Are organised armed gangs in Haiti capable and ideologically committed to overthrowing the state and challenging for political power? Irvin Kinnes, University of Cape Town, will give his thoughts on these questions at our next Security & Justice Futures webinar on Mon 6 Oct. bit.ly/gangs-haiti 👈

The SCCJR & UNL is hosting an event with Prof. David Garland who will talk about his new book, 'Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment.' Join us online Wed 24 Sept, 4pm UK time. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

Textbook Launch Event🚀 Join us for this in-person event @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on 7 Oct 3-5pm where we bring together a range of voices to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going. Register your place now 👇 bit.ly/criminal-jus...

📢Parliamentary Internship Programme Applications Now Open! Don’t miss your chance to apply to our flagship internship programme to kickstart your future in politics & public life. 📆29 September 2025 Don’t waste time and apply today:

The main news story running on BBC Scotland today is about Order for Lifelong Restrictions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If you want to know more about OLRs listen to the latest episode of Just Humans wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/JustHumans-OLR 🎧

📢 Article Alert! "To warn or not to warn? Trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences in UK HE", by JMC researchers @profkarenboyle.bsky.social, Melanie McCarry & Melody House, has been selected for the Journal of Gender-Based Violence Editors’ Collection Choice! 👏 🆓 Free access here:

2nd & 3rd yr SGSSS PhD students can come on academic placement with me & @kjellgren.bsky.social at @sacasrstir.bsky.social Work with the RELEASE dataset examining health service contacts on release from prison If eligible you'll have details in your inbox from @sgsss.bsky.social #JusticeHealth

📄 NEW Report: Interested in the potential crime and security risks of freeports, in pursuing #NetZero? 'Inverness and Comarty Green Freeport: Assessing Crime and Security Risks' 🔗 to the report in next post 👇 @thesccjr.bsky.social #ICFGF #GreenFreeport #Criminology #Security #Inverness #Scotland

Interested in any of these titles? Come and review one for us! Book reviewers receive a free e-copy or print copy in exchange for 750-1,000 words of their insight into the text. Email our book reviews editor nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info 📖

🚨My report on the criminological risks of the Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport has been published! Massive thanks to everyone at @thesccjr.bsky.social for the opportunity and for their own work in creating this. Read it here: www.sccjr.ac.uk/publication/...

If you're a criminology lecturer, teaching assistant or school teacher, you have to check out our resources! Why not add a podcast episode, recorded seminar or an SCCJR publication to this year's reading/listening lists for your students? sccjr.ac.uk/resources/

📢 2 fixed term positions are currently available within our criminology team 📢 1 Lecturer in Criminology Full time (35 hours p/w), Fixed Term (9 months) Grade 6 - £46,049 to £58,225 per annum Colleagues at the PhD submission/viva stage are welcome to apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH075/l...

Thank you to everyone who has shared, supported and/or participated in this project🙏 Over 400 people filled in the survey and we are in the process of arranging interviews. We will provide an update on our progress and report publication plans later in the year.

What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia? @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin. #OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ

JOB: Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at the University of Glasgow. Full time, fixed term (5 year) post in a collegiate team which is part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social #Criminology #AcademicSky #Research www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD973/l...

NEW #textbook on Criminal Justice in #Scotland by me & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social @socscinapier.bsky.social colleagues, Jamie Buchan and @kmmorrison.bsky.social, out on 4th Aug. Until the 1st it's £8 off in the Routledge sale: www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...

❗EXTENDED DEADLINE We have had an incredible response to this survey - thank you to everyone who has participated. The team have now extended the deadline to Monday 14 July.

🎧 NEW JUST HUMANS EPISODE OUT NOW! Listen on Apple & Spotify - search 'Just Humans' - or on our website. sccjr.ac.uk/podcast/a-se... 🔊 Wee clip below of @justrachelle.bsky.social Nicola Ceesay & @margueritesch.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

Dr Kelly Johnson said: "We are launching an online confidential survey to capture the extent and nature of women musician's experience of sexual violence and harassment and collect ideas and understandings about pathways for change and possible routes forward." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📖 Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, & Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander is now on our YouTube page. @spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...

If you're ok on TikTok give us a follow. www.tiktok.com/@thesccjr

📖 The hidden harms of the Onlife: How digital life is changing what we call crime by SCCJR's own Janos Mark Szakolczai @uofgsps.bsky.social www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/06/26/t...

Are you a postgraduate student in Criminology or Criminal Justice studying in Scotland? Bayan Jabalawi wants to hear your views on AI and the criminal justice system.

🗣️ Please share/take part in our survey on: Women musicians' experiences of sexual violence & harassment in the Scottish folk scene. We've heard many conversations about ongoing challenges and hope to help develop better understanding and awareness, and pathways to change. ✍️ bit.ly/UofG-Survey

🥳 Congratulations to our very own @fergusmcneill.bsky.social who has been awarded ERC Advanced Grant funding for his 'Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe' project.

