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How many times do we need to point out that continuing to use the concept of #race as if it is legitimate, only perpetuates the the base principles of #racism!? You cannot challenge the problem whilst utilising its conceptual frame (its a masters tools argument). #Criminology #CriminalJustice

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No shade, but if you didn’t know this attack on science, medicine, and public health was coming, you haven’t been paying attention.

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Despite a ruling – over a decade ago – that storing images of arrested people who were innocent of any crimes is unlawful, the police have continued to retain and use these images, including for their unregulated, unaccountable facial recognition searches. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

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I really don't think people in the international #academe realise quite what is happening to our colleagues in the US. The wholesale attack on #AcademicFreedom, the imposition of #EthnoNationalist ideals, surveillance via a #Technopticon, etc. is having a chilling effect. #Academia #Criminology

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Today in my #criminology there graduate seminar, we covered Institutional Anomie Theory. All I needed to use as an example was DOGE, and I tragically saw realization cross over their faces.

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First post here! Sharing my latest article on the all-female 'Forty Elephants' gang (maybe of interest if you've been reading about the new #AThousandBlows show?) - read me for tales of women bandits, getaway driving and West End shoplifting! #historians #criminology #gangs doi.org/10.1093/tcbh...

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Join us at our next All Souls Seminar, sign up at forms.office.com/e/ZndqSchbQc

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Just out in the Brit. Jnl. Criminology #probation #criminology Please repost! Thanks! academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

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Just to say, if you think contemporary "AI" systems can predict #risk or future offending you ... a) Don't understand LLMs b) Don't understand complexity of crime causality c) Don't understand risk or predictive #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice

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Since my buddy @nateo.bsky.social put this on my feed, and (unlike Ryan) I'm actually a professional who works on these issues, let me make something clear. What he's proposing isn't just ineffective, pie-in-the-sky. It's incredibly dangerous, especially in the UK's incompetent tech ecosystem.

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My article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has just been assigned to the new issue of Theoretical Criminology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... In the🧵 below you can read the piece's main arguments. Let me know what you think! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

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Anyone aware of research or scientific evidence of the effectiveness of video surveillance as an intervention for drug-related violence? #criminology #crimsky #surveillance

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'careful, insightful, and agenda-setting' The Editors are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 BJPS Popper Prize https://www.thebsps.org/auxhyp/bjps-popper-prize-2024/ #philsci #philsky

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Oscar Wilde, still 1 of the best on #prison "Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over ... it abandons him ..." #Criminology

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Spacey's response to Guy Pearce is classic abuser fodder: if he was "really" a victim he would not have spoken to or seen him ever again. This is exactly the kind of myth about sexual abuse and "true victims" that pervades our justice system and distorts outcomes www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

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Civil procedure is astonishingly complex; until it is made more user friendly, it is inevitable that LiPs will not be able to compete on an even playing field and will end up in situations like this.

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I wrote 6 years ago about the intellectual history on the right of the view that black, Asian and mixed-race Brits – whether or not they were born here – are "foreigners", and its mainstreaming in contemporary conservativism. www.politics.co.uk/comment-anal...

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It reveals the dire state of criminology & sociology in communicating research findings when this half-assed article is considered ‘excellent’.

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Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons. My piece for @newstatesman.com on why our addiction to longer sentences is unsustainable. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

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A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience

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This is, remarkably, more unpleasant when you read the article than the top line would suggest.

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After the horrors of the 20th Century this should not need to be pointed out, but ... When you adopt the neutralising language deployed by the powerful to cover over the harms of their foul deeds; you become complicit in the harms of those deeds! #criminology #StateCrimes #Gaza

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Some news, team! 🎙️ I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week. ‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system. Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡

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“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline. It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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📚 Access to new article '‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting prison staff wellbeing in England through creative writing' now available via link below: journals.sagepub.com/share/QZNDQI...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Upcoming seminar: The Political Prison: Prisoners’ Collective Action in Late Colonial Uganda 26 February, 1600-1700 GMT/UTC, online Katherine Bruce-Lockhart www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi... #Criminology #Prisons #Coloniality

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Gendering Jail Craft: Preparing Officers for the Realities of Women’s Prisons? This blog shares some preliminary findings from a study tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training @drswaite.bsky.social on British Society of Criminology wp.me/p9dqlz-izE

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Just got an official email from DOJ prohibiting us from asking about "gender" on surveys, limiting questions to the biological designations of male or female. OK then, since "race" is also not biological but rather a socio-political construct, we'll be dropping that from federal data too, right?

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📢 YOUR HELP NEEDED! Have you ever used work by us or Dr Anna Bull on sexual misconduct in higher ed, in a non-academic capacity? If yes, please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You’d be really helping us measure our work's impact and plan future activity! 🧵

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Great special issue on human trafficking, with several open access articles. #AcademicSky #Sociology #Criminology

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Really pleased to be able to share some insights from my work tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training. Paper in progress, happy to connect with anyone interested in this area: thebscblog.wordpress.com

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How do we shift responsibility for dealing with gender-based violence away from victims-survivors onto institutions in higher education? Our Dr Anna Bull discusses this important question in a talk for the ENOHE (from 15:15): www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FRq...

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What can be done about the silencing of those who speak and write about sexual misconduct in higher education? Should higher ed institutions keep registers of perpetrators? These and more are discussed in our newest joint report with FemIDEAS, accessible here: 1752group.com/wp-content/u... 🧵

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