Social Housing, Antisocial Behaviour and Risk

The Challenges of UK Disability Equality Law

Leigh Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4036-0 (ISBN)

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Examines ASB, social housing and disability equality policy as well as ASB case law where disability challenges have been raised.

The recommendations for policy are reform of equalities legislation, better support for individual perpetrators and measures to improve relations between social landlords and medico-welfare agencies involved in ASB control. This book presents an analysis of relevant developments in antisocial behaviour (ASB), social housing and disability equality law and policy. Using an empirical study of social landlord organisations, which includes detailed analysis of case files, a review of their policies, as well as focus groups and interviews with managers and officers, it shows how housing professionals operate in this framework. This analysis provides an in-depth account of how housing professionals make medical, moral and risk-based judgements and assessments of perpetrators they know or suspect to have mental health or learning difficulties. It explains how these factors inform the process of managing complaints about ASB arguing that they lead to different outcomes for occupants of social housing. The importance of the book relates to housing officers’ constructions of disability and their potentially discriminatory consequences: officers’ minimal compliance with equality law or extraordinary treatment may correspondingly result in social exclusion or inclusion.

Leigh Roberts is a Legal Advisor and was awarded a PhD in Law from the University of York in 2020.

Acknowledgements

Introduction and Conceptual Overview

1. Social Housing, Disability and ASB

2. ASB Governance and the Legal Framework: Rights at the Margins of Society

3. ASB Governance and Knowledge: Evidence and the Social Construction of Disability in the Context of ASB

4. ASB Governance and Disability as a Moral Issue: The Moral Filter

5. Risk Management in ASB Governance

6. ASB Governance, Accountability and the Management of Risk in Litigation

7. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2025
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-3995-4036-X / 139954036X
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4036-0 / 9781399540360
Zustand	Neuware