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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
Farrall, S., Gray, E., & Jones, P. M. (2022). Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221126667

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
Barry, M., Farrall, S., & France, A. (2022). Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice. Kriminologisches Journal, 3/2022, 181-198. https://doi.org/10.3262/KJ2203181

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
Jones, P. M., Gray, E., & Farrall, S. (2024). The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation. European Journal of Criminology, 21(1), 140-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221115159

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.