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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Sep 3

Not sure full riot police at the entrance is a good look for a criminology conference…

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Jun 24

The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.

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Professor Anna Vignoles @annavignoles.bsky.social · May 12

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Me talking about the value of higher education – for fear we may lose what we have failed to adequately value.

Different kinds of value, different kinds of higher education

For Anna Vignoles the value in higher education comes from the diversity and range of what it does, and may not be measurable in a single metric

wonkhe.com

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Tom Daems @eurocriminology.bsky.social · Mar 12

50 free e-copies via www.tandfonline.com/eprint/56EAB...

Victimization in Prison. A Study of Victimization and Prison Climate Dimensions in Belgian Prisons

Prisoner victimization introduces significant challenges to penal institutions worldwide. Researchers across the globe already provided extensive knowledge on risk factors from community crime theo...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Mar 12

Still accepting abstracts! :) let me know if you’d be keen to contribute.

Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 27

Criminology people with interest in experiences of families of people in prison!

I am keen to finally get this idea moving: an edited collection of chapters on stigma. Quite a lot to explore and lots of policy interest. Get in touch and pls share!

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma

Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma Editor: Anna Kotova Context: Stigma is a well-documented phenomenon within research on families of people in prison. ...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Mar 10

Also: “crime has subsided, but its memory hasn’t” might be the sentence that finally kills me.

Even if murder drops—at historic rates, to pre-pandemic levels, in one of the fastest drops in US history—it really didn’t, bc …

MEMORIES.

(And why do ppl still cling to these memories? WHY, MEDIA?!)

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · Mar 10

Five years on, Americans struggle under the oppression of their true antagonist: the Passive Voice

Theft
160 monthly thefts per 100,000
140
2016
2018
March 2020 2022
2024
Even crime found strange new patterns.
Murder surged, but with more people at home, thefts dipped before rising again.
Crime has since subsided, though its memory hasn't.

Measles vaccination rates among U.S. kindergartners
27
95%
Federal target
92%
2016
1
2018
2020
2022
2024
The national measles, mumps and rubella vaccination rate has steadily declined, driven down by missed doctors' appointments and growing mistrust in science and vaccines.

After-tax income
21
$60,000
American
— Rescue Plan enacted
2nd
1st stimulus _ check
$50,000
2016
2018
March 2020
2022
2024
Stimulus checks put thousands of dollars in Americans' pockets... for a while.

Federal spending on children
22
$800 billion
$600 billion
2016
2018
2020
2022
Spending on children surged: in the form of tax breaks, and subsidies for health care, food and education. But that, too, didn't last.

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Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social · Feb 27

Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them all, starting with our prologue:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · Feb 27

At a remote prison in Virginia, a number of incarcerated people are resorting to an extreme form of protest: they're setting themselves on fire. Jennifer Black and Noel Hanrahan of @prisonradio.bsky.social on what's driving these men to assert their humanity this way.

When Fire Is the Only Way Out - Inquest

At a far-flung prison in Virginia, conditions are so inhumane that those imprisoned there are setting themselves ablaze in protest—and to assert their humanity.

inquest.org

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 27

Thanks sounds amazing - I’ll get in touch!

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 27

@arkluge.bsky.social

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 27

@daria-przblsk.bsky.social @jananiu.bsky.social @elsebelle.bsky.social

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 27

Criminology people with interest in experiences of families of people in prison!

I am keen to finally get this idea moving: an edited collection of chapters on stigma. Quite a lot to explore and lots of policy interest. Get in touch and pls share!

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma

Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma Editor: Anna Kotova Context: Stigma is a well-documented phenomenon within research on families of people in prison. ...

docs.google.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 19

The Guardian view on the Gauke review: prison isn’t working | Editorial

Editorial: A performative ‘tough on crime’ approach by politicians has been both ineffective and ruinously expensive

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Feb 19

Punishment has been conflated with revenge. It’s myopic and counter-productive: we need to look beyond vengefulness when holding people accountable for the harms they have done.

@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social · Feb 18

Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons. My piece for @newstatesman.com on why our addiction to longer sentences is unsustainable.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons

Lazy “tough on crime” rhetoric has led to a crisis of overcrowding.

www.newstatesman.com

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Eva Wiseman @evawiseman.bsky.social · Feb 16

Did you know that women were being taken to prison ‘as a place of safety’? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Why are women still being sent to prison as ‘a place of safety’? | Eva Wiseman

Reports are revealing the true harm done by incarcerating women under the guise of protecting them, writes Eva Wiseman

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Jan 10

I’m just an academic asking job reference requests to come with a simple text box and not two pages of instructions and a requirement for two uploaded documents…

I have to write dozens of these. Take pity.

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Dr Anne-Marie Day @anne-marieday.bsky.social · Jan 7

Hi everyone, to kick off my maiden post please read our newly published paper in the BJC which argues for the abolition of all short term custodial sentences for children, and presents an alternative, viable, cost effective model @drkathyhampson.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales

Abstract. Children who offend generally receive community sentences, to help them overcome difficulties whilst naturally addressing offending behaviour; ho

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The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social · Jan 6

"Our prisons are so broken that we can't carry on. Politicians may disagree on how we fix the penal system, but everyone can agree that reform is needed."

Our Chief Executive, Andrea Coomber KC (Hon.), wrote an opinion piece for @bigissue.com: www.bigissue.com/opinion/pris...

We must seize the opportunity to fix our broken prisons

No one would disagree that the prison system is in crisis. The upcoming sentencing review presents us with a chance for real change.

www.bigissue.com

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Jan 4

My former PhD supervisee is hilarious. 😂

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Tom Daems @eurocriminology.bsky.social · Jan 4

A New Complaint System for Prisoners in Belgium - > chapter in Just Prisons - free to read via this link: rdcu.be/d5qcr

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

A New Complaint System for Prisoners in Belgium

This chapter introduces and reflects on the creation of a new complaint system in the prisons of Belgium. Since 1 October 2020, prisoners can file complaints with the newly created Complaint and Appea...

link.springer.com

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Dec 31

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Dec 31

How can Louboutins be simultaneously so gorgeous and so torturous to wear…

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Dec 31

Happy new year! May 2025 be happier, healthier and more productive than the last. May your dreams come true and the world be just a little bit kinder.

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thanks! It’s all good and resolving very quickly with treatment, luckily managed to get a private dermatology appointment to finally figure out what’s going on…

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · Dec 17

Thanks! Yes I saw a dermatologist who gave the correct treatment and I should be totally fine. :)

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