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shadd maruna
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Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25d
I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29d
Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.
E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Sep 12
Conor Gearty was, without hesitation, the best academic writer I’ve read. He was also a thoroughly decent and kind human being who fearlessly used his position speak truth to power.
Conor did law, politics and academia the right way and he will be sorely missed.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · Sep 9
One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience.
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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · Aug 30
Spot on!
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · Aug 25
Great headline. tsunami of lies. Death of the truth. Awful.
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MSNBC Reports @msnbcreports.msnbc.com · Aug 25
President Trump signed an exec order aimed at eliminating cashless bail in D.C., and in other jurisdictions in the U.S. with similar policies.

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Trump issuing 'tsunami of lies' to create 'police state' in U.S.: Daily Beast columnist
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C., and in other jurisdictions around the nation with similar policies. NBC News' Ya...
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · Aug 25
So counterproductive and, frankly, stupid

Cashless bail reduces crime. Pretrial incarceration causes more crime than pretrial detention prevents

Also, why should only people with money have access to mercy?

www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...
Scoop: Trump plans executive order to end "cashless bail" in D.C.
It's the latest step in the Trump-driven federal takeover of the capital city's law enforcement.
www.axios.com
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MSNBC Reports @msnbcreports.msnbc.com · Aug 25
President Trump signed an exec order aimed at eliminating cashless bail in D.C., and in other jurisdictions in the U.S. with similar policies.

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Trump issuing 'tsunami of lies' to create 'police state' in U.S.: Daily Beast columnist
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at eliminating cashless bail for suspects arrested in Washington, D.C., and in other jurisdictions around the nation with similar policies. NBC News' Ya...
www.msnbc.com
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · Aug 25
Chicago had the lowest number of homicides since 1962 last month. Just remember this for whatever happens next.

Listen to: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses Trump's threat to deploy National Guard - one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5514...
🔊 Listen Now: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses Trump's threat to deploy National Guard
Morning Edition on NPR One | 5:34
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · Aug 25
And we are hearing the same nonsense about London and other UK cities being overrun by crime and bedlam too. Social media culture allows for moral panics on steroids.
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · Aug 25
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of crime exaggerating the statistical risks is a constant of surveys over my 79 year life. Media and right wing politicians have much to answer for. And repairing broken windows
is good. Better still is socioeconomic policy enhancing security and welfare
Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat
The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel
www.theguardian.com
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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Aug 25
so it’s tyranny then?
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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · Aug 25
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of crime exaggerating the statistical risks is a constant of surveys over my 79 year life. Media and right wing politicians have much to answer for. And repairing broken windows
is good. Better still is socioeconomic policy enhancing security and welfare
Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat
The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel
www.theguardian.com
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 23
JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 23
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Aug 23
By all means, let’s believe the heinous sex offender who lies like she breathes. Todd Blanche is shameful for conducitng this idiotic inquiry designed only to protect Trump www.thedailybeast.com//cackling-ma...
Cackling Maxwell Smears Prince Andrew’s Accuser on DOJ Tape
The convicted child sex offender dismissed allegations against Prince Andrew for jaw-dropping reasons.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 22
Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social, @debcoles13.bsky.social & me
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Why Shabana Mahmood’s outlook on prisons is wrong | Letter
Letter: The justice secretary has not understood many of the issues surrounding the prisons crisis, say Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Aug 11
On @BBC today Trump’s takeover of the D.C. police & deployment of National Guard in response to a non-existent “emergency” was discussed by @washingtonpost.com editor @francesssellers.bsky.social w/a (fact-free) focus on crime & homelessness. Nothing on Trump’s racism or authoritarianism.
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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jul 31
Hey #Criminology

It lives!

29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics

It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)

#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, jus...
www.routledge.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jul 30
Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulation
Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulation
The agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused "years of uncertainty for automakers."
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · Jul 27
Just learned that Mike Johnson, before coming to Congress claimed to be the Dean of a law school named after a pedophile. Which may explain a few things. Notably…
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · Jul 13
mandy patinkin & his family gave a powerful interview, and this part, phewww
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Dr Oscar @droscaro.bsky.social · Jul 8
*Another* heatwave arrives this week and it could be the most intense yet. But prisons are ill-prepared to protect prisoners & staff from environmental harm.

✍️ A new paper examines indoor environmental conditions across multiple prisons

❌ It’s not good.

www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/stale-and-st...
Stale and Still | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · Jul 5
Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives
Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners.
www.nbcnews.com
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · Jun 27
Looking forward to this one…
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Dr Ed Schreeche-Powell @schreeche.bsky.social · Jun 27
Coming soon………

Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison: Pains, Power and Peer Support
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Dr Ed Schreeche-Powell @schreeche.bsky.social · Jun 27
Coming soon………

Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison: Pains, Power and Peer Support
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Robbie Armstrong @robbiejourno.bsky.social · Jun 2
The podcast @crmnlgy.bsky.social and I made is in the Guardian today!

Listen to Young Warriors here: open.spotify.com/show/1KLXLNF...
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · Apr 24
Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...
Lecturer - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Discover Lecturer - Grade 7 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social · Apr 23
Better late than never. I hope
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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Nov 16
Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.
Under con- ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.
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