Thank you to the annonymous reviewers who helped improve this article and a special thank you to @profsharonwright.bsky.social who provided excellent feedback to earlier drafts of this paper.

4/4 The 'wedding of workfare and prisonfare' may have long-term negative impacts for young people. More research is needed to investigate why young people experience far higher benefit sanction rates, and why young men appear to be most affected.

3/4 and in retrospect. The findings suggest that the most common emotional response to multiple benefit sanctions was anger, and the most common behavioural response was alienation from employment support.

2/4 However, there is limited research which explores how young people make sense of benefit sanction experiences over time. This article demonstrates the value in utilising secondary qualitative data to understand how young people who experienced multiple benefit sanctions responded in real time...

1/4 Young people experience disproportionately high benefit sanction rates and young men are the group most likely to have a financial sanction applied to their UC claim. These unequal sanction rates are consistent across the UK over time. Research has highlighted this quantitative trend...

Afternoon is go and we have my colleague @thomasrochow.bsky.social presenting on a new @therobertsontrust.bsky.social funded project on the state of poverty with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and colleagues not on here

Welcome to Glasgow! Proud that you are open about these things ❤️

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