The Politics of Prison Building Programmes: Building Legacies and the State Capacity to Punish

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Thomas Guiney

The Politics of Prison Building Programmes

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Building Legacies and the State Capacity to Punish

Thomas Guiney

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Palgrave Macmillan
14 January 2026

Sociology; Penology & punishment; Politics & government; Public administration; Building construction & materials

Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

Prison 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.

By: Thomas Guiney
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783032017406
ISBN 10: 3032017408
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 14 January 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 (Oñati 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.