Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures and CHAIDS; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Measuring poverty: Breadline Britain in the 1990s; Chapter 2 The poverty line: methodology and international comparisons; Chapter 3 The public's perception of necessities and poverty; Chapter 4 Poverty and gender; Chapter 5 Poverty and crime; Chapter 6 Poverty and health; Chapter 7 Poverty and mental health; Chapter 8 Poverty, debt and benefits; Chapter 9 Poverty and local public services
Chapter 10 Adapting the consensual definition of povertyChapter 11 Conclusions and Summary; Bibliography; Appendix I: Technical appendix; Appendix II: Annotated questionnaire; Appendix III: Additional tables
Summary
First published in 1997, this series, published in association with the Social Policy Research Unity at the University of York, is designed to inform public debate about these policy areas and to make the details of important policy-related research more widely available
