🚗 From joyriding in 1980s Ireland to AI-enhanced traffic stops, the #Cars and #Crime Symposium brought together leading thinkers on topics such as #drink-driving, #speeding, and #policing. 🔗Explore how this symposium reshaped understandings of safety, urban life, and justice.👇 tinyurl.com/mwtrttr2

It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...

We’re delighted to open our final Early Career Researcher Development Fund. This is a vulnerability and policing open call with £25,000 available for 12-month projects. Deadline: Monday 29 September 2025, 4pm BST vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career...

Good to see this article is now out in print. Worth checking out if you're into historical criminology, regulation or white collar/business crime. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

'Measuring sentence inflation England & Wales', with @sentencingacademy.bsky.social We estimate that 87% of the increase in sentence severity experienced over the last 2 decades is due to a genuine change in the sentencing practice (sentence inflation). www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...

Hello hello New job in business law at @lawatleeds.bsky.social Come and work with me and other high calibre individuals! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR107/l...

The dataset from my project on illicit alcohol 1780-1914 is now available here doi.org/10.5518/1290. It includes criminal justice, licensing, tax and mortality data. Should be useful for people interested crime history and alcohol policy

We are delighted to announce that Prof. @jpinasanchez.bsky.social will deliver the fifth of the 2024-25 Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lectures! 📅30 Jan 2025 🕔5pm 🏫University of Leeds Follow the link for more info and registration: ow.ly/7TG750UAUO3

Ok, I've started a crime history starter pack, hmu to be added! go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw

Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know! go.bsky.app/4zgBneK

"Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in England and Wales: Taking Stock and Moving Forward" 📅 Date: 14th November ⏰ Time: 12:00 to 14:30 The event is fully booked, but you can still join us online for the academic presentations! Watch the live broadcast here: lse.zoom.us/j/8695370919...

What is the Excise and why does it matter to criminology? Great to see this published. It’s a paper I’ve been stewing on for years and, with help from the Leverhulme Trust, it’s finally done. It uses the history of the British Excise to argue that... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I'm doing an inaugural professorial lecture in Leeds on the 23rd October. All are welcome so please come along if you're interested. #criminology #historicalcriminology #alcoholstudies #alcohol

Hello bluesky! Thought I'd give this place a try. Mostly posting about historical criminology and alcohol. Please follow if interested.