Fantastic news!

Why are the BBC giving the ‘reform’ party such a platform?

Parole Futures is published! A co-edited collection by me, @nicolacarr.bsky.social & Thomas Guiney featuring a world-leading panel of 27 experts from law, sociology, criminology and political science to explore pressing questions relating to parole. Full details: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parole-fu...

Many thanks to @bethweaver.bsky.social for our latest video with advice for the delivery of high-quality probation services, covering the importance of focusing on the person in front of you, being open to learning, and looking beyond the confines of contemporary probation practice shorturl.at/WRvUU

Are you curious about ‘working with #OpenAI’ in #Probation and #SocialWork contexts? Then you Might be intrested in our new guide launched by @scotssocialwork.bsky.social - socialworkscotland.org/reports/work...

activists aboard the Madleen believe their signal was intercepted by Israel and that the IOF is preparing to commit a war crime, but they are not stopping, they're determine to bring food to gaza. none of us have ever been this brave. keep the more eyes on the madleen the better. keep watching.

There's still time to apply for this p/t post on project comparing penal supervision across 5 nations. Working with great team @bethweaver.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @drhannahgraham.bsky.social @jakephillips.bsky.social Fern Gillon & Sarah Doxat-Pratt. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY924/r...

For those who love great dates - it’s 25/5/25

FREE TO ATTEND: 'Has Probation Been Rehabilitated?', 27th June 2025. This major research project has focussed on the experience of practitioners, managers and policy makers of the unification of the Probation Service. www.probation-institute.org/events/has-p... #probation

My most beloved Harvey Weaver died this morning while we are in Malta and I can’t begin to tell you the sorrow we feel. Bukowski: That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind..: I wonder where the living goes when it stops.

Everyone needs to read this book.

*Recommended Reading Alert* for all academics (not just #criminologists) gearing up for conference season Brill blog by @danicadarley.bsky.social Brittany Jackson and Holly Whyte on their experience of attending the BSC 2024 @unistrathclyde.bsky.social as non-academics thebscblog.wordpress.com

JOB: Research Fellow, a part-time post at University of Nottingham. Working with a wonderful team on comparative research: @nicolacarr.bsky.social (PI), Beth Weaver, Jake Phillips, Fergus McNeill, myself, Fern Gillon, Sarah Doxat-Pratt. #Criminology #Probation #Job www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY924/r...

Obviously! 🙄 Saves a trip to El Salvador presumably. Trump orders reopening of notorious Alcatraz prison www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy great date day! It’s 2/5/25 🤩

I fail to understand the rationale for refusing to resentence people serving IPP sentences. It’s absurd and unjust.

Spotted in London.

New survey findings show that experiences of racial discrimination have not decreased over the last decade, when placed alongside earlier studies, and that confidence in anti-discrimination efforts has continued to decline. @profkatsmith.bsky.social @lizaston.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social

Bringing the #WeaverLads to @bsky.app - the most attached and awesome bully brothers 🥰

This is also a straightforward case where you can clearly see that it is a staggering misuse of imprisonment. If this is the way we use such punishments there is little hope of reducing the absurd numbers we continue to keep behind bars.

Surviving #StormEowyn

From one Blue Sky to another. Good morning peeps 👋🏻

Snow and low Lying cloud over Goat fell #Arran this morning. Even the swans were heading towards the shore.

Another beautiful #Ardrossan sunset.

Sunset over #Ardrossan sea now.

Does anyone else love the numeric rhythm of today’s date?

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unison-sco... Free 1 hr lunchtime event this Weds. Join us for a critical & radically inspired discussion on Justice Services in social work. Great speakers! Please pass on.

@bethweaver.bsky.social - nearly 200 signed up! Looking forward to this....

Looking forward to seeing the outcome of this. It's been a great piece of work to be a (small) part of!

We are new to bluesky so asking all those who followed the campaign on “X” to continue supporting our campaign for #justice #jointenterprise is #badlaw that targets the vulnerable.

Join me for this lunchtime webinar where I will discuss how the public actually quite like social workers, and ask the important question: why don't you believe me?? Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00 - 13:00 GMT. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-social...

I’m reliably told I need to use hashtags to flag this #criminaljustice #starterpack Intended to cover those working in & around the criminal justice system (lawyers, NGOs, commentators…) Please do share - and let me know if you want to be included? 🙏 go.bsky.app/2sQ9xmz

At @nextchapterscot.bsky.social we’re building a starter pack for people with (or interested in) lived experience of the criminal justice system. Please throw me your recommendations. #criminaljustice #livedexperience #criminology #humanrights

My Blog for @BritSocCrim on the research I presented in Glasgow earlier this year on the pathways of girls in and out of Juvenile Institutions for ‘criminal’ and ‘at risk’ girls & how it can inform present-day juvenile justice. thebscblog.wordpress.com #Crimehistory #criminology

Well the headline says it all!

I'm probably just yelling into the void but anyway I'll observe that "prisoners walk free" isn't very helpful as a (putatively neutral BBC) summary of some people being released on licence, supervised with specific conditions, electronically tagged, at 40% point rather than 50% point of sentence.

If this isn’t the whole point of social media then I don’t know what is. 👇🏼

This thread, sparked off by the PhD funding opportunities at www.sgsss.ac.uk, is now complete with a list of members of the Criminology subject team inviting applications in the replies. #PhDChat #PhDfunding #Criminology #Edinburgh #Scotland #ESRC

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams tonight around 6 PM. "Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue,” The Midwest Innocence Project said in a statement.

A starter pack of accounts relevant to #Criminology bsky.app/profile/did:...