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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.