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europeangroup.bsky.social
The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
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Established in Europe but today an international network for academics, practitioners, and activists working towards social justice, state accountability and decarceration. See https://www.european-group.org/
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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 6d
🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.

Por Mar Sala.
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 6d
"Opposition to the construction of a new multimillion-dollar police training facility is most immediately connected to confrontation with policing, corrupted city finances, and antidemocratic municipal processes". www.e-flux.com/journal/143/...
Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform - Journal #143
T. J. Demos on the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.
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Dave @redskyforge.bsky.social · 9d
Starmer’s United Kingdom
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 9d
Arrested/not arrested:
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 9d
The prices are higher. The summers are hotter. The wind is stronger, the wage weaker, and fires kindle more easily. Tornados rove like avenging angels through the cities on the plain. Something has changed. Plagues burn deep in the blood. illwill.com/theory-of-th...
Theory of the Party • Ill Will
Phil A. Neel on the invariant features of communist revolutionary organization.
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Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · 16d
One rule for them and another for everyone else.
In this new blog Justice, Power and Resistance author Trancey Davanna discusses the 'criminal justice' response to #FoxHunting
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 19d
Tracey Davanna discusses how The Hunt Saboteurs Association exposes the violence, privilege, and state complicity surrounding illegal #FoxHunting, highlighting how direct action is often the only means of holding powerful rural elites to account: buff.ly/ybi37f8
How fox hunting demonstrates the ‘farcical’ nature of criminal justice today - Transforming Society
Tracey Davanna, co-editor of 'Policing in Crisis?', discusses how The Hunt Saboteurs Association exposes the violence, privilege, and state complicity surrounding illegal fox hunting, highlighting…
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 23d
english.elpais.com/internationa.... Athletes, artists, academics: all workers are called to stand in solidarity against the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of its people, in every classroom, on every stage, and in every workplace.”
Madrid turns final stage of Vuelta cycling race into a demonstration against Israel
‘It shows it’s possible to force our governments to completely sever relations with Israel,’ said organizers. Authorities estimate that over 100,000 people showed up
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · 29d
Extending colonialism: extrajudicial killings, torture & enforced disappearances perpetrated by Indonesian security forces in which British investors & British companies are intensely implicated ...
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 29d
Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua.

Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.

Read the report here 👇👇👇

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 8
Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people | Decolonization of Criminology and Justice
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Get the ”No mine in Gállok” book | KOLONIERNA
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 7
This week we recommend: "No mine in Gállok: Ecocide and colonialism in Swedish-occupied Sápmi". A book about "the questionable promises of a so-called Green Transition based on colonial land grabbing and environmental degradation, and issues related to the nature of capitalist civilization..." Link👇
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Luis Othoniel Rosa @luisothonielrosa.bsky.social · Aug 26
My latest is “Strategies of Invisibility (For Repressive Times)” You can get in English, Spanish and French right here: thefunambulist.net/.../strategi... . And check out @thefunambulist.bsky.social for discovering amazing thinkers and artists pushing our horizons of political possibility.
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Fundación de los Comunes @fundacomunes.bsky.social · Jul 10
#CursosOtoño2025 #AulaVirtual

🔥LA SUBVERSIÓN DE LAS PALABRAS
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🔥GEOGRAFÍAS DE LA ABOLICIÓN II
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 4
Also, please consider submitting an abstract for a post-conference special issue of the journal Justice, Power and Resistance. You can find the full call for papers through @bupjournals.bsky.social at bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 4
It was such an incredible pleasure to see you all at the Group’s conference in Malmö. A true abolitionist earthquake, a space to flourish, think, organise, conspire and act against the global punitive culture! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · Sep 3
Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.

We demand their immediate release.

Read our statement here 👇👇

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · Sep 1
Another excellent @europeangroup.bsky.social conference this year in Malmö: programme packed with critical and radical voices and clear commitment in support of Palestine. Grateful for the kind and attentive audience listening to my and @dinesson.bsky.social's paper on zemiology of counterterrorism
A woman standing in front of a screen showing a presentation titled "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism".
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Aug 20
Call from Palestinian Scholars to boycott the European Society of Criminology #EuroCrim2025
Link below
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 21
The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely
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Demand action from the ESC: petition to end complicity
We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...
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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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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 13
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 13
Please consider a donation and do take a moment to forward this message
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requires match funding Pledges for its Casework and support of beavered families campaign before the pledge deadline on 29/08/2025, 17:00!
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 16
Del Monte and G4S at it again in Kenya - serial corporate killers - boycott Del Monte @sainsburys.bsky.social and Morrisons

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Fresh violence from Del Monte pineapple guards
Plus: A crisis of confidence in the world’s pharmacy
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 8
'Hard borders and high profits'
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Free trade without free people
Neoliberalism, migration, and a burgeoning international labor movement
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 1
a wonderful project from a wonderful organisation @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social
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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · Jul 28
Legacy is at the heart of INQUEST’s recent work on heritage, archiving & memorialisation.

Our working group explores how we can memorialise those killed by the state.

In a new blog, Alfie Neill reflects on the group & how you can shape future projects.
From Memory to Memorialisation: INQUEST’s Memorialisation Working Group
How do we remember those who have died at the hands of the state? Alfie reflects on how our Memorialisation Working Group is coming together to build a legacy for those who have died and those left be...
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 4
Latest @inquest-org.bsky.social newsletter: mailchi.mp/inquest/inqu...
Hillsborough law, deaths in prisons, police & mental health settings, & families fighting back. Read and circulate!
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INQUEST News ⚖️ on challenging state violence & justice campaigns
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