If you’re an academic criminologist who doesn’t automatically make all your work #OpenAccess, please take 10 minutes to read this short article by Scott Jacques on why you absolutely should be: doi.org/10.21428/cb6...

📌 Call for interview participants 📌 We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.

Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

I am conducting a study of probation practitioner wellbeing. So if you are a probation practitioner in England and Wales, or know others that are, please consider completing the survey (and sharing it) below. Many thanks. huddersfieldbss.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Today, YEF publishes our "Education Policy, Children and Violence" report. 8 affordable, deliverable policy, inspection and regulation changes that will reduce violence. Full report here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ... Summary below 👇

The BJC have just published this review symposium of our book "The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below! #AcademicSky #Criminology doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

Just out! If you’re into #criminology , #lifecourse & linking individual lives with macro-structures, this might be for you! We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example. #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The long-awaited evaluation of Project ADDER is now out, and makes fascinating reading for all with a concern for illicit drug problems in England and Wales. A thread: 1/? ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-adder-impact-evaluation/project-adder-impact-evaluation#key-findings

EVENT: What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services? Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...

A short blog about my research exploring the relationship between school exclusions and offending

Fantastic opportunity to do a fascinating PhD with 2 brilliant and supportive supervisors

I’m looking to appoint two PhD students for two funded projects exploring the intersection of #DigitalTechnologies, #AI and #FinancialCrime. We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged. Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology doi.org/10.1027/2151...

Im MDR aktuell Podcast konnte ich über Kriminalität und Kriminalitätswahrnehmung in Deutschland sprechen: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions. journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

For non-UK academics out there, here is a list of UK universities making job/degree programme cuts. I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Out in January! www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...

Come and do a PhD supervised by me! (or my Royal Holloway colleagues) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW355/p...

Reminder - call for papers closing tomorrow - The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University. The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...

Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room? Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic. open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services) #Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy 1/2

📢 New policy insights “How to Halve Violence Against Women and Girls”. Essential reading for policymakers and researchers. @profdavidgadd.bsky.social, Dr Caroline Miles, Prof Barry Godfrey. Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry... #VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology

For my first post in this new world, I am pleased to share a paper just published in Theoretical Criminology - Beyond 'police discretion'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice. I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us. I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...

New from @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social, Rosie Shorrocks and me on the gender gap at the 2024 UK GE. We find that the gender gap looked different at this election, shifting from a Lab/Con gap to a broader left-right gap. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University. The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...

Lord Timpson up before the House of Commons Justice Committee tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2.30 pm Watch it here www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

The @vp-centre.bsky.social Early Career Research Development Fund supports UK based researchers to pursue innovative collaborative research in the field of vulnerability & policing - the current call is open. Deadline 13 January 2025. 👇🏽 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/early-c...

Call for Papers: Addressing the Needs of Those Experiencing Mental Illness in the Probation Services, Special Edition of British Journal of Community Justice. Please share. mailchi.mp/faa3853715ba...

Welcome to the Bluesky feed for our three-year ESRC funded project, Rehabilitating Probation. See our website rehabilitating-probation.org.uk to learn more about our research, read our work, and to listen to our podcasts.

Follow our analysis of #Election2024 on the Sky News live blog here... news.sky.com/story/us-ele...

We’ve an author meets critics session at the Am Soc Crim conference in Nov on this book. Message me for details. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

This'll be out soon. We assess if Pearson was correct in assertion that there was a 'new' type of heroin user who emerged in the 1980s. www.routledge.com/Unequal-Secu...

If you're interested in desistance, and esp. the primary, secondary and tertiary distinctions, you might be interested in this paper which Emily Gray & I wrote recently, and which introduces and explores empirically the concept of quaternary desistance. www.kicj.re.kr/board.es?mid...

Calling philosophers and cognitive scientists. Six, four year postdocs available at the University of Stirling for interdisciplinary work on place and memory with John Sutton. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

📢✨️ JOBS: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (× 6 positions) at University of Stirling 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A 4 year #postdoc contract as part of a new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, funded by Leverhulme. #Sociology #Anthropology #Philosophy #Politics #AcademicSky #academia www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJP269/p...

Some good research highlights around just now. 1) What does British Identity encompass? 30 years of British Social Attitudes Data. natcen.ac.uk/publications...

Our latest pre-registred meta-analysis protocol: 'What is the external validity of #sentencing research? A multi-level #meta-analysis of offenders’ race and gender' osf.io/xavdr I will be presenting some preliminary results next week at #EUROCRIM, hope to see some of you there. #criminology

It's not too late to sign up to Collective Punishment's first online event, which is tomorrow at 6pm. Collective Punishment's purpose is to raise awareness and create change for those impacted by parental imprisonment. www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-...

A cracking paper Dave (and Rose)! "When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The Unravelling of the UK’s Modern Slavery Agenda" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....