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March 31, 2026The British Journal of Criminology

The shifting worlds of welfare surveillance and the consolidation of criminalizing logics

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BSBenjamin SchwarzRJRikke Frank Jørgensen

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This article examines shifts in welfare eligibility assessments, revealing implications for societal control dynamics.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how changes in welfare surveillance impact the nature of control and eligibility assessments.
  • Conducted interviews and observations in municipalities
  • Investigated central payment authority practices
  • Applied the Pragmatic Sociology of Critique framework to analyze findings
  • Highlighted the shift from face-to-face practices to remote assessments
  • Demonstrated the role of municipal control tests in generating controversy
  • Revealed how reconfigured control tests foster criminalizing logics in welfare administration

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Schwarz et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69cb6541e6a8c024954b9573https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azag025
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