Article Out! Exploring psychological and relational challenges to desistance from gang crime. Interviews with incarcerated youths and staff highlight how internalized disbelief of current options and safe/meaningful futures permeates the narrative among staff, youths and society at large.

Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, gave this year’s Howard League Lecture, with the title ‘Rehabilitation and Penal Reform’. Read the lecture here: https://howardleague.org/blog/the-2025-howard-league-lecture-held-in-memory-of-lord-parmoor/

Halloween is saved! 👻🎃🧛‍♀️

I'm sure Nicola did the book proud! More details about this edited collection, Parole Futures, available here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parole-fu...

Let us (the #British) be honest. If your major #politics proposal involves the mass deportation of 'others' on the basis of cultural cohesion... you're trying to legitimate a form of ethnic cleansing! In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life! #UKPolitics

I finally got around to turning what started as a presentation at ESC in Florence a couple of years ago into an article in CMC! 🥳 Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout) #criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography

Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #Gaza

#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect Comments in link below

New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...

📘 Not sure when a conviction is “spent”? Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who. 💡 Clear steps, less stress. 👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025 #SupportNotStigma #Disclosure

This is such a profoundly bad move by the #EuroCrim2025 organisers/Board. Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices. People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees. I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention. #ESC2025

My PhD research 'Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales' is now available online! etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

All set up for #EuroCrim2025 or #EuroCrim25. Come and say hello if you want to talk #criminology publishing. I can also talk about music, movies and books.

UK - More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women. Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US military spending is the reason Americans can’t have nice things like free healthcare. “Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social

The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...

BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity." (Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)

I'm an associate professor 🤯🎓💐 #criminology

Important information for anyone attending the European Society of Criminology in Athens and for members of ESC. Petition outlines serious concerns. Consider what you can do to support 👇👇 👇#eurocrim

Norway’s parliamentary elections are coming up. As in many other European countries, the right is focusing on immigration and crime. But Norway remains a remarkably prosperous, diverse, and safe society. Rarely have the right’s talking points seemed more unreal.

This is my pile of books to take to the ESC conference in Athens next week. I honestly don't think they will all fit, so apologies in advance.... Looking forward to hitting the road again and talking #criminology with current and future authors and editors.

🚨I'm very excited to announce the launch of my report: Release from long-term imprisonment. This report is based on a new empirical study I conducted last year into the release experiences of people who have served very long prison sentences. prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...

As part of their Access to Justice spotlight series, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published a new report 'exposing serious failings in the way complaints are handled in Scotland’s prisons.' #HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology 🔗 👇 www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...

📖 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?...

📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

Applications are open for PhD students at Stockholm Uni's Dept of Criminology. Four years of full time research! In a vibrant research environment. Dream up your project and apply via the link.

📕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

At the launch of the Young Warriors podcast in Glasgow 👇🎧 In this podcast, Ali Fraser and some formidable young people explore street culture and youth-led change in different places across the UK. @crmnlgy.bsky.social #Criminology #YouthWork #YoungPeople #podcast 🔗 open.spotify.com/show/1KLXLNF...

New tunes coming soon and available to pre-order now. 😊 fergusmcneill.bandcamp.com/album/3live-...

Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...

Colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) are advertising for a permanent, full-time lectureship in Criminology. #Criminology #Academia www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT331/l...

It’s a whole year since I released this EP, so I’ve put it up on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/R2gbLSZ45Awr...

What happens when academics live together: spontaneous co-writing. 🥳 Our book finally arrived! @robingalnander.bsky.social #criminology #desistance #academicsky #academia

Songwriters' shareback with Vox Liminis, an arts and justice charity in Glasgow. Our Unbound community has been going for 10 years, and it was great to hear some songs from the back catalogue played tonight, along with some new ones.

Publication day! @spookademic.bsky.social and I wrote a book, deep diving into the struggles involved in desistance from crime and - crucially - dealing with concepts of normalcy from a position as outsider.

Hello from the Editors at the European Journal of Probation! We are just getting started on BlueSky. We welcome submissions on a range of topics across: #probation and community justice, sentencing, #parole, resettlement, desistance, and much more. 🔗 to our website: journals.sagepub.com/home/EJP

Pls RT: Here’s my colleague Tilman very briefly explaining what’s special about our MSc in Criminology & Criminal Justice at @uofglasgow.bsky.social youtu.be/LGbFYcpQS04

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Come and work with some excellent people @uniofnottingham.bsky.social . We have an opening for a #criminology ass prof. #AcademicSky #sociology #jobs.ac.uk #USA #UK jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Funded PhD on AI, Criminal Responsibility and the State Deadline 31 March Co-supervised in Glasgow and Sydney, with time spent at each institution www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc... #LAW #AI #PhDChat

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

Some more details about the book which @susanmcvie.bsky.social and I edited can be found here: Please do repost! Many thanks, Steve.

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...

Great to see my review of Gilly Sharpe’s book on ‘Women, Stigma and Desistance from Crime’ in Criminology & Criminal Justice journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Hope this excellent work is read widely. It focuses not just on criminal (in)justice but wider failures across welfare & education.

My first book! Leaders with #livedexperience can inform practice relationships that are humanising, empowering & nurturing of empathy, solidarity and social action routledge.com/Peer-Mentori... #peermentoring

We're looking for a new Head of School. Details here - please do forward on. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKP667/h...

Excited to share my paper published in ASR on unemployment and suicide!! Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...