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Textbook 1997Latest editionwith the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.

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The Causes of Povertythe product of individual weakness or fecklessness. This is a pathological model of social causation, and it implies a policy response that focuses on individuals and seeks to change their attitudes or behaviour — as we shall see in Chapter 15, such policies have been developed in Britain and other advanced industrial countries.

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Gender and Povertyme and expenditure are matters of public knowledge and concern, and thus amenable to public scrutiny and measurement, households and family circumstances and obligations are private matters that cannot and should not be the focus of public research.

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Poverty in Europe and Beyondthin all countries, and this results in deprivation in relatively affluent countries and in severe deprivation in some less affluent ones when compared with wider international standards. We live in a profoundly unequal world in which the extreme poverty that leads to starvation and early death is unfortunately still quite common.

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Defining Povertythe heart of the task of understanding poverty. We must first know what poverty is before we can identify where and when it is occurring or attempt to measure it, and before we can begin to do anything to alleviate it.

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Households and Poverty Dynamicsthat it is individual people who are victims of deprivation and exclusion. Individual people experience poverty. However by and large individual people do not live all their lives as individuals — and even as individuals they do not remain in the same circumstances throughout their lives.

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Social Security Policypoverty can be traced back to the development of industrial society, so too can antipoverty policy. What such a historical review reveals is that throughout this period the major focus of antipoverty policy in Britain and all other industrial societies has been social security policy.

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poverty in Britain. Comprehensive and accessible, it deals with the problems of definition, measurement and distribution of poverty and analyses the full range of debates about its causes and its possible solution. It is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology, social work and related social sciences.