RT Article T1 The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation JF European journal of criminology VO 21 IS 1 SP 140 OP 159 A1 Jones, Phil Mike A2 Gray, Emily 1974- A2 Farrall, Stephen 1969- LA English YR 2024 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1894912071 AB 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 Coal Mining Reporting Areas and 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 which 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. K1 Thatcherism K1 Geography K1 hauntology K1 Neoliberalism K1 Politics K1 prison building K1 Prisons DO 10.1177/14773708221115159