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The Guardian view on the Gauke review: prison isn’t working | Editorial

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Punishment has been conflated with revenge. It’s myopic and counter-productive: we need to look beyond vengefulness when holding people accountable for the harms they have done.

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Did you know that women were being taken to prison ‘as a place of safety’? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I’m just an academic asking job reference requests to come with a simple text box and not two pages of instructions and a requirement for two uploaded documents… I have to write dozens of these. Take pity.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Hi everyone, to kick off my maiden post please read our newly published paper in the BJC which argues for the abolition of all short term custodial sentences for children, and presents an alternative, viable, cost effective model @drkathyhampson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

"Our prisons are so broken that we can't carry on. Politicians may disagree on how we fix the penal system, but everyone can agree that reform is needed." Our Chief Executive, Andrea Coomber KC (Hon.), wrote an opinion piece for @bigissue.com: www.bigissue.com/opinion/pris...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My former PhD supervisee is hilarious. 😂

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

A New Complaint System for Prisoners in Belgium - > chapter in Just Prisons - free to read via this link: rdcu.be/d5qcr link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

submitted 57 days ago • 208 comments

How can Louboutins be simultaneously so gorgeous and so torturous to wear…

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Happy new year! May 2025 be happier, healthier and more productive than the last. May your dreams come true and the world be just a little bit kinder.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Who had such a bad allergic reaction to some kind of bite that she ended up in A&E with suspected anaphylaxis/rash all over her body? Me. It’s me.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

This review was a joy to write!

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

So the other day a medical consultant was so rude to me (and belittled me by calling me, pointedly, MISS), that I indignantly fell over and twisted my ankle on stairs. Her reason? I sent too many emails. Reality - I emailed once on request of her secretary. Now I’m indignant AND in pain.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

New Publication: "The Rehabilitation Industry: Lived Experience and Performance" (10min read) Andi Brierley & I explore our observations of what we describe as a Rehabilitation Industry and reflect on our roles within it We pose tough questions for all CJS stakeholders—read & join the discussion!

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

Oh wow! We could learn from this.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

New @ofstednews.bsky.social Annual Report notes that prison education can have a "transformative effect" but also that "prison education remains weak, almost without exception". www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

For the early birds, I’ll be on Times Radio tomorrow at 5.45 am, discussing the costly policy failure that is the prison building programme

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

I created a starter pack for Sociologists/Social Scientists of Punishment. Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/CpCJb3J

submitted 104 days ago • 18 comments

I know that about 70% of my followers are hardworking academics. I encourage you to read this fascinating article that brilliantly captures our dramatic lives. It’s a sharp & witty reflection on the realities of academia that will resonate deeply with many of you. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

I feel so seen.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Since when is it ok to smoke, scream filthy abuse and harass people on a packed train…? Come on, people.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room? Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic. open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services) #Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy 1/2

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

If you care about prison reform, there are some excellent orgs working for change in this #StarterPack👇 Includes: 💪 @thehowardleague.bsky.social 💪 @prisonersadvice.bsky.social 💪 @prisonersed.bsky.social 💪 @prtuk.bsky.social 💪 @revdoors.bsky.social Lmk if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/2sQ9xmz

submitted 93 days ago • 7 comments

Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice. I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us. I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Me, a criminologist: I go to the theatre to relax and unwind from work. New musical I go and see blindly: Here’s a show about investigating a girl’s murder.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Policing priorities are like choosing jam in the supermarket: choice overload leads to not being able to choose or ignoring options and just doing what you normally do.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

submitted 97 days ago • 2305 comments

A joy to host the delightful Paula Harriott at the University of Birmingham yesterday; talking about the importance of listening to prisoner voices, challenging orthodox notions of expertise and activism as a driver for social change.

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🚨 The Carceral AI report is out! 🚫 Read the recommendations of global activists and researchers to resist technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. carceral-ai.com Download the pdf on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

SOLICITOR: I don’t know how you found her but you tried to add [paralegal] on Snapchat LIAM: NO I NEVER SOLICITOR: from your prison burner phone LIAM: HOW DID YOU.. oh SOLICITOR: we all knew you were on remand LIAM: SORRY VERY SORRY WONT DO IT AGAIN. ….CAN I ADD HER NOW? SOLICITOR: no!

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

#criminology #prison #ipm thehighlandtimes.com/voices-behin...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

As term (and gosh does it feel long…) is slowly but surely drawing to and end, and it’s cold and dark and generally bleh, I am so grateful I have musical theatre to keep me going. It’s so important to have a safe happy place and people to retreat to. 💜

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Criminologist Dr Marty Chamberlain is one of the co-authors of a new article: 'A Qualitative Systematic Review of the Barriers and Facilitators of the Reintegration of Men Convicted of a Sexual Offense From Prison or Secure Care into the Community' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Criminology

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

There are some bloody brilliant people on this #CriminalJustice #StarterPack Lawyers, commentators and NGOs working in/ discussing topics from the police to the courts to prisons (hi 👋) to probation… Please do share - and let me know if you’d like to be added go.bsky.app/2sQ9xmz

submitted 100 days ago • 23 comments