Sanctioning welfare clients has become a fundamental practice for social policy based on behavioural conditionality. Although sanctioning practices have received attention in research focused on street-level work, the way in which sanctioning practices are structured in an institutional context and used by caseworkers should be explored further. This study examines the implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Polish social welfare offices, based on interviews with social workers and case studies conducted between 2019 and 2021. A research framework based on the street-level work concept was used to indicate that sanctions were rarely used by social workers because of the administrative justification process, which overwhelmed them with the responsibility of proving sanction-worthy circumstances. Catalogues of sanction-worthy situations are developed by local-level policy agents, social workers, welfare office managers, municipal courts and clients. However, generally, social workers adapt to the given context by disciplining clients informally and avoiding formal sanctions.

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不制裁福利客户的理由：社会工作者在波兰实施“资源浪费”制裁指令

制裁福利客户已成为基于行为条件的社会政策的基本实践。尽管制裁实践在以街头工作为重点的研究中受到关注，但应进一步探索制裁实践在制度环境中的结构以及案例工作者使用的方式。本研究基于对社会工作者的访谈和 2019 年至 2021 年间进行的案例研究，调查了波兰社会福利办公室对“资源浪费”制裁指令的实施情况。基于街道工作概念的研究框架被用来表明这种制裁很少被社会工作者使用，因为行政证明程序让他们承担了证明值得制裁的情况的责任。值得制裁的情况目录由地方一级的政策代理人、社会工作者、福利办公室经理、市法院和客户制定。然而，一般来说，社会工作者通过非正式地管教案主并避免正式制裁来适应给定的环境。