Abstract
•Current welfare systems are coming under significant critique, not least for ‘cruelty’ to service users
•Abuse and cruelty in previous welfare systems have been at significant cost to individuals and nations
•Historical welfare policies provide useful evidence of how systems designed to care can become cruel
•Abuse by caring institutions is not just a problem of ‘isolated perpetrators’, but is enabled by the ideologies around, investments in, and management of welfare systems
•Abuse and cruelty in previous welfare systems have been at significant cost to individuals and nations
•Historical welfare policies provide useful evidence of how systems designed to care can become cruel
•Abuse by caring institutions is not just a problem of ‘isolated perpetrators’, but is enabled by the ideologies around, investments in, and management of welfare systems
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | History & Policy |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2018 |