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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 1d

See what our colleagues got up at the annual @bordercrim.bsky.social workshop

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

Watch to find out more! 👇

@juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 5d

if anyone has any ideas about funding, our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have an unexpected shortfall for their communications work...

Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 6d

I know there is a lot going on in the world but @bordercrim.bsky.social facing a funding crisis to stay meaningfully afloat. Initially in search of £12,000— any ideas of where to look gratefully received. Feels like a bad time to have our platform shrink.

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 5d

this will be great. the book is excellent. please do join us!

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 7d

Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention.

Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️

www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 16d

"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity"

Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social

The Border as a Service Job: Supply Chain Justice—the Logistics of British Border Control by Mary Bosworth

Today’s newspapers are strewn with increasingly restrictive and populist positions on migration control and asylum politics. Many of these positions imagin

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 23d

📣The Centre for Criminology is delighted to announce our renewed partnership with justice reformer and philanthropist Lady Edwina Grosvenor to advance the important work of the Death Penalty Research Unit 🤲

Read more 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Advancing the global conversation around the death

The Centre for Criminology is delighted to continue to partner with justice reformer and

www.law.ox.ac.uk

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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Jul 24

Come and join us in Public Law @uctlaw.bsky.social.

Five positions in international law, environmental law and criminal law.

It is a fantastic department with a wonderful collection of colleagues doing cutting edge legal research.

Further details below

jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · Jul 28

See what our colleagues have been up @bordercrim.bsky.social

Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very excited to share this' year's bumper edition of the @bordercrim.bsky.social annual report. everyone has been very active and is doing amazing things... we just need more funding... like everyone else.. : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Annual Report 2024-2025

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

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Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal @crimandcj.bsky.social · May 30

🚨 We're now on Bluesky! 🚨
Follow Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal for updates, calls for papers, and criminological conversations in a new space.
📢 @crimandcj.bsky.social
Come say hi and help us build the CJ community on Bluesky too!

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · Jul 22

Read our latest blog post written about one of our Trinity term All Souls Seminars: Genocide - The Crime of Crimes blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-crimi...

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · Jul 11

@vickytaylor.bsky.social on the continuity of cruelty in the UK/France deal and the lack of evidence about deterrence. Of interest to @bordercrim.bsky.social folks too: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

‘One in, one out’ Channel deal is just another cruel gimmick

Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people

www.opendemocracy.net

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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · Jul 4

Work in education and want to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence?

Join our webinar to learn how to identify and intervene when a child or young person is at risk of becoming involved in violence and hear about our new tool.

📅 Sign-up youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · Jun 25

A slightly more social sciencey-piece than normal from me about the results of the survey with detainee escorting staff that found 1 in 8 (12.6%) had had suicidal thoughts ‘some’, ‘most’ or ‘all the time’ over the previous 7 days: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · Jun 13

Check out the first academic review of very own @mfbosworth.bsky.social’s new book, Supply chain Justice

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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · Jun 13

"Supply Chain Justice is an instant classic and an unexpected pageturner"

Lovely review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice in Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

@princetonupress.bsky.social

You can buy the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Review of “Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control”

Mary Bosworth’s timely book, Supply Chain Justice, takes readers for the first time inside Britain’s border control operations and details the logistics an

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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · Jun 13

Join us for our final two amazing events of the year: the first on Tuesday (17th) at 4.15pm with the incredible @silvilunazul.bsky.social and Lorena Burbano on 'Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a non-penal feminist justice' (hybrid) @oxfordcrim.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a

Abstract: This presentation brings together the perspectives of academics and grassroots organisers

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · Jun 13

"📣 We are #hiring! We are looking to appoint a 16-month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology. The post-holder will undertake research, teach & assess students, & support the work of the Centre. The post is full time and fixed term until 31 Dec 2026. Find out more: shorturl.at/kqtab

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · Jun 5

Check out this updated reported by a team of committed colleagues including our very own DPhil student @vickytaylor.bsky.social

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our new report (led by @vickytaylor.bsky.social) provides a critical update on the UK government’s continued prosecution and imprisonment of people seeking safety—including refugees, trafficking survivors, and children—simply for arriving by ‘small boat’: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

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Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social · Jun 4

Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here:

www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · May 30

Sign up to our last All Souls Seminar of the year: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @dpruoxford.bsky.social · May 23

*NEW* DPRU Blog post

Lawyer and @oxfordcrim.bsky.social MSc candidate Simran Chawdhary on punitive populism and performative justice in India’s capital trials, and how abolitionist advocacy can reframe justice beyond retribution:

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...

Exploring punitive populism and performative justice in India’s trial courts

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · May 23

Read our latest blog from MSc student Andrew Lika: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-crimi...

HD photo of painting, India, wall, and map by Gayatri Malhotra (Unsplash)

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · May 20

just a reminder that @princetonupress.bsky.social books still on 50% off sale with code BLOOM50 this month including Supply Chain Justice and many other exciting new border control books (like Irene Vega's one on US border guards): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Supply Chain Justice

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

press.princeton.edu

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · May 16

Sign up for our next All Souls Seminar: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · May 15

A full house at the @ox.ac.uk Vice-Chancellor’s awards day. Many congratulations to Carolyn Hoyle & the @dpruoxford.bsky.social team & colleagues at the death penalty project for being short listed

Interior photo of awards ceremony at the Sheldonian theatre University of Oxford

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · May 15

Exciting to be nice and early at the @ox.ac.uk vice-chancellor’s award, where @dpruoxford.bsky.social has been shortlisted.

Interior photo of the Sheldonian theatre at Oxford university

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