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Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2022). Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party. British Journal of Criminology, 62(5), 1158-1174. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac031

Recent scholarship has underscored the limitations of a theoretical repertoire that reduces the politics of punishment to debates over punitiveness, neoliberalism or penal exceptionalism. In this paper I argue that greater understanding of the dynami... Read More about Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party.

Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Annison, H., & Guiney, T. (2022). Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales. Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13170

Reform of the parole system has emerged as the cause célèbre of a resurgent law and order politics. Successive governments have seized upon the symbolic power of parole to demonstrate ‘toughness’ with respect to violent and sexual offending, to expre... Read More about Populism, Conservatism and the Politics of Parole in England and Wales.

Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. C. (2023). Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release. Punishment and Society, 25(3), 621-640. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221097371

The decision to release is a defining feature of the carceral experience: at once a necessary function of a dynamic penal system, and a highly contested form of symbolic communication where the anxieties and contradictions of contemporary penality be... Read More about Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release.

Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference (2022)
Journal Article
Guiney, T., & Farrall, S. (2023). Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference. Theoretical Criminology, 27(1), 147-164. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221081504

In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal... Read More about Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference.