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Robin Gålnander

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Feminist criminologist studying desistance from crime. Associate Professor at Stockholm University

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Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social · Mar 26

Publication day! @spookademic.bsky.social and I wrote a book, deep diving into the struggles involved in desistance from crime and - crucially - dealing with concepts of normalcy from a position as outsider.

Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, ...

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Tea Fredriksson @spookademic.bsky.social · 12d

I finally got around to turning what started as a presentation at ESC in Florence a couple of years ago into an article in CMC! 🥳

Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)

#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography

No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold - Tea Fredriksson, 2025

This article explores the courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold, where past harms are rearticulated and future outcomes are yet uncertain. Drawing on ethnogr...

journals.sagepub.com

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Heidi Mork Lomell @heidimorklomell.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here:

www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

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Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Sep 6

#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect
Comments in link below

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · Sep 6

New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars

Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...

Medical Debt Behind Bars - Anna Anderson - Inquest

Incarcerated people accrue debt for nearly all of their medical care. This makes a mockery of their right to health care—and saddles them with devastating debt upon release.

inquest.org

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Next Chapter Scotland @nextchapterscotland.org.uk · Sep 4

📘 Not sure when a conviction is “spent”?

Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.

💡 Clear steps, less stress.

👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025

#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure

Spent or Unspent | Next Chapter Scotland

How to work out whether your conviction is spent or unspent

www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is such a profoundly bad move by the #EuroCrim2025 organisers/Board.

Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.

People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.

I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.

#ESC2025

Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here we go #eurocrim2025. Holding the conference at a US institution in Athens with American security measures that you would expect at an embassy does not feel right especially considering the current human rights violations happening in the US.

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Lewis Simpson @drlewissimpson.bsky.social · Sep 3

My PhD research 'Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales' is now available online!

etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...

Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales - White Rose eTheses Online

etheses.whiterose.ac.uk

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Tom Sutton @crimepublisher.bsky.social · Sep 3

All set up for #EuroCrim2025 or #EuroCrim25. Come and say hello if you want to talk #criminology publishing. I can also talk about music, movies and books.

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · Sep 2

UK - More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women.

Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Femicide Census says more mums killed by sons than by strangers

The Femicide Census says 12 women were killed by their sons in 2022 and 11 by a stranger.

www.bbc.com

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Sep 2

US military spending is the reason Americans can’t have nice things like free healthcare.

“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social

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Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social · Sep 2

The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...

World Archaeological Congress Statement on Exclusion of Ariel University Affiliated Scholar from WAC-10 – World Archaeological Congress

worldarchaeologicalcongress.com

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Sep 1

BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."

(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)

"Therefore, the International Association of Genocide Scholars:
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948);
Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court;

Calls upon the government of Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid,
water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population;"

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Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social · Aug 30

I'm an associate professor 🤯🎓💐 #criminology

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Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social · Aug 30

Important information for anyone attending the European Society of Criminology in Athens and for members of ESC. Petition outlines serious concerns. Consider what you can do to support 👇👇 👇#eurocrim

Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · Aug 24

ESC colleagues: petition & important vote at the General Assembly. If not boycotting, vote. Or a 3rd option: use presentation time to discuss complicity and promote attendance at the GE?

I'm scheduled to present on asylum seekers & everyday resistance. It would be unethical if I didn't resist too

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 24

... and if you still intend to attend, get behind the motion to be discussed and voted on at the General Assembly of the 25th Eurocrim Annual Conference, on 05.09.2025 at 13:00

criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · Aug 29

Norway’s parliamentary elections are coming up. As in many other European countries, the right is focusing on immigration and crime. But Norway remains a remarkably prosperous, diverse, and safe society. Rarely have the right’s talking points seemed more unreal.

Norway's Right Is Obsessed With Immigration and Crime

Norway is a safe, prosperous, and diverse society. So why can't the right stop talking about immigration and crime?

www.theorybrief.com

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Tom Sutton @crimepublisher.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is my pile of books to take to the ESC conference in Athens next week. I honestly don't think they will all fit, so apologies in advance.... Looking forward to hitting the road again and talking #criminology with current and future authors and editors.

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Ailie Rennie @ailierennie.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨I'm very excited to announce the launch of my report: Release from long-term imprisonment. This report is based on a new empirical study I conducted last year into the release experiences of people who have served very long prison sentences.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...

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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · Aug 28

As part of their Access to Justice spotlight series, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published a new report 'exposing serious failings in the way complaints are handled in Scotland’s prisons.'
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...

Screenshot of the new report cover, in dark navy blue and purple hues, saying 'Access to Justice for Prisoners: The Complaints System.'

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Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lucky they only shuffled *all of them* 👀

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · Jul 1

📖 Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, & Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander is now on our YouTube page.

@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social

youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...

Book Talk: Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

YouTube video by The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison - The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown; The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social · Jun 11

Applications are open for PhD students at Stockholm Uni's Dept of Criminology. Four years of full time research! In a vibrant research environment. Dream up your project and apply via the link.

PhD student in Criminology

The Department of Criminology is a department within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 50 employees. Criminology is the scientific study of crime. A criminologist is interested in ques

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Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social · May 28

📕Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson @spookademic.bsky.social & Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social

Commentators: @fergusmcneill.bsky.social & @margueritesch.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

🗓️ 11 June, 1pm (UK time)
📌 Online
🔻Register bit.ly/3HdaR89

Book Talk: Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy

Join us for this author-meets-readers event! Authors: Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander, Stockholm University.

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