If working on socio-economic mobility and public policies (education, labour market, etc.), this is your event. Don't miss out and apply before mid-March!

UCU Live now on YouTube discussing the #HECrisis: www.youtube.com/live/WZFPM_C... Estimates that there will be at least 10,000 job losses in HE this year!

How Thatcher transformed British politics blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Disturbing to read what is happening in US universities. Wondering why there is not yet much discussion of this in UK unis, or in my own discipline of criminology?

📌 Save the Date! Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.

Join for a Report Launch Event on "Increasing the Representation of Women from Racially Minoritised Communities in UK Local Politics" w/ Khursheed Wadia on Tuesday 04/02 @7-8.15pm (GMT). To register for this ONLINE event and to read the report, please click here: www.elect-her.org.uk/events-works...

Join our next ‘Aesthetics & Justice’ seminar on: Exploring the Soundscapes of Incarceration w/ Laudan Nooshin & Kate Herrity Weds 19th February 2025 | 2 – 3.15 pm (GMT) Warwick Law School (S2.09) & Online: tinyurl.com/3ftjrnev

Recommended to my first-year Analysing Social Inequalities Students :)

An ESRC-funded studentship, drawing on multiple UK birth cohorts, to explore the relationship between Crime, Politics, and Punishment (and anything else!) based at Warwick. Closing date Feb 20th. Additional training can be provided for students without a master's. See www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN135/p...

Moving adults into the youth secure estate... www.ayj.org.uk/news-content...

V. useful new and up-to-date handbook on the link between inequalities and crime edited by @stephenfarrall.bsky.social and @susanmcvie.bsky.social and a lot of good people in between! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Great job opportunity

@universityofleeds.bsky.social are the latest university to cease posting on X. They are the first one I have seen to have made a formal statement about it.

Looks like a great opportunity 👇

And Vickie should know! Thanks for that recommendation, you were a model PhD student!

Was a better time to examine the complicated relationship between crime, politics & punishment? Please look & share this studentship, based at the vibrant & friendly @sociowarwick.bsky.social with @stephenfarrall.bsky.social using British Cohort Data (@clscohorts.bsky.social ). Questions welcome.

This is another ESRC funded PhD I am involved in with Emily Gray in Sociology @ Warwick. Again, please pass on to others. Thank you!

In other news today, we have a new & exciting ESRC studentship to advertise!! If you or someone you know is interested in the r'ship between crime, politics, & punishment, check out this opportunity. Please share! @stephenfarrall.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN135/p...

Please could academic folks bring this to the attention of final yr UGs and MA students in criminology, sociology and pol sci (etc.) please? The PhD studentship is to study the extent of electoral fraud in Britain, working with BMG Research, Dr Siim Trumm and myself. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL511/p...

New book chapter by Ben Matthews and Susan McVie 'A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality' in the Handbook on Crime and Inequality, edited by @stephenfarrall.bsky.social & Susan McVie. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han... #Criminology @thesccjr.bsky.social

The European Society of #Criminology (ESC) Annual Conference 2025 being hosted in Athens 🇬🇷 is now open for: (A) Delegate registration; and (B) Call for Papers: Abstract Submissions. convention2.allacademic.com/one/esc/esc25/

New: Mark Zuckerberg was warned he'd die in prison. Tim Cook said those who led the "shameful" insurrection "should be held to account." Google's founder said he was "deeply offended" by Trump's first win. Now all have fallen in line, giving $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund wapo.st/3PzjIC1

The Law Commission will review the law relating to homicide offences, including full and partial defences to those offences, and the existing sentencing framework for murder in 2025 - see www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/bi... by @richardjgarside.bsky.social for an overview.

Soul-draining discussion on Radio Four Today about Higher Education just now. Is it the principal purpose of a university to deliver "value for money" for students? Do the conditions staff work in matter? Does the state of the economy have anything to do with their long-term outcomes?

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!

[New Blog 🖊️] Bill De La Rosa reflects on Trump's reelection, the ongoing fight for immigrant rights, and its bleak future. Despite fear, he draws strength and hope from those he advocates for, frontline workers, and legal organisations. Read the full blog here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

“when municipal revenues fell by 10%, cities reduced police expenditures by an associated 1% and social service expenditures by 4%, with parks and housing seeing the biggest cuts.” 2/2

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

As a society we need to really think about this prison demand. Why do we choose to send so many people to prison? What are we trying to achieve? We could reduce reoffending and save money if we used prison less. www.nao.org.uk/reports/incr... #prison #criminology

This is interesting, though in our 2022 article on the British Journal of Criminology we show that public concern about crime has tracked victimisation rates pretty closely over time... academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...

#OpenAccess - Party Positioning Under Populist State Leaders - cup.org/3VmcILW - Marcel Garz & Tanmay Singh #FirstView

i came across this 1989 newspaper front page posted on a bulletin board (for another article). your post reminded me of it. he’s always been a caricature of a millionaire playboy, and people are drawn to it.

🐝 To mark The UoM Bicentenary, we’re launching a blog series exploring how Manchester’s rich criminology legacy continues to shape our research and impact today. #UkCriminology #Criminology #Academicbluesky Read more: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings...

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic. Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies “UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇 academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

MIDLANDS CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2025 Hosted by the University of Derby April 24th to April 25th, 2025 Call for Stream Proposals static1.squarespace.com/static/64468...

At Knight, we’ve been closely watching the shift in how Americans get information. The latest Pew-Knight Initiative report reveals that almost 1 in 5 adults regularly get news from news influencers on social media. Swipe for key 🗝️ findings and read more here: kf.org/3CrnwlB @pewresearch.org

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

Oxford DPhil in Criminology, ESRC funded opportunity, deadline for applications - 29 Jan 2025 www.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-for-c...

How can we improve young people’s mental health, education and employment? Earlier this year, with the support of the Health Foundation, we published research which showed that he number of young people who are economically inactive due to ill health has doubled in the last decade.

The new issue of Theoretical Criminology is out in the world with a terrific special issue on Dismantling the Shadow Carceral State, edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social, & April D. Fernandes. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/28/4

The Institute of Criminology is advertising the position of an Associate Professor to lead the Master of Studies (MSt) programme in Applied Criminology, Penology & Management. This is a part-time role on a fixed-term basis for three years. Further information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49313/

Colliery communities and pithead heroes In 1984 the #Heroes concert at Consett, County Durham, raised funds for striking mineworkers This poster is part of the huge archives of the National Union of Mineworkers #ExploreYourArchives

Job Alert @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Teaching Associate in Public and Social Policy (Fixed term) jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Tomorrow night in Glasgow. Come and say hello. 😊

Check out @crexuio.bsky.social blog RightNow edited by me and the brilliant Nina Høy-Pettersen! if you’re interested in topics related to the contemporary far right, mainstreaming, racialisation, Islamophobia, antisemitism, misogeny and anti-gender. #Sociology #Criminology #Politicalscience

Exciting news! At Swansea University we’re hosting the 5th Narrative Criminology Symposium -‘Narrating harm, narrating hope’ - 15th-17th June 2025. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narrative-...

Today's free tip sheet contains five links to studies about the shadow carceral state, selected from Theoretical Criminology's new special issue. #corrections #crime #criminology #CriminalJustice #TrueCrime open.substack.com/pub/aaronjac...