The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation
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Authors | Farrall, S., Jones, P. and Gray, E. |
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Abstract | 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 significant increase of prisons in the counties where the coal-mining industry was dismantled during the 1980s and 1990s. We identify former coal-mining areas based on the methodology used by Beatty and Fothergill (1996) and test if more prisons were opened in former coal-mining areas than non-coal-mining areas per capita post-closures. Using Poisson regression analyses and controlling for population changes, we found that coal-mining counties were significantly more likely to acquire a new prison between 1981 and 2001 than those areas who were not affected by de-industrialisation. We apply Derrida’s thinking on hauntology to reexamine the spatial legacy of Thatcherism in these communities as a means to understand history and culture, and the unraveling of the past, present and future. |
Keywords | Thatcherism; Geography; Prisons; Prison Building; Politics; Neoliberalism; Hauntology |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | European Journal of Criminology |
Publisher | SAGE Journals |
ISSN | 1477-3708 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221115159 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14773708221115159 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 24 Aug 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 30 Jun 2022 |
Deposited | 25 Aug 2022 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/975x5/the-spatial-and-temporal-development-of-british-prisons-from-1901-to-the-present-the-role-of-de-industrialisation
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