The concept of ‘dragonisation’ was the first authoritative attempt to engage with criminal justice policy in post-devolution Wales. Its central claim, that devolution created the space and conditions for progressive justice policy to flourish in Wales while remaining part of the unitary England and Wales jurisdiction, remains largely unchallenged more than a decade since it first entered Welsh criminological vocabulary. By reviewing policy developments and drawing upon empirical research, this article revisits dragonisation to assess the extent to which Welsh policy has continued to diverge from England since the formative years of devolution. The arguments presented here contribute to emerging discussions over the future of criminal justice policy in Wales and form part of a wider criminological research agenda aimed at producing fine-grained territorial analyses of criminal justice practices, including differences within the same jurisdiction.

“龙化”的概念是在权力下放后的威尔士从事刑事司法政策的首次权威性尝试。它的主要主张是，权力下放为逐步发展的正义政策在威尔士繁荣发展而仍然是统一的英格兰和威尔士管辖权的一部分创造了空间和条件，自它首次进入威尔士犯罪学词汇以来，十多年来一直没有受到挑战。通过回顾政策发展并借鉴实证研究，本文回顾了龙化现象，以评估自从权力下放以来，威尔士政策在多大程度上继续偏离英格兰。在同一管辖范围内。