For those of interested in border control see what our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have been up to this year…

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's that time of year again, see the amazing stuff going at @bordercrim.bsky.social in our annual report... scroll down to link to the full report: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Read about the recent book on the history and present of Greek Immigration Detention by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc @andrianifili.bsky.social

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Caged Histories brings together over a decade of research on Greek immigration detention, shedding light on violence – and resistance – in these blind spots. On writing her book and making detention visible @andrianifili.bsky.social 📚⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Silvia Gomes from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'Re-entry in Portugal: From Lived Experiences to Abolitionist Reimaginations' 🏛️💻 👇 https://shorturl.at/GdAeM

Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social 's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring David Sklansky from @stanford.edu on 'Coercion, Control, and Complexity: Aiding and Abetting in the Context of Domestic Violence' 🏛️💻 👇 https://shorturl.at/vAyve

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....

Interested in US border control and the experience of claiming asylum? Juliana in Arizona talks about what it's like : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

This UNIQ+ paid summer internship would be based here @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social working with our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social. please share with eligible UK undergraduates

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you’re In the uk and have undergrads thinking of post graduate studies please let them know about the @ox.ac.uk UNIQ+ scheme. @bordercrim.bsky.social is hosting again for a project with @aviddetention.bsky.social info here (also about other subjects): www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

From today, new immigration offences give the UK government even more power to criminalise and imprison people crossing the Channel in dinghies. Read an overview of the changes from @vickytaylor.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Check out our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social who have been as busy as ever with lots more planned for 2026

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Before we close our blog for a well-earned break, we have some updates from our busy network! Find out what our members have been up to – from workshops, to toolkits, to films and books 📚 Wishing our colleagues and friends a restorative end to the year ❄️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Once more unto the #ECRFriday, dear friends, once more! Laura Haas is a DPhil candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Her article on the deployment experiences of #prison staff with prior military experience is both interesting and impactful. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #Criminology #Psychology

In this moving piece, Mónica Ruiz House takes us with her on a search and recovery operation in the Sonoran Desert. Here, religion-in-transit creates a shared language of grief for those who have lost their lives on the way. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Please read this very moving piece by one of the @oxfordcrim.bsky.social MSc students about the US/MX border. Looking for Jesús: Embodied Religious Practices and Grief at the U.S-Mexico border blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Looking for Jesús: Embodied Religious Practices and Grief at

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Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

📆 Event on 12 Nov! Dr Matilde Rosina will examine migration deterrence policies, with a focus on the introduction of the “crime of migration”. Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Congratulations @andrianifili.bsky.social! we hope there will be a book launch soon! @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So excited to have received my copy of @andrianifili.bsky.social’s fabulous new book: think I have got mine before she has received hers. It’s a very sobering read of course. But brilliant!

Our next Criminology All Souls Seminar 30 October - in person only, sign up at www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

A full house tonight for Dr Samuel Singler’s book launch @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social. Very pleased to have seen this from doctoral thesis to publication.The book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control, is open access at: repository.essex.ac.uk/41343/1/isbn...

🎓 Congratulations to Dr Luiz Dal Santo! Oxford DPhil Criminology graduate. "Punishment, State, and Society in the Global Periphery: Mass Incarceration, Mass Incorporation, and the Rise of a Protagonist Judiciary in Brazil", 📚 Luiz’s published research here: researchgate.net/profile/Luiz-Dal-Santo

See what our colleagues got up at the annual @bordercrim.bsky.social workshop

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations. Watch to find out more! 👇 @juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

if anyone has any ideas about funding, our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have an unexpected shortfall for their communications work...

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I know there is a lot going on in the world but @bordercrim.bsky.social facing a funding crisis to stay meaningfully afloat. Initially in search of £12,000— any ideas of where to look gratefully received. Feels like a bad time to have our platform shrink.

this will be great. the book is excellent. please do join us!

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention. Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity" Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social

The Border as a Service Job: Supply Chain Justice—the Logistics of British Border Control by Mary Bosworth

Today’s newspapers are strewn with increasingly restrictive and populist positions on migration control and asylum politics. Many of these positions imagin

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📣The Centre for Criminology is delighted to announce our renewed partnership with justice reformer and philanthropist Lady Edwina Grosvenor to advance the important work of the Death Penalty Research Unit 🤲 Read more 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Come and join us in Public Law @uctlaw.bsky.social. Five positions in international law, environmental law and criminal law. It is a fantastic department with a wonderful collection of colleagues doing cutting edge legal research. Further details below jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...

See what our colleagues have been up @bordercrim.bsky.social

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to share this' year's bumper edition of the @bordercrim.bsky.social annual report. everyone has been very active and is doing amazing things... we just need more funding... like everyone else.. : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

🚨 We're now on Bluesky! 🚨 Follow Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal for updates, calls for papers, and criminological conversations in a new space. 📢 @crimandcj.bsky.social Come say hi and help us build the CJ community on Bluesky too!

Read our latest blog post written about one of our Trinity term All Souls Seminars: Genocide - The Crime of Crimes blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-crimi...

@vickytaylor.bsky.social on the continuity of cruelty in the UK/France deal and the lack of evidence about deterrence. Of interest to @bordercrim.bsky.social folks too: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

‘One in, one out’ Channel deal is just another cruel gimmick

Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people

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Work in education and want to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence? Join our webinar to learn how to identify and intervene when a child or young person is at risk of becoming involved in violence and hear about our new tool. 📅 Sign-up youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/

A slightly more social sciencey-piece than normal from me about the results of the survey with detainee escorting staff that found 1 in 8 (12.6%) had had suicidal thoughts ‘some’, ‘most’ or ‘all the time’ over the previous 7 days: doi.org/10.1177/1748...