🚨 New assistant prof job posting at LSE with a focus on crime and criminal justice jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

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The School of Law and Criminology is delighted to welcome Dr. R. V. Gundur who has joined Maynooth University as an Assistant Professor in Criminology. Welcome R.V.! See: tinyurl.com/mr2zuame @ravejudgerun.com

This crew are supporting Stevie Wonder at Hyde Park today. Deeply tempting. Unsure that energy levels allow. We’ll see. Would be more likely if I wasn’t on the road tomorrow

Honestly, how good would be Piazza Plaza?

I co-authored a piece on running fieldworkers with my friend Hamid Azizi.. Collecting Data in Forbidden Places: Reflections on Gaining Access, Mitigating Risks, and Managing Fieldworkers in Geopolitically Sensitive and Precarious Situations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Rest in power to the original rhythm king, Sly Stone. His influence over me and the world of music will never be matched.

What’s driving down #Chicago murder numbers? Some experts point to “community violence intervention.” For @WBEZ.org, I took a ride-along on the West Side to see how street outreach workers are trying to stop the next shooting. www.wbez.org/public-safet...

Slick has been given a reprint --now with a fancy sticker on the cover. If you want to understand Why We Are Like This on climate change, or read about things like that one time the oil and gas industry spied on the son of a prime minister, and you haven't picked up a copy, now's your chance!

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

This made my day when I saw it. My article 'Gendering Postcolonial Penality', on the religious detention of women in post-independence Ireland, drawing on how Magdalen laundries and other sites were a shadow penal system in a process of nation formation with a new domestic enemy - women.

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/...

I've been reading books together with my neighbor, aged 11. It's the first time I've ever done something like this. We go a little at a time, but man has it been fun!

Our latest article, “Male victim-survivor views on the criminalisation of coercive control in Australia”, has just been published. We explore male victim-survivor views on the criminalisation of coercive control, including perceived risks and benefits. Read via www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

And here it is among friends... 5 books based on theses I have been fortunate enough to supervise @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social Mihail Petkov @dralimalik.bsky.social @thelauram16.bsky.social @frasoliman.bsky.social

The Taliban’s Drug Trade Revenue and Taxation System: What the Experts Know w/ Hamid Azizi [open access] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👉 This is an important issue of The Criminologist. It contains five pieces about academic publishing in our field, three of which involve #Criminology. The final essays by @SJacques83 on #OpenAccess and by Deena Isom on the #PeerReview crisis are also terrific. 👏 asc41.org/wp-content/u...

RIP to @nj.com reporter Matt Arco. Thanks for holding our elected officials, gov't entities, and other powers that be accountable. I enjoyed reading his columns over the years. Here's one of my favorites. Notice how detailed and thorough it is. www.nj.com/politics/201...

Just a reminder to vote early, vote often - including the People's Choice category at the NSW Literary Awards.

Slick's up for an award at the 2025 NSW Literary Awards and there is a People's Choice category. If any of you out there want to support my work, or just want to make an oil executive sad, consider throwing me a vote. Takes two secs and cut off is 7 May: form.typeform.com/to/iRmKIe8U?...

Had a fun session with Prof. Christian Bolden at Loyola NOLA where I spoke about my book and hosted Margarito Flores, Jr for a conversation with Prof. Bolden's students. If anyone would like me to do a guest spot on the drug trade, and assign my book, I'm happy to do it!

Weird to see American politicians playing the greatest hits of Australian political leaders from the last decade.

Thank you @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for the opportunity to write for Democracy for Sale about our @oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne book #IndulgingKleptocracy.

"In June last year Robert Barr, a member of the lobby group Nuclear for Climate, told the ABC that rooftop solar would need to make way for nuclear. “I think what will happen is that nuclear will just tend to push out solar,” he said."

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

🚨New article alert with Chief Sarkos of the Atlantic City PD: "An Evaluation of a Major Expansion in Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Technology" (open access). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My first @theconversation.com piece with @drmarkberry.bsky.social: Money laundering plays a key role in every part of the illegal drugs industry – here’s how it works theconversation.com/money-launde...

I spoke to DrKarl for his podcast, Shirtloads of Science, about my latest book Slick that investigates what the Australian oil and gas industry new about climate change, and how it worked to ensure we didn't do much about it. I have a deep respect for Dr Karl, so was quite nervous but it was fun!

Just published 🎉 Our #realistreview on #police #stopandsearch has just been published in the European Journal of Criminology. Conducted during my PhD research with my brilliant supervisors @drcaitlinhughes.bsky.social @profalexstevens.bsky.social Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

With the #wildfires raging in California, this is prime pickings for scams. My student, Dean Taodang, and I wrote about that fraud a couple of years ago: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #fraud #cybercrime

I've noticed quite a few people resharing my tutorial on how to find and see fires from space, especially in relation to the devastating fires in Los Angeles. For those that want to learn how to do this, the YouTube link is below youtu.be/rxxgRZptt-c?...

18 years later, nearly very major internet service provider has throttled specific content on the infrastructure our tax dollars paid for. T-Mobile, for example, doesn't charge users for data when music is streamed on Spotify, but does when it's streamed on Qobuz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVz...

Happy Finals Week to all those who celebrate!

Loud and clear

A series of dead and dying native birds and flying foxes found over two months across the South Australian town of Port Pirie were killed by lead poisoning, raising concerns of a public health risk - but the EPA won't be undertaking further investigations. New from me in The Guardian.

Thanks for the new follows. I'm going to post more about music and occasionally about the work that I do as a scholar of illicit enterprise. As I'm grading papers, I've really enjoyed Etude no. 3 by Nicolas Bernier and Jacques Poulin-Denis. nicolasbernier.bandcamp.com/album/tude-n...

I've been listening to Julian Klaas's Impromptu over and over again over the past month. The music makes me feel like I'm in a fantasy novel. It's a delightful set of piano instrumentals that I find relaxing and interesting with every listen: julianklaas.bandcamp.com/album/improm...

Hi Folks. Thanks for the follow. I am a criminologist who specializes in illicit enterprise. I wrote a book on the drug trade called Trying to Make It. I'm going to probably post about my work, music interests, and hobby photos moving forward. Below is a snap I took of the Icelandic countryside.

Margarito Flores Jr visited with my class today. Had a great discussion regarding his life, what incarceration does, how to run a business, and so much more.

Dikembe Mutombo. What a man: a person who embodied the concept of role model. A great basketball player who was always a favorite player despite never playing on my favorite teams, a greater humanitarian. What a legacy. May his memory be a blessing.

My book Trying to Make It has been in the wild for 2 years. Thankful for a nice review in Theoretical Criminology, which I've added to my website: ravejudgerun.com/media-and-praise. To celebrate I'd like to send a copy of my book (physical or audio) to someone who reposts this!

My book Trying to Make It has been in the wild for 2 years. Thankful for a nice review in Theoretical Criminology, which I've added to my website: ravejudgerun.com/media-and-praise. To celebrate I'd like to send a copy of my book (physical or audio) to someone who reposts this!

James Earl Jones, actor, 1931-2024 https://www.ft.com/content/f0394480-9e79-447f-9ec2-4d8fae2907fe

I strongly suggest you support your local bookshop and pre-order now -- some are listed in this thread -- but if you can't for reasons, you can get a copy online either by heading to the website linked below or direct from UQP here: www.uqp.com.au/books/slick

Shel Silverstein doesn’t get nearly enough credit for predicting ChatGPT.

Virtual Currency, Cryptoassets, and Cybercrime with Tessa Cole: doi.org/10.1093/acre...