The permacrisis prison: Why the carceral state is too fast to learn and too cyclical to change
Published online on July 14, 2026
Abstract
Punishment & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article offers a new theoretical account of permacrisis as a governing rationale within the carceral state in England and Wales. Synthesising Virilio’s dromology with Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence, it reconceptualises crisis as a temporally ...
This article offers a new theoretical account of permacrisis as a governing rationale within the carceral state in England and Wales. Synthesising Virilio’s dromology with Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence, it reconceptualises crisis as a temporally ...