless shelter for rough sleepers in Birmingham; and a destitution service for asylum seekers in a city on the South coast, as well as in courts and advice agencies up and down the country.

The authors argue that a failure to access justice all too often represents a catastrophic step in the life of the person concerned and their family.

This powerful, yet moving, account humanises the hostile political debates that surround legal aid and reveals what access to justice really means in Austerity Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robins, Jon

Newman, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Rechtswissenschaften Sozialrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Allgemeines Prozessrecht, Kostenrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Conveyor Belt Justice

In the Shadow of Grenfell

On the Streets

Christmas at the Foodbank

Meeting the Real ‘Daniel Blakes’

Caught in a Hostile Environment

Deserts and Droughts

Heading for Breakdown

Death by a Thousand Cuts

A Way Forward

Über Autor(innen)

Robins, Jon
Jon Robins is an award-winning freelance journalist, author and lecturer at Winchester University. He has written about justice issues for over 20 years for the Guardian, Times, Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday and Observer, as well as two books on miscarriages of justice. He is the founder of The Justice Gap Website: https://www.thejusticegap.com/author/jon-robins/

Newman, Daniel
Daniel Newman is Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. He has previously published 'Legal Aid Lawyers and the Quest for Justice' (Hart) and 'Justice in a Time of Austerity' (Bristol University Press).

Jon Robins is an award-winning freelance journalist, author and a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in the Department of Law and Criminology. He has written about justice issues for over 20 years for the Guardian, The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday and Observer, as well as two books on miscarriages of justice. He is the founder of The Justice Gap Website: https://www.thejusticegap.com/author/jon-robins/

Daniel Newman is Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. He researches and writes extensively on topics around access to justice, including on a bestselling book on the impact of legal aid cuts and numerous journal articles.