Oh go on then. Feels like an opportune moment to give a plug to our forthcoming little book - bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ecologies-of...

Meaningful research. Collegial team. A pretty remarkable place to live. We’re recruiting two Lecturers (tenured Assistant Professor equivalent) to join us.

📢 Hiring: Postdoc in Criminology / Sociology at UPF Join @demosocupf.bsky.social as a Postdoc: 📊 Focus: Evaluating penal interventions in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain. 🗓️ Deadline: March 15th, 2026. www.upf.edu/web/politiqu...

'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'. New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic. We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.

PhD open call! www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

There are still places left for the upcoming LSE/UCL event 'Police and People in London - What's changed in 40 years'. Afternoon of the 6th March at LSE. Come along - it'll be fun! www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

JOB: Research Fellow, University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Full-time Research Fellow to work on a study to support implementation of ‘Healthy Dads Healthy Kids’ programme in Scottish #prisons. May also get opportunity to work on other Justice #Health topics. #CrimSky #Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO708/r...

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

Our Minimum Policing Standard research was featured on the podcast A Perspective on Crime. It covers new article “Should I Call the Police? Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities”. 🎧Listen to the episode: tr.ee/ynfj5UEHQJ

🚨 PhD funding opportunity 🚨 Fully funded PhD at @lawatleeds.bsky.social entitled “Joined up approaches to local emergency planning, preparedness, response and recovery”. Deadline: 17:00 GMT, Wednesday 11 March 2026 Read more and apply 👇 phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/454-...

Great opportunity to do a fully funded PhD through an ESRC White Rose Studentship. Working on a crucial area of policing adaptation to climate change, with great partners (and supervisors). 👇🏽 phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/454-...

Come and do a fully-funded 4-year PhD with me in Glasgow (and @thesccjr.bsky.social ) and Thomas Ugelvik as part of the Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe project. 😊. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc....

Why do we cooperate with the police & criminal courts?👩‍⚖️ In a new 30-country study, Jon Jackson, Jouni Kuha, @benbradford.bsky.social & Mike Hough find that fair & respectful authority usually beats crime control & fear – but procedural justice power varies by country 👉

Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused. This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/ Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...

Police are concerned about the amount of resources directed at mental health, and are not always the right agency to help. Our study aims to understand the nature of police contact with mental health and make recommendations for positive practice. vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/mental-healt...

I'm biased, but this looks like a brilliant job opportunity to me. Join us at the Department of Sociology & Nuffield College. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If so, then please consider applying to the LSE's inaugural criminology PhD Symposium: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

📢📢 Job advert 📢📢 LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026! 🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡 Applications due 2 November 2025 @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Fake shops set up by police in London to catch thieves selling stolen goods didn’t lead to any sustained reductions in theft offences, despite many arrests. ⚠️ This sort of sting also carries a substantial risk of backfiring by incentivising theft.

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite." www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oct... To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about: www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

👉"The compounding effect: how neighbourhood dynamics shape police deployment and use of force" Amal Ali, Jasmine Oware, @jacksojp.bsky.social, @benbradford.bsky.social show that calls for service are concentrated in disadvantaged neighbourhoods- where they're more likely to experience police force🚓

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Global review of research from 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺 finds almost all studies show no difference between the rates at which immigrants and local people commit crime, with only a few studies from 🇩🇪/🇮🇹 finding higher immigrant offending.

#AcademicWriting be like

🚨We are hiring 2 Lecturers/Assistant profs in Quant Social Science at UCL🚨 What we look for: 🐍 R/Python proficiency 🤖 Teaching and/or doing ML and/or social networks 🌍 Research on inequality, climate, education, social norms & more Circulate this or apply by 10-Oct 👉 tinyurl.com/5djcc35z

University of Surrey is hiring: Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching Track)

Thoughtful review of our recent paper in Policing & Society by San Gilmour. From our minimum policing standard research project @vp-centre.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social @davejrowlands.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/pulse/commun...

And more to come on this I hope!

New paper out in the BJC. We use longitudinal data from the MCS to assess unintended consequences of early exposure to policing. We find that being stopped by the police before age 14 may have implications for mental health, education, and offending in late adolescence doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

New pub in Policing and Society with Steven Pickering, Martin Ejnar Hansen and James Hunter doi.org/10.1080/1043... We looked at intersectional inequalities in trust in the police in England using a relatively new statistical approach, MAIHDA.

Quick reminder that I'll be teaching a course on longitudinal data analysis this summer in Manchester. Registration is still open!

The Falconer Commission on cannabis is likely to become viewed as a 'landmark' report on the subject. But this is not the first such report. Read about the history of 'landmark' cannabis inquiries here: tobyseddon.com/2025/05/28/l...

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

My first - and very possibly last - paper in a cultural sociology journal!

Please circulate this! We're looking for an Assistant Professor in Criminology. Closing date of the 4th April 2025. Details here: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

How victims of sexual violence are treated by the police can either lead them to withdraw from the process of prosecution, or affirm their dignity, agency and sense of justice, argue @jacksojp.bsky.social @katrinhohl.bsky.social and @benbradford.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

“This is not simply a crisis of prison capacity. Our overcrowded and violent prisons are breeding grounds for crime, while probation services are overstretched and under-resourced within the community." - @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social.

I’m sure this is great, but it’s not me appearing in it! Also nice to see another Ben B, mind ….

Becoming a Howard League member is the easiest way to get involved in our movement for change and make your voice heard. We are the world's oldest prison charity. We safeguard our independence and do not accept any funding from government. howardleague.org/mem...

@oxfordcrim.bsky.social has a three-year departmental lectureship while @ianloader.bsky.social is on leave. Please do consider applying. It's a great dept with wonderful students and a good balance of teaching and research time. Info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

And mine too!

This is really important work IMO - great to have been involved.

Re-posting as closing date (20th Feb) is looming: Please repost @patricksturg.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @closer-uk.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @sociologicalreview.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN135/p...

You beat me to it Liz!

Here’s an interesting finding about the process of sentence inflation experienced in E&W over the last couple of decades: for some offence groups, this process appears to be reflecting nothing more than attrition in the criminal justice system - i.e., only the most serious crimes make it to court.

This looks like a great opportunity for someone …

All children and adult survivors of child sexual abuse deserve better than being treated as a political football. This letter was from 2023, the need for responses to child sexual abuse to be survivor-centred, inclusive and evidence-based holds today.

One of those brilliant suggestions you read and think to yourself, 'Why on earth haven't I thought of or read about this idea before? It's so damned obvious!'

9th in our roundup of 2024's most read PQ journal articles is 'Trust in the Police: What is to be Done?' by @benbradford.bsky.social and Jonathan Jackson Read now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...