New paper in Crime, Media, Culture! I look at examples from the UK, US, Canada and the EU to explore the visual-discursive framing on the border in recruitment materials. You can access it open access here: lnkd.in/eUGeniFF

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X" by @drconorwilson.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess in #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to share our new paper in the British Journal of Criminology! We introduce the concept of “blue space” to explore how police presence and “noticing” act as stopping technologies that bypass statutory police power to stop You can check it out here: academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

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NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My article is now available (OA) in Theoretical Criminology (@theoreticalcrim.bsky.social) Hopefully of interest to anyone interested in humanitarian borders, border spectacles or visual criminology! You access for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did Brexit unleash new suffering on UK farms? The seasonal worker visa made the UK’s migrant agricultural workforce more vulnerable to exploitation, says one expert ⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...