This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice.

Editor's introduction ~ Peter Dwyer Supporting people? Universal Credit, conditionality and the recalibration of vulnerability ~ Helen Stinson Punishment, powerlessness and bounded agency: exploring the role of welfare conditionality with `at risk’ women attempting to live `a good life’ ~ Larissa Povey Resisting welfare conditionality: constraint, choice and dissent among homeless migrants ~ Regina Serpa No strings attached? An exploration of employment support services offered by third sector homelessness organisations ~ Katy Jones Exploring the impact of welfare conditionality on Roma migrants in the UK ~ Liviu Dinu and Lisa Scullion Exploring the behavioural outcomes of family-based intensive interventions ~ Emily Ball Editor’s afterword ~ Peter Dwyer

Offers a unique account of how conditional welfare policies are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users subject to conditional welfare interventions and services;

Each individual chapter presents a new empirical analysis of data generated in a series of original and distinct qualitative research projects that are exploring the implementation and effects of welfare conditionality. The fieldwork has been conducted with both practitioners and also welfare service users;

Showcasing the work of next wave academics, overseen by a very experienced author and editor.