Recent extensive reforms to the welfare system and concurrent reduction in the provision of free legal advice have had a major impact on the meaning of social citizenship. This article examines this changed meaning, drawing mainly on the findings of a study funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission into the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. The study provides evidence of the interrelationship between civil and social rights, and of how the changes to legal advice provision have had a negative impact on the ability of citizens to establish or enforce welfare rights. The effect is a perception that the state is failing to uphold its end of a reciprocal bargain with its citizens. We argue that limited reciprocity and inclusion, along with distrust in the system, have profound implications for social and civil rights, undermine the state's political legitimacy, and are causing the dismantling of social citizenship.

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“穷人的权利呢？” 通过司法救助和福利改革政策瓦解社会公民身份

最近对福利制度的广泛改革和同时减少免费法律咨询的提供对社会公民的意义产生了重大影响。本文主要借鉴了平等与人权委员会资助的一项关于 2012 年《法律援助、量刑和惩罚罪犯法》的影响的研究结果，研究了这种变化的含义。该研究提供了民事和社会之间相互关系的证据权利，以及法律咨询条款的变化如何对公民建立或执行福利权利的能力产生负面影响。其结果是一种看法，即国家未能坚持与公民进行互惠交易的目的。我们认为，有限的互惠和包容，以及对系统的不信任，