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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 2d

Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.

The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 2d

We highly recommend this: www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Free Palestine!

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

www.versobooks.com

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 2d

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read

Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press

This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider live...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 2d

We highly recommend this: www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Free Palestine!

Resisting Erasure

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...

www.versobooks.com

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 4d

Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
@pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

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britsoccrim.bsky.social @britsoccrim.bsky.social · 11d

Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 12d

Forever Young melts me everytime. Lucky students having you back in the room.

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 12d

You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.

Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 13d

There are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings:
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 14d

So exhausting..

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 13d

There are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings:
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 14d

So exhausting..

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 15d

“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...

Challenging Conceptions of “Borders” and “Race”: Q&A with E. Tendayi Achiume

E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science, comes to the Institute from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the international le...

www.ias.edu

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 20d

Worth a look

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 20d

pmpress.org.uk/product/ingr...

Ingrid Schubert: Letters from Prison 1970–1977

As a member of the Red Army Faction, Ingrid’s letters reveal the daily struggle of a political prisoner resisting repression.

pmpress.org.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 20d

This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...

Love, Class and Empire

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Love, Class and Empire

www.cambridge.org

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21d

UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 23d

We need to be very clear about this.

Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.

humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all

Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...

humanists.uk

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Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · 25d

Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC One - Morning Live

Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social · Jan 13

Great research co-authored by one of our Liverpool PhD students

Lilly Crellin @lillycrellin.bsky.social · Nov 21

Just published! 📢 Who’s in Prison and What’s the Purpose of Imprisonment?

The Sentencing Academy’s latest report reveals that public understanding of the prison population is limited, with many unsure about who’s in prison or why.

Read it here: www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

www.sentencingacademy.org.uk

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Feb 9

1/7 Why Trump & Musk are More Like Rhodes & Verwoerd Than Hitler & Mussolini:

It’s only natural to cast back into history for extremist figures who prefigured Musk & Trump. Hitler & Mussolini are the obvious ones.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Feb 11

A fascinating talk from Gary Younge last night at @sussexuni.bsky.social. Exploring Black people’s experiences of Nazi Germany, he spoke brilliantly of the different ‘languages’ of racism in different national & historical contexts. His obligation to clarify that …

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

Award-winning author and broadcaster Gary Younge In Conversation at Sussex on 10 February

Gary will be discussing what the experiences of Black Germans in Nazi Germany tell us about systems of racial oppression

www.sussex.ac.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Feb 12

‘The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. They remind us that the imagination is not an optional extra.’

Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?

Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Feb 19

Oscar Wilde, still 1 of the best on #prison

"Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done. When the man’s punishment is over ... it abandons him ..."
#Criminology

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lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social‬ talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice

📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2

@jkoehler.bsky.social

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is my mid-week gig! All welcome

lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · Jun 9

Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social‬ talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice

📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2

@jkoehler.bsky.social

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Jun 2

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…

Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with | Samuel Earle

Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle

www.theguardian.com

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · May 14

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sycamore Gap tree duo do not belong in prison | Letters

Letters: Two men convicted of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree should face a punishment that fits the crime, not jail, writes Dr Rod Earle. Plus letters from Matt Powell, Shayne Mary Mitchell and Mi...

www.theguardian.com

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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · Apr 28

“Claiming stun guns will make prisons safer is perverse. A debate about violence and safety must include state violence against prisoners and the shocking death rate in prisons, up to 399 deaths in the year to March 2025, an increase of 37%.”

@debcoles13.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social

Stun guns won’t bring an end to violence in prisons | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to an article by former prison officer Alex South, in which she says the weapons might keep staff and inmates safe

www.theguardian.com

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Apr 24

Check this out! Essential and timely and Open Access. Building an effective anti racist politics has always been an urgent priority and has never been easy. This really helps manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169662/

Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left

Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Apr 15

One of my very favourite versions of a very fine song. Take a listen. Two or three years old now and better every time.

happypeoplerecords1.bandcamp.com/track/mumma-...

(Mumma Was A) Bankrobber, by Happy People Records

from the album Perkie & The Co-operators - (Mumma was a) Bankrobber 7"

happypeoplerecords1.bandcamp.com

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Apr 8

Shocked. And saddened to read this. The OU can do better than this.
insidetime.org/newsround/th...

The OU’s second-class students: investigation

The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars across the UK. However, those hoping to continue learning after release …

insidetime.org

Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · Apr 2

Good news is in short supply but I’d like to congratulate the very wonderful Dr Bill Davies on his promotion to Reader, the best of all academic titles. Bill and I have worked together on convict criminology in the UK since day 1. He is so modest about his achievements.

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Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social · Apr 2

Fab opportunity to work with great people 👇👇👇

Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social · Apr 2

3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...

Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

jobs.sussex.ac.uk

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