Introduction: The Violence of Austerity
Vickie Cooper and David Whyte
1. Mental Health and Suicide
Mary O’Hara
2. Austerity and Mortality
Danny Dorling
3. Welfare Reforms and the Attack on Disabled People
John Pring
4. The Violence of Workfare
Jon Burnett and David Whyte
5. The Multiple Forms of Violence in the Asylum System
Victoria Canning
6. The Degradation and Humiliation of Young People
Emma Bond and Simon Hallsworth
7. Child Maltreatment and Child Mortality
Joanna Mack
8. Hunger and Food Poverty
Rebecca O’Connell and Laura Hamilton
9. The Deadly Impact of Fuel Poverty
Ruth London
10. The Violence of the Debtfare State
David Ellis
11. Women of Colour’s Anti-Austerity Activism
Akwugo Emejulu and Leah Bassel
12. Dismantling the Irish Peace Process
Daniel Holder
13. Undoing Social Protection
Steve Tombs
14. Health and Safety at the Frontline of Austerity
Hilda Palmer and David Whyte
15. Environmental Degradation
Charlotte Burns and Paul Tobin
16. Fracking and State Violence
Will Jackson, Helen Monk and Joanna Gilmore
17. Domicide, Eviction and Repossession
Kirsteen Paton and Vickie Cooper
18. Austerity’s Impact on Rough Sleeping and Violence
Daniel McCulloch
19. Legalising the Violence of Austerity
Robert Knox
20. The Failure to Protect Women in the Criminal Justice System
Maureen Mansfield and Vickie Cooper
21. Austerity, Violence and Prisons
Joe Sim
22. Evicting Manchester’s Street Homeless
Steven Speed
23. Policing Anti-Austerity through the ‘War on Terror’
Rizwaan Sabir