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Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime (2023)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2023). Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime. British Journal of Criminology, Article azad075. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad075

Political parties occupy a contradictory position in the criminological literature: at once active participants in the political contestation of crime but virtually absent from contemporary debates concerning the relationship between crime and democr... Read More about Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime.

Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article
Guiney, T., & Yeomans, H. (2023). Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(1), 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12507

This article seeks to explain the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales. Building upon recent theoretical work on path dependence, we identify prison population forecasting as a poorly understood positive feedback mechanism tha... Read More about Explaining penal momentum: Path dependence, prison population forecasting and the persistence of high incarceration rates in England and Wales.

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Annison, H., & Guiney, T. (2022). Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales. Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13170

Reform of the parole system has emerged as the cause célèbre of a resurgent law and order politics. Successive governments have seized upon the symbolic power of parole to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with respect to violent and sexual offending, to expre... Read More about Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales.

Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. C. (2023). Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release. Punishment and Society, 25(3), 621-640. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221097371

The decision to release is a defining feature of the carceral experience: at once a necessary function of a dynamic penal system, and a highly contested form of symbolic communication where the anxieties and contradictions of contemporary penality be... Read More about Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release.

Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T., & Farrall, S. (2023). Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference. Theoretical Criminology, 27(1), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221081504

In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal... Read More about Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference.

Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales (2019)
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Guiney, T. (2019). Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales. European Journal of Probation, 11(3), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220319895802

Prisoner release has emerged as a key site of penal policy contestation in England and Wales. A series of crises have undermined public confidence in the parole system and reopened longstanding debates over the confused normative basis of prisoner re... Read More about Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales.

Solid Foundations? Towards a Historical Sociology of Prison Building Programmes in England and Wales, 1959–2015 (2019)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2019). Solid Foundations? Towards a Historical Sociology of Prison Building Programmes in England and Wales, 1959–2015. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 58(4), 459-476. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12334

Between 1959 and 2015 the UK government embarked upon five major phases of prison building in England and Wales. Drawing upon detailed archival research, this article offers a historical sociology of prison building programmes. It traces the evolutio... Read More about Solid Foundations? Towards a Historical Sociology of Prison Building Programmes in England and Wales, 1959–2015.

Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change (2018)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2020). Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(1), 76-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818810333

This article makes the case for greater use of systematic archival research as a methodological tool of criminology. Drawing upon insights from the author’s 2018 historical study of ‘early release’ in England and Wales, it reviews the legal framework... Read More about Excavating the archive: Reflections on a historical criminology of government, penal policy and criminal justice change.

Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995 (2018)
Book
Guiney, T. (2018). Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995. Oxford University Press (OUP)

Getting Out offers the first systematic account of the evolution of early release as a public policy concern in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. At a time when public discourse on crime has focused, to a significant degree, upon the powers of... Read More about Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995.

Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995 (2018)
Book
Guiney, T. (2018). Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803683.001.0001

Getting Out explores the evolution of early release in England and Wales between 1960 and 1995. In the past three decades crime has become a highly contested political issue with implications for the humanity, fairness, and effectiveness of the crimi... Read More about Getting Out: Early Release in England and Wales, 1960 - 1995.