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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · Aug 11

Are you interested in understanding and preventing child criminal exploitation (CCE) or testing new community violence prevention interventions? Come on work with us @qubcriminology.bsky.social @slsshub.bsky.social !

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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · Jul 8

Great idea to colocate justice and child and adolescent mental health services ⬇️

Youth Justice Agency @youthjusticeagency.bsky.social · Jul 7

We have been working with CAMHS since 2019 to develop an innovative approach to supporting young people in contact with the justice system with their mental health needs to help them address the challenges they face and reduce the likelihood of them re-offend.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 25

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · Jun 10

Still a few weeks to respond to Dept Justice NI consultation on simplifying court ordered disposals for children. If you work with children, please encourage them to respond @slsshub.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @qubcriminology.bsky.social

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Consultation on Court-Ordered Community Sentences for Children

The Department would like your views on our proposals to simplify the sentencing framework for children by replacing the existing seven court-ordered community sentences with a new, single, flexible o...

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QUB Criminology @qubcriminology.bsky.social · May 20

Our Youth Justice Student and Project Co-Ordinator at Invisible Traffik adds to the call to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility in N.Ireland @childrensrightsqub.bsky.social

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Exploited Children Need Help, Not Handcuffs - Queen's Policy Engagement

The latest in a series of articles on raising the age of criminal responsibility in Northern Ireland by Megan Phair from Invisible Traffick.

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · May 14

Very exciting to have @louisebrangan.bsky.social at our ICCJ seminars at the end of this month! Join us on the 28 of May in the School of Social Sciences if you wished to know about Magdalene Laundries 🔔📣 @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks so much to EA youth services for facilitating space for some of @qubcriminology.bsky.social for a time out. Reflecting on research, impact and future directions

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QUB Criminology @qubcriminology.bsky.social · May 6

Interested in postgraduate study in Children Rights or Youth Justice? Join our live webinar on 9th May 15.00-16.00 to find out about the courses we offer at QUB. Register here - www.qub.ac.uk/Study/AHSS/w...
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Thomas Abt @thomasabt.bsky.social · Apr 29

“To say, ‘We’re going to cut programs that protect people from bias, that help people with opioid addiction, that keep guns off our streets’ — it’s irresponsible, it’s reckless, it’s dangerous, and it’s going to get people killed.” crimjj.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/d...

DOJ Anticrime Grant Cuts Prompting Layoffs, Program Closures

A deaf mother trying to escape her abusive husband came to a domestic violence shelter but couldn’t communicate fluently with American Sign Language. Shelter workers contacted Activating Change, a …

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QUB Criminology @qubcriminology.bsky.social · Apr 27

Good luck Kelly!

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Mar 9

We had a few intense days engaging with the important work of Maximo Sozzo on southernizing and decolonizing criminology at the ICCJ @qubcriminology.bsky.social

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QUB Criminology @qubcriminology.bsky.social · Feb 25

🥁 Spaces are filling up quickly! To register for the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice annual lecture, see link below ⬇️

Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Feb 25

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the QUB ICCJ Annual Lecture is going to be delivered by Prof Maximo Sozzo (University of Santa Fe, Argentina)

“Punishment and Authoritarianism in Latin America: a palimsepstic perspective”

6th March, 4 pm in the Great Hall

sign up here: shorturl.at/IodBC

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Feb 25

@qubcriminology.bsky.social
the QUB ICCJ Annual Lecture is going to be delivered by Prof Maximo Sozzo (University of Santa Fe, Argentina)

“Punishment and Authoritarianism in Latin America: a palimsepstic perspective”

6th March, 4 pm in the Great Hall

sign up here: shorturl.at/IodBC

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Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social · Feb 6

Interested in ACEs, violence, conflict and outcomes? Check out our prevalence study launched today:

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Landmark study reveals widespread impact of childhood trauma in Northern Ireland

“For the first time, the true extent of childhood trauma and its impact on all people in Northern Ireland has been documented and measured for all to see.”

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