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...

O’Toole calls the dynamic duo of BritPol “walking embodiments of political putrefaction”. Usual neat understatement. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Roger Ebert. 🤣😂🤣😂

www.equator.org/about this new journal is well worth a look. Great writing, great ideas.

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

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!

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

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.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read

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...

You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.

“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...

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...

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:

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...

This is my mid-week gig! All welcome

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…

... 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

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/

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-...

Shocked. And saddened to read this. The OU can do better than this. insidetime.org/newsround/th...

Good news is in short supply but I’d like to congratulate the very wonderful Dr Bill Davies on his promotion to Reader, the best of all academic titles. Bill and I have worked together on convict criminology in the UK since day 1. He is so modest about his achievements.

Fab opportunity to work with great people 👇👇👇

Prison and prison ed folk here in UK might be interested in this US newsletter. www.opencampus.org/college-insi...

Please share this call on your networks about prison and/or education www.ucu.org.uk/media/14950/...

Richard Yeboah's book about Hackney & gentrification is out soon. Pre-order here: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/from-h... I reviewed it & said: "Neither a lecture nor a rant, [the book] guides the reader through the contours of controversy with gentle tenacity, careful balance & a lot of heart"

No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid. Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces. People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.

Seeing Tenpole Tudor sing ‘Who Killed Bambi’ holds a very special place in my memory so seeing Robert de Niro being haunted by his demented warbling in the Netflix Zero Day series is seriously messing with me.

The BBC is launching a special new season - Memories and Dementia: Starting the Conversation. I've been able to support this in my Media Fellow role at The Open University, with segments on Morning Live and additional content on OU Connect. Read about the season here: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

It should be obvious by now that Netanyahu won't stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza (and perhaps the West Bank) has been murdered, maimed or expelled. He wants it all. Governments like ours should cut off all military equipment, diplomatic support and other relations until the genocide ends.

New, free online course on tobacco #harmreduction thr.academy/academy/

📢 Against Youth Violence, the book me and Keir Irwin-Rogers published in 2022, is now fully open access! 📢 Link here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book... Contents list in image. You can download chapter by chapter, or the whole thing. Please share!

Join us on 18 March for a special GCSJ research talk with Professor Catherine Hall. She explores the troubling history of the entanglements between Britain & Jamaica, through the establishment of a slave society. ⏰2-3.25pm 🌐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983849 #jamaica #slavery #colonialism

First up, Julie Laursen and Kristian Mjaland's contribution to this themed issue, 'The absent-presence of the offence in prisons in Norway and England & Wales' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some Canadian poetry for today. From Margaret Atwood's book, Morning in the Burned House. #poem #books #writing

The AfD is still biggest in the East and some will again blame this on the legacy of socialism, rather than the economic brutality that dominated Germany and Europe during unification. I've tried to address this issue here doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Wilde coins them, @warrcrim.bsky.social shares them.

thejazzcafe.com/event/courtn... Ticket available dm me if interested.

We are just getting started…👇 Aren’t we?! 🤚 Rage. On. ✨

Powerful writing on terrible events in Scotland’s prisons www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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