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Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime (2023)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2024). Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime. British Journal of Criminology, 64(4), 947-963. 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.