Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

This is the most extraordinary judgment I’ve read all year. If there was not about to be a reshuffle - I suspect it might have been a resigning matter for the Attorney General. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

#Criminology and #CriminalJustice folk If you find yourself this weekend, bored, pissed off, and twiddling your thumbs ahead of the @britishcriminology.bsky.social Conf this coming week then check me out uhming and ahhing my way through some important topics here: open.spotify.com/episode/690d...

36: Processes of Racialisation with Dr Jason Warr

Justice Focus · Episode

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"The Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology seeks to appoint one permanent Lecturer post with expertise relevant to criminology and/or critical social policy to join our department in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool." www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ047/l...

Lecturer – Grade 7/8 at University of Liverpool

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer – Grade 7/8 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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THREAD: New article out in Incarceration, with Alice Ievins and Ben Crewe: "What are you in for?" We argue that prison researchers have mostly neglected to ask what people in prison think about their convictions. This produces a significant blind spot in understanding of imprisonment.

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

A wonderful, evocative, urgent post from Luisa T Schneider on the mundane cruelties of hostile architecture and infliction of pain on houseless bodies: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/16/t... #AcademicSky, #Sensory #Criminology, #Sociology, #CrimSky

The City That Won’t Let You Sit: Sensory Criminology and Urban Pain

…Western cities govern houselessness through what I conceptualize as deliberate nociception. There is a pervasive, intentional production of sensory pain that functions as a mechanism of regu…

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Hey #AcademicSky ... its #ECRFriday time! This week I'm boosting Dr April Smith doi.org/10.1177/1462... this is important for highlighting how Peer Mentoring in #prison may be framed as care, but can become a web of informal control that serve the interests of the institution #Criminology #CJS

Care or control? expanding the scope for understanding peer mentoring and implications for women's prisons - April Smith, 2026

This study explores the role of peer mentoring in a women's prison in England and Wales, focusing on its contributions to emotional well-being and the wide...

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Come and do a fully-funded 4-year PhD with me in Glasgow (and @thesccjr.bsky.social ) and Thomas Ugelvik as part of the Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe project. 😊. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc....

📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert: Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE). Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway. #Criminology #CrimSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...

Almost there…there's no one I find more unrelatable than people who say things like “I cannot wait to see my book published!!”. The prospect of publishing is always one of the most nerve wracking feelings. Even as a selfconfessed publishing scaredy-cat, this does feel scarier than most...1

Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

"We should be more like Singapore" "But far more 18 years old go to university there" "Not like that"

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

Ep 1️⃣ of Series 2️⃣ of Justice Focus ✴️ Postcolonial Policing How do histories of empire shape everyday realities of policing today? I chat to Dr. Zoha Waseem @warwickuni.bsky.social about her research on policing, security, & urban violence in Pakistan. PLEASE SHARE! open.spotify.com/episode/4KiW...

Postcolonial Policing with Dr Zoha Waseem

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Foreign nationals are underrepresented as a proportion of prisoners jailed in England and Wales when compared with rates of incarceration among British citizens of similar age, an analysis of government data has found

Foreigners underrepresented among prisoners in England and Wales, report finds

Analysis finds lower proportion of foreign inmates than would be expected if they were jailed at same rate as UK citizens of same age

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The Centre for People's Justice, based at @livunilawsj.bsky.social, is determined to put your priorities at the heart of their research. That's why they're following the progress of the new 'Hillsborough Law' from bill to enactment, and sharing the process as it happens. #HillsboroughLaw

Centre for Peoples Justice@cfpjustice.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Do you trust that the new Hillsborough Law can stop public officials from lying to the public? See our new video on the Hillsborough Law in Parliament and follow for real-time updates: youtube.com/watch?v=MCoS... #HillsboroughLaw #CentreForPeoplesJustice #CFPJ

Is it possible to live a good life in confinement? How do 'official' moral discourses shape what prison makes morally possible, inside and outside? Join us on 17th Oct as we launch a special issue of Incarceration discussing these questions and more events.humanitix.com/themed-issue...

Signed.

Steve Tombs@stevetombs.bsky.social · last yr.

The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely @europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

1 Day Event @uniofbath.bsky.social: "Justice Beyond Criminal Justice" Are you working on justice thinking or processes that sit outside the formal criminal justice system? If so, come & present your ideas Wed 29th Oct *Please share widely* www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/justice-be...

Justice beyond Criminal Justice

A one-day symposium hosted by the University of Bath

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How has 'county lines' drug dealing evolved over recent years? @jennalcarr.bsky.social from the Dept of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology explores the changing tactics.

What we’ve learned in ten years about county lines drug dealing

The practice is becoming more localised, with fewer lines running between police forces

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This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

Alison Phipps አሊሰን@alisonphipps.bsky.social · last yr.

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What a lovely way to start the week: 🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 My article about the lives of life-sentenced women in the community after release from prison is now available #OpenAccess in Theoretical Criminology: doi.org/10.1177/1362... Key points:

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine

Find out about the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, including who should have it, when it's given and possible side effects.

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Prof Cath Noakes@cathnoakes.bsky.social · last yr.

While infection control and cleaning is always a good thing, it’s not going to cut it for measles. Measles is airborne and highly contagious. The best approach is vaccination, and local infection control should focus on ventilation and air cleaning www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🔴NEW🔴 and exclusive...Part 2 of our investigation into anti-rape organisation Enough Enough ambassador and "recovery coach" spoke at a far right rally along with Tommy Robinson supporters who called for "re-migration" and an end to "Islamic supremacy" www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-en...

Tech start-up aiming to ‘end rape’ spoke at far-right rally

Ambassador of anti-rape company Enough took to stage after Tommy Robinson ally who called for ‘re-migration’

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Hey #Criminology If anyone is doing anything on #DigitalPermanance and #CriminalRecords this call may be of interest (deadline is tomorrow for submission of abstracts) @nicolacollett.bsky.social of interest??

Rosamunde Van Brakel@rosamundevb.bsky.social · last yr.

‼️ Deadline tomorrow ‼️ 📢 Call for contributions! Together with Valerie Steeves and @ubisurv.net I'm editing the Elgar Encyclopedia of #Privacy and #Surveillance. Deadline proposals 15 July! www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

Big employability has convinced a generation of decision makers/students that there’s a series of bitesize specific #lifehacks inherent in degree level study that they’ve added. But it’s always been about the journey of gaining competence/mastery of a subject and the things you develop along the way

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last yr.

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

🔴NEW🔴 Back in February, an expert in sexual violence got in touch with me concerned about a start-up promising to "end rape" on campus. What's the problem? Who doesn't want to end rape? I started to investigate. Here's what I found www.opendemocracy.net/en/campaign-...

Enough: Start-up targeting rape survivors at UK universities

Launching in Bristol, Enough vowed to be the ‘breathalyser of rape’. But can fem tech really ‘deter’ sexual violence?

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