Phil Mike Jones
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation
Jones, Phil Mike; Gray, Emily; Farrall, Stephen
Abstract
This paper combines archival data and statistical analysis to investigate the context-specific ways that prisons expanded and affected communities in the UK, focusing closely on the role of the UK's political economy. We present evidence of a significant increase of prisons in the counties where the coal-mining industry was dismantled during the 1980s and 1990s. We identify former coal-mining areas based on Coal Mining Reporting Areas and the methodology used by Beatty and Fothergill (1996) and test if more prisons were opened in former coal-mining areas than non-coal-mining areas per capita post-closures. Using Poisson regression analyses and controlling for population changes, we found that coal-mining counties were significantly more likely to acquire a new prison between 1981 and 2001 than those areas which were not affected by de-industrialisation. We apply Derrida's thinking on hauntology to reexamine the spatial legacy of Thatcherism in these communities as a means to understand history and culture, and the unraveling of the past, present, and future.
Citation
Jones, P. M., Gray, E., & Farrall, S. (2022). The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221115159
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 30, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 24, 2022 |
Publication Date | Aug 24, 2022 |
Deposit Date | Jul 1, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 24, 2022 |
Journal | European Journal of Criminology |
Print ISSN | 1477-3708 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-2609 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221115159 |
Keywords | Thatcherism; Geography; Prisons; Prison Building; Politics; Neoliberalism; Hauntology |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/8770734 |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14773708221115159 |
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