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Staines, Z., Marston, G., Bielefeld, S., Humpage, L., Mendes, P. & Peterie, M. (2020). Governing Poverty: Compulsory Income Management and Crime. Critical Criminology, Online First 1-17.
Abstract
Welfare reforms have swept across most liberal-democratic nations over recent decades, carried by a deep neoliberal faith in market rationality and an intensive focus on the individual as a key site of disciplinary intervention. These reforms have been accompanied by discourses within which welfare, deviance and crime are interwoven tightly. Australia s Income Management (IM) policies, which quarantine a portion of welfare income as a means of behavioral conditionality, provide an example of welfare policy that has been promoted as a way of reducing crime. In this article, we interrogate these claims. We find little support for the policy logic linking IM and crime, and we demonstrate that there is no clear evidence that IM has reduced crime. Instead, we argue that t
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