Rod Earle
@rodearle.bsky.social
Reluctant criminologist, The Open University, convictions my own and others
Open University contribution to education in prison features in today’s Guardian. And I chip in as well www.theguardian.com/tone/letters
Letters | The Guardian
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You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
Hey #Criminology & #CJS, If you're interested in #prison & #SensoryCriminology then check out this week's #ThinkingAloud on BBC #Radio4 @kateherrity.bsky.social will be discussing her book Sound, Order and Survival in Prisons: The Rythms and Routines of HMP Midtown www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Prison violence, sound and survival
A prize-winning study of the sounds of prison life, and an exploration of victimisation.
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O’Toole calls the dynamic duo of BritPol “walking embodiments of political putrefaction”. Usual neat understatement. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps
If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics
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www.equator.org/about this new journal is well worth a look. Great writing, great ideas.
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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This is behind a paywall but well worth a read, a good introduction to some of the ways whiteness is avoided, misunderstood and underestimated. Dm for a copy
Ivan Kalmar@ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery grateful to Louis Howard Porter for a gracious review of my book White But Not Quite and its contribution to understand how racialization functions in postcommunist Europe. doi.org/10.1017/slr....
www.lse.ac.uk/events/book-... With all this talk of Reform it is good to see the other ‘R’ word in the launch for this book: “We argue for the need for a revolution in violence reduction - to build a new movement for change that connects the dots between policy and the street.” Amen to that! Avanti!
Mannheim Centre for Criminology | Book launch event
In this event we are bringing together some of the leading voices in violence reduction policy and practice, to prompt honest discussion about the future of violence reduction in the UK
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o... Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Opinion | Could This Unserious, Mischievous, Frightening Man Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
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Aime Cesaire: “that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it…”
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.
The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control@europeangroup.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe highly recommend this: www.versobooks.com/products/341... Free Palestine!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read
Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press
This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider live...
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Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download @pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
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You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.
Dr J Warr@warrcrim.bsky.social · 10mo agoThere are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings: 1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson). 2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy) #criminology
“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...
Challenging Conceptions of “Borders” and “Race”: Q&A with E. Tendayi Achiume
E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science, comes to the Institute from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the international le...
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This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Love, Class and Empire
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Love, Class and Empire
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UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:
Alice Roberts@profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe need to be very clear about this. Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Morning Live
Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier.
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This is my mid-week gig! All welcome
@lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · last yr.Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice 📅11 June 🕰️5pm start Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2 @jkoehler.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…
Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with | Samuel Earle
Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle
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Sycamore Gap tree duo do not belong in prison | Letters
Letters: Two men convicted of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree should face a punishment that fits the crime, not jail, writes Dr Rod Earle. Plus letters from Matt Powell, Shayne Mary Mitchell and Mi...
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... also written by Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @profalexstevens.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @lbilli91.bsky.social @remyacb.bsky.social @dmachover.bsky.social @rodearle.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social
INQUEST@inquest-org.bsky.social · last yr.“Claiming stun guns will make prisons safer is perverse. A debate about violence and safety must include state violence against prisoners and the shocking death rate in prisons, up to 399 deaths in the year to March 2025, an increase of 37%.” @debcoles13.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social
Check this out! Essential and timely and Open Access. Building an effective anti racist politics has always been an urgent priority and has never been easy. This really helps manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169662/
Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris
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One of my very favourite versions of a very fine song. Take a listen. Two or three years old now and better every time. happypeoplerecords1.bandcamp.com/track/mumma-...
(Mumma Was A) Bankrobber, by Happy People Records
from the album Perkie & The Co-operators - (Mumma was a) Bankrobber 7"
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