Social Housing, Antisocial Behaviour and Risk: The Challenges of UK Disability Equality Law - Hardcover

Roberts, Leigh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 139954036X ISBN 13: 9781399540360

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 139954036X
• ISBN 13: 9781399540360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232