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stirunicriminology.bsky.social
We are ending the week with the good news of a completed PhD viva: congratulations to Dr Jordan Phillips! 👏🎉

Ably supervised by @niallhsmith.bsky.social @drashleyrogers.bsky.social and Dr Ian McIntosh.

Examined by Prof John Scott (QUT) and Dr Maddie Breeze.
#Criminology #CrimSky #Sociology #PhDone
Screenshot of text announcing and congratulating Jordan on passing the PhD, posted on another platform by Dr Niall Hamilton-Smith, one of the PhD supervisors.
January 9, 2026 at 4:52 PM
stirunicriminology.bsky.social
Dr @dianamiranda.bsky.social is a co-author of a new journal article in Surveillance & Society:

'The Ontological Shift in Surveillance: Revisiting the “Surveillant Assemblage” in the Age of Facial Recognition'
#Surveillance #Biometrics #Criminology #CrimSky
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Screenshot of the first page of the journal article, with teal green text for headings and authors and normal black text for main body prose.
January 7, 2026 at 10:38 AM
lawatleeds.bsky.social
Our Social Sciences students have been supporting the award-winning Junior Detectives programme – an immersive week where Leeds school pupils investigate a fictional crime, learn about the justice system and explore the real impact of knife crime.
Read all about it 👇
tinyurl.com/47vpbtzk
#CrimSky
Students in full PPE watch something out of frame A smiling group of people stand in front of a banner saying 'Junior Detectives'.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
warrcrim.bsky.social
I wonder if a live archive of the articles and submissions that include such fake sources would be useful for editors/publishers for:

1. Cross-checking purposes
2. Quality maintenance
3. #AcademicFraud prevention
4. etc.

#AcademicBlusky
#Criminology
#CrimSky
#SocialSciences
#SciComm
milesklee.bsky.social chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 26d
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
kateherrity.bsky.social
Hey #CrimSky #Criminology #AcademicSky - It would be great to get a book review or two from within criminology, particularly #prison people. #Sound and #Detention is a cross disciplinary edited volume with sound studies and #Musicology as well as criminology: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...
Sound and Detention
In this book, over 40 contributors collectively tune in to how sound-and its absence-can function as a source of power that enables isolation, control and harm,…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
lawatleeds.bsky.social
Spotting the warning signs of cuckooing: check out @drlaurabainbridge.bsky.social's new virtual reality (VR) film which is designed to improve awareness of cuckooing victimisation 👇

tinyurl.com/tu5kxf3e

@ccjsleeds.bsky.social
#cuckooing #AcademicSky #CrimSky
A man using a VR headset. #News flare. Text reads: 'Behind Closed Doors: The Cuckooing Hazard Perception Test is a Virtual Reality (VR) experience created to improve awareness of ‘warning signs’ of cuckooing victimisation.'
December 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
kateherrity.bsky.social
Do check out the archive - there are 41 posts ranging from anonymous, system experienced writers to Michael Spurr. We particularly welcome junior academics, with a supportive editorial process. Also some really useful stuff for #teaching #AcademicSky #Criminology #CrimSky
warrcrim.bsky.social Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Dec 13
Hey #Criminology
See below.

2nd blog in the series introducing the new Routledge International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology

It explores the #sensory components of #politics, #violence, and #war (and other things).

The blog is a useful #teaching resource. Check out archive.

Please reshare
kateherrity.bsky.social Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Dec 2
Wondering what to read over your afternoon cuppa? We got you covered #AcademicSky #CrimSky! #Sensory chat introducing the first section of our handbook discussing the sensory #politics of #violence. Do share with students, comments are open: sensorycriminology.com/2025/12/01/i...
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
stirunicriminology.bsky.social
📚 Stirling PhD researcher Jessica Cleary has published a book review of an edited collection:

'Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement' by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (eds.) (2020)

#Criminology #CrimSky
mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/volume-...
Screenshot of the title and first two paragraphs of the book review in the British Journal of Community Justice.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
drhannahgraham.bsky.social
JOBS (×2): Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the West of Scotland (UWS).

Two full-time, permanent posts with a salary of £50k – £65k.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/...
University of the West Scotland hiring Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice Job in Paisley, Scotland | Glassdoor
Salary AC3 £50,253- 65,535 per annum Contractual hours 35 Basis Full Time Job category/type Academic Date posted 1... See this and similar jobs on Glassdoor
www.glassdoor.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
stirunicriminology.bsky.social
Congratulations to our colleagues on their Ediorial in this Issue of the British Journal of Community Justice.

You can read 'Abolitionism and Community Justice – An Uneasy Alliance?' by Dr Kathryn Chadwick, Prof Margaret Malloch, and Dr Martha O'Carroll here 👇 #CrimSky
mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/volume-...
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
chickenlady.bsky.social
#CrimSky collectible
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
chickenlady.bsky.social
Nerding out with #ProfessorJo

#CrimJustice
#CrimLaw
#CrimSky

www.youtube.com/live/9HEBLZX...
Brian Walshe Trial DAY THREE RECAP
YouTube video by Prof Jo Explains
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
wcwonline.bsky.social
Read the article here: theconversation.com/jeffrey-epst...
#gendersky #psycsci #crimsky
‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking
Child sex traffickers are typically white, wealthy men who often insulate themselves from detection and charges, according to a sexual exploitation scholar.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
wcwonline.bsky.social
Associate Research Scientist Kate Price spoke with @theconversation.com about the similarities the Jeffrey Epstein case shares with the majority of child sex trafficking cases, how child sex trafficking happens, and how it can be prevented.
#gendersky #psycsci #crimsky
IN THE NEWS Jeffrey Epstein is not unique': What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking THE CONVERSATION "Jeffrey Epstein is not unique. This is absolutely a classic case, for four primary reasons. Child sex trafficking perpetrators are primarily white merm with wealth and power. Epstein was, granted, among the uber rich and really powerful men. But power is relative to whatever context in which a child is being exploited. The most powerful person in a small town may not be a billionaire like Epstein, but they have disposable income and high socioeconomic status for the area, or they may hold a prominent position in government, church or a civic organization."
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
kateherrity.bsky.social
Thinking about how to zhoosh up seminars, or what to incorporate for future #Criminology courses? We got you covered #AcademicSky #CrimSky (do check out the archive and consider contributing too).
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
stirunicriminology.bsky.social
🟢 NEW: Journal article by Dr Aila Spathopoulou in the British Journal of Community Justice.

'Displacing border violence: Floating prisons, everyday incarceration and abolitionist journeys'
#Criminology #CrimSky #Migration #Borders
www.stir.ac.uk/research/hub...
Picture of the first page of the Journal article with the Abstract: In this paper, I discuss the everyday incarcerations and injustices in and through bordered spaces by focussing on the Bibby Stockholm barge that accommodated people racialised as ‘asylum seekers’ on the Isle of Portland (Dorset, UK) from August 2023 until the end of November 2024. In showing how detention, containment, and incarceration, as well as projected deportation intersect in floating offshore spaces, this paper argues for the abolition of such spaces. I reflect on how visibility and invisibility, distance and closeness were used against people contained on the barge and how spatial and mobile distancing (through the barge’s mobile extensions) functioned to segregate and expose people in racialised and gendered ways. I refer to El Jone’s (2022) concept and method of ‘abolition intimacies’ to discuss the fleeting moments of justice as the result of turning to, feeling and engaging with one another beyond carceral views and 'bordered gazes' (Carastathis, 2022). I conclude the discussion with an image of a travelling ship that was visible in the horizon, as we talked together with Shiraz, a resident of the barge, about our ongoing journeys that brought us to the Isle of Portland, our dreams for future ones, and our commitment to (re)connect against a system of containment, forced removal and dispersal. The travelling ship that we never saw set anchor becomes a metaphor to reflect on abolitionist views and horizons. In this way, floating vessels transcend their immediate physical presence, becoming symbolic of people’s desires to connect beyond and against borders
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
kateherrity.bsky.social
Hey #AcademicSky, #CrimSky - does anyone use insta for teaching? I noticed at my last job it was a really useful way to engage with students but never attempted it. I was thinking about it but wondered if anyone had done it?
December 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
kateherrity.bsky.social
Wondering what to read over your afternoon cuppa? We got you covered #AcademicSky #CrimSky! #Sensory chat introducing the first section of our handbook discussing the sensory #politics of #violence. Do share with students, comments are open: sensorycriminology.com/2025/12/01/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 2
These works disrupt conventional treatments of violence, reflecting approaches which recognise both its material and symbolic aspects as well as those of its effects. Violence, here, can be thought…
sensorycriminology.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
doloresfernandez.bsky.social
📢 New research on 45 sexually motivated serial killers shows they’re not just “inflated egos.” Most display a mix of grandiosity and deep vulnerability—resentment, hypersensitivity, and a sense of being wronged.
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#psychology #criminology #PsychSky #CrimSky
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
kateherrity.bsky.social
As promised, into the good stuff exploring the #sensory handbook. Comments open, and we've included some questions for students in case anyone's having #dissertation thoughts. Do please engage and share if you have a mo #AcademicSky #Crimsky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/12/01/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 2
These works disrupt conventional treatments of violence, reflecting approaches which recognise both its material and symbolic aspects as well as those of its effects. Violence, here, can be thought…
sensorycriminology.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
asiermoneva.com
What does #CrimSky think about this? A recent case comes to mind... 🤔
dingdingpeng.the100.ci Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Nov 30
I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.

1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
November 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
ciaramcglynn.bsky.social
This exploratory study demonstrates the method's utility in developing a more comprehensive framework for understanding barriers to appearance. Instead of a "one-size-fits-all" approach, this offers a technical framework for tailored interventions. #CrimSky
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
europeanjprobation.bsky.social
Join the European Journal of Probation editorial team! Applications are now open for a Co-Editor and for Members of the Editorial Advisory Board. See below for details.
#Probation #SocialWork #Criminology #CrimSky
Image with a title saying, 'Join the European Journal of Probation editorial team: Applications now open', with an image of a woman's hands typing on a laptop. The person who can be contacted about applications is Prof Ioan Durnescu.
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
drhannahgraham.bsky.social
📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert:

Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).

Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
kateherrity.bsky.social
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM