And they've arrived!! Thank you @routledgebooks.bsky.social
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Thankyou so much! It was great working with you guys

Pleased to see our chapter (with @sianlewiscrim.bsky.social) out now in the wonderful 'Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology'

Im booked in & looking forward to it!

Excellent thread here about domestic homicide 👇

Line graph showing an increase in prison deaths in England and Wales from 1978 to 2025, peaking near 400 deaths.

The number of people dying in prisons in England and Wales has risen to the highest level on record, official data reveal.

Prisons recorded 394 deaths in 2025 – a 15% increase on the previous year.

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Amazing news! Congrats 🥳

📊 Just launched: An interactive dashboard for visualising UK university finance data published by HESA.

Compare universities. Explore key financial indicators, trends and correlations.

🔗 shiny.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/lpzjd/uni-fi...

#UKHE #OpenData #rstats #AcademicSky

If anyone wants to buy it DM me for a 50% discount code valid until end of November (and on all BUP titles!)

Ill be buying it! Thankyou 😁

Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse - Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice; Since publication of the first edition, awareness of, and interest in, adