LEADER 04635nam 22007335 450 001 9911054594203321 005 20260113120404.0 010 $a3-032-01741-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-01741-3 035 $a(CKB)44967120300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32486705 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32486705 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-01741-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9944967120300041 100 $a20260113d2026 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Politics of Prison Building Programmes $eBuilding Legacies and the State Capacity to Punish /$fby Thomas Guiney 205 $a1st ed. 2026. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2026. 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,$x2753-0612 311 08$a3-032-01740-8 327 $aIntroduction: The Politics of Prison Building Programmes -- Part I: The Opening Stages -- Politics -- Penal Policy -- Finance and Public Expenditure -- Part II: Design and Delivery. Architecture and Design -- Site Acquisition and Planning -- Construction and Handover -- Part III: Legacy Building -- Conclusion: The Impact of Prison Building -- Postscript: What Next for Prison Building?. 330 $aPrison building has moved from the margins to the mainstream of our penal politics. In recent years the UK Government has invested billions in new prison building and the main political parties are currently locked into a penal arms race over who can, and who will, build the most additional prison places in England and Wales. Prison building is now widely lauded as the definitive policy solution to the current prisons crisis and yet, this remains an elusive sphere of penal policymaking. Academic research remains in its infancy, and we still know very little about how these large investment decisions are made, by whom and for what reasons. In seeking to shine a light on this subterranean and largely closed sphere of contemporary penal policymaking, this book presents the first systematic study of prison building programmes in England and Wales since the mid-1990?s punitive turn. Drawing upon extensive archival research, 28 exploratory qualitative interviews, publicly recorded data, historic satellite imagery and other mapping techniques this book has three main aims: (1) to provide an authoritative historical account of prison building activity in England and Wales since the mid-1990s punitive turn, (2) to explain why successive governments have chosen to invest in new prison building programmes and (3) to reflect upon how the prisons we build - functionally, architecturally, geographically ? continue to shape our politics long after they have been constructed. Thomas Guiney is Assistant Professor of Criminology in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at University of Nottingham, UK. Tom has published widely on the politics of punishment and recently published an edited collection Parole Futures: Rationalities, Institutions and Practices with Hart Bloomsbury (Oņati International Series in Law and Society). Tom sits on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology and is a regular contributor to public debates on criminal justice. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,$x2753-0612 606 $aCorrections 606 $aPunishment 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aBuildings$xDesign and construction 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aHuman geography 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aPrison and Punishment 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aBuilding Construction and Design 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aHuman Geography 606 $aPolitics and Human Rights 615 0$aCorrections. 615 0$aPunishment. 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aBuildings$xDesign and construction. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aHuman geography. 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 14$aPrison and Punishment. 615 24$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aBuilding Construction and Design. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aHuman Geography. 615 24$aPolitics and Human Rights. 676 $a364.60941 700 $aGuiney$b Thomas$01889123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911054594203321 996 $aThe Politics of Prison Building Programmes$94529186 997 $aUNINA