Article Out! Exploring psychological and relational challenges to desistance from gang crime. Interviews with incarcerated youths and staff highlight how internalized disbelief of current options and safe/meaningful futures permeates the narrative among staff, youths and society at large.
Man with short light brown hair wearing a dark jacket outdoors with blurred trees in the background.
Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, gave this year’s Howard League Lecture, with the title ‘Rehabilitation and Penal Reform’.
Read the lecture here: https://howardleague.org/blog/the-2025-howard-league-lecture-held-in-memory-of-lord-parmoor/
Halloween is saved! 👻🎃🧛♀️
I'm sure Nicola did the book proud! More details about this edited collection, Parole Futures, available here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parole-fu...
Let us (the #British) be honest. If your major #politics proposal involves the mass deportation of 'others' on the basis of cultural cohesion... you're trying to legitimate a form of ethnic cleansing!
In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life!
#UKPolitics
I finally got around to turning what started as a presentation at ESC in Florence a couple of years ago into an article in CMC! 🥳
Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)
#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography
Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here:
www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...
Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza
#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect
Comments in link below
New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...
📘 Not sure when a conviction is “spent”?
Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.
💡 Clear steps, less stress.
👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025
#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure
This is such a profoundly bad move by the #EuroCrim2025 organisers/Board.
Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.
People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.
I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.
#ESC2025
My PhD research 'Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales' is now available online!
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
All set up for #EuroCrim2025 or #EuroCrim25. Come and say hello if you want to talk #criminology publishing. I can also talk about music, movies and books.
UK - More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women.
Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US military spending is the reason Americans can’t have nice things like free healthcare.
“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social
The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...
"Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars: Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948); Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population;"
BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)
I'm an associate professor 🤯🎓💐 #criminology
Important information for anyone attending the European Society of Criminology in Athens and for members of ESC. Petition outlines serious concerns. Consider what you can do to support 👇👇 👇#eurocrim
Norway’s parliamentary elections are coming up. As in many other European countries, the right is focusing on immigration and crime. But Norway remains a remarkably prosperous, diverse, and safe society. Rarely have the right’s talking points seemed more unreal.
This is my pile of books to take to the ESC conference in Athens next week. I honestly don't think they will all fit, so apologies in advance.... Looking forward to hitting the road again and talking #criminology with current and future authors and editors.
🚨I'm very excited to announce the launch of my report: Release from long-term imprisonment. This report is based on a new empirical study I conducted last year into the release experiences of people who have served very long prison sentences.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...
Screenshot of the new report cover, in dark navy blue and purple hues, saying 'Access to Justice for Prisoners: The Complaints System.'
As part of their Access to Justice spotlight series, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published a new report 'exposing serious failings in the way complaints are handled in Scotland’s prisons.'
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...
Lucky they only shuffled *all of them* 👀
📖 Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, & Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander is now on our YouTube page.
@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social
youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...
📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...
Applications are open for PhD students at Stockholm Uni's Dept of Criminology. Four years of full time research! In a vibrant research environment. Dream up your project and apply via the link.
📕Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson @spookademic.bsky.social & Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social
Commentators: @fergusmcneill.bsky.social & @margueritesch.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
🗓️ 11 June, 1pm (UK time)
📌 Online
🔻Register bit.ly/3HdaR89