📢 New Online Workshop! Against the Latin American Current? Conditions and Mechanisms of Decarceration in Chile. 🗣️Javier Wilenmann, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. 📌Wed 25 June, 4pm (UK time), Online. Register now! bit.ly/4jN7xhC

Cracking piece by Ali Fraser @crmnlgy.bsky.social in @glasgowbell.bsky.social over the weekend on his new podcast Young Warriors where he learns about youth violence in Glasgow, and how projects like G20 are helping turn lives around. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-yout... #YoungWarriorsPodcast

🟢 Watch our Southern Green Criminology webinar on the SCCJR YouTube channel where Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo, talks about how the unequal distribution of capital has shaped contemporary dynamics of environmental harm and crime. youtu.be/1JGVk-9x-lw

Cardiff: Violence on the Frontline. Young people in Cardiff aren’t just speaking out - they’re gathering evidence and changing policy. Meet the Peer Action Collective and hear how they're taking the fight against violence to the Welsh Parliament: 🎧https://shorturl.at/xWH90 #YoungWarriorsPodcast

The role of digital communications evidence in Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) applications involving rape and sexual offences has been reviewed by @thesccjr.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social. Read more ➡️ gla.ac/43LLsKj @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

🎧 Dundee: Gang Labels and Deep Time In Dundee, the word “gang” has deep roots - from medieval rebels to 1970s jumpers to modern street life. What can the past teach us about today? tinyurl.com/h497sk78 #YoungWarriorsPodcast

🚨 Registrations are now open for our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice” 🚨 🗓️ 9-10 September 2025 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

📢New Report: Researchers Review Role of Digital Communications Evidence in Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Applications. Read our press release here📰 www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/di...

⏺️ The recording of Tom Daems @eurocriminology.bsky.social workshop on 'Body Searches and Europe's Struggle with Degradation' is now available on the SCCJR YouTube channel. youtu.be/wcMyF9vFYMo?...

Great to see @thesccjr.bsky.social Young Warriors listed as a @theguardian.com best podcast pick of the week! Tune in to hear @crmnlgy.bsky.social travel across the UK to discover the power of youth-led change. #YoungWarriorsPodcast

Stirling criminologist and social statistics lecturer Dr Ben Matthews is interviewed in a @1919magazine.bsky.social article on crime rates and the difficulties of comparative analysis. @thesccjr.bsky.social @socsciresearchstir.bsky.social #Criminology 🔗 Article 1919magazine.co.uk/june2025/sco...

📕Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson @spookademic.bsky.social & Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social Commentators: @fergusmcneill.bsky.social & @margueritesch.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social 🗓️ 11 June, 1pm (UK time) 📌 Online 🔻Register bit.ly/3HdaR89

Manchester: Rewriting the Pain. In South Manchester, young people are turning pain into power - with rap, not retaliation. Listen here: shorturl.at/ShPne or search for 'Young Warriors' wherever you get your podcasts. #YoungWarriorsPodcast @crmnlgy.bsky.social

I'm currently recruiting for a 6-month Research Assistant/Associate post, nominally one day a week, with flexibility in terms of actual working times. The research is looking at the commissioning of domestic homicide / suicide-related death reviews.

🌎Southern Green Criminology - 3 June, Online. All welcome so please share with your followers.💚 bit.ly/south-green-...

🟠Body searches and Europe’s struggle with degradation. Join us Wed 28 May, 4pm (UK) for this online workshop with Prof. Tom Daems, KU Leuven. 👉https://bit.ly/3GT1Voe

🎙️Announcing Young Warriors, a new podcast that flips the script on youth culture and street life. Follow criminologist Ali Fraser @crmnlgy.bsky.social as he delves into street culture and learns about the power of youth-led change across the UK. open.spotify.com/show/1KLXLNF...

🌍 Southern Green Criminology webinar. 🗣️Dr David R. Goyes, University of Oslo. 📌Tues 3 June 1pm UK time. 👉Register bit.ly/south-green-... #SecurityJusticeFutures #Webinar #greencriminology #globalsouth #criminology

Major new report out today from SCCJR on the number of deaths in custody. ❗️Prison deaths in Scotland have surged to 64 in the last year. bit.ly/deaths-in-cu... Watch this short video to find out the key stats👇

Please share. Reminder that this webinar is on Wednesday afternoon. All welcome - just sign up. #bordercriminologies #immigration #detention

🗣️The Changing Landscape of Immigration Detention: A Case Study from Southern Europe with Cristina Fernández-Bessa, University of A Coruña. 🕓 30 April, 4pm (UK time)📍Online 👉 Register bit.ly/43YaZln #bordercriminology #immigration #detention #sccjr

Do you want to write about sentencing? Palgrave Macmillan have launched a new book series and they're looking for proposals for monographs, edited collections, short volumes of 25-50k words, and handbooks from established and early career scholars alike. #academic #law #sentencing #ecrc

The British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network is Offering Two £150 Bursaries to #ECRS #PhDs Who are Interested in Attending the Hate Crime Perpetrators Conference at Nottingham Trent Uni on the 5th June. The Conference is Free to Attend and #Hybrid Details to Apply Below 👇👇

📺 Last week's seminar is now on our YouTube channel. youtu.be/5vlsQJweM3o?...

Join us for Thursday's webinar where Dr. Patrick Mutahi analyses how different policing actors project their power and sovereignty in two informal settlements in Kenya: Mathare and Kaptembwo. Register your place here. bit.ly/3EXlWsH