QUB Criminology

Are you interested in understanding and preventing child criminal exploitation (CCE) or testing new community violence prevention interventions? Come on work with us @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social !

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Great idea to colocate justice and child and adolescent mental health services ⬇️

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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Still a few weeks to respond to Dept Justice NI consultation on simplifying court ordered disposals for children. If you work with children, please encourage them to respond @slsshub.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social

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Exploited Children Need Help, Not Handcuffs - Queen's Policy Engagement The latest in a series of articles on raising the age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland by Megan Phair from Invisible Traffick.

Our Youth Justice Student and Project Co-Ordinator at Invisible Traffik adds to the call to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in N.Ireland @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social

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Very exciting to have @louisebrangan.bsky.social at our ICCJ seminars at the end of this month! Join us on the 28 of May in the School of Social Sciences if you wished to know about Magdalene Laundries 🔔📣 @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Thanks so much to EA youth services for facilitating space for some of @qubcriminology.bsky.social for a time out. Reflecting on research, impact and future directions

Interested in postgraduate study in Children Rights or Youth Justice? Join our live webinar on 9th May 15.00-16.00 to find out about the courses we offer at QUB. Register here - www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
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DOJ Anticrime Grant Cuts Prompting Layoffs, Program Closures A deaf mother trying to escape her abusive husband came to a domestic violence shelter but couldn’t communicate fluently with American Sign Language. Shelter workers contacted Activating Change, a …

“To say, ‘We’re going to cut programs that protect people from bias, that help people with opioid addiction, that keep guns off our streets’ — it’s irresponsible, it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s going to get people killed.” crimjj.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/d...

Good luck Kelly!

We had a few intense days engaging with the important work of Maximo Sozzo on southernizing and decolonizing criminology at the ICCJ @qubcriminology.bsky.social

🥁 Spaces are filling up quickly! To register for the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice annual lecture, see link below ⬇️

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the QUB ICCJ Annual Lecture is going to be delivered by Prof Maximo Sozzo (University of Santa Fe, Argentina)

“Punishment and Authoritarianism in Latin America: a palimsepstic perspective”

6th March, 4 pm in the Great Hall

sign up here: shorturl.at/IodBC

Landmark study reveals widespread impact of childhood trauma in Northern Ireland “For the first time, the true extent of childhood trauma and its impact on all people in Northern Ireland has been documented and measured for all to see.”

Interested in ACEs, violence, conflict and outcomes? Check out our prevalence study launched today:

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