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Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article

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

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.