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Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers (2022)
Journal Article

Criminal careers research is one of the largest fields of research in modern criminology. However, it has almost exclusively focussed on individual-level explanations of onset, maintenance and desistance. In this article, and in part inspired by rece... Read More about Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers.

Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice (2022)
Journal Article

The growing influence of neo-liberalism in crime policy and practice has resulted in the responsibilization of individuals: criminality and risk tend now to be seen as operating at the individual level, rather than the structural level. Individuals a... Read More about Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice.

The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation (2022)
Journal Article

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 signifi... Read More about The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation.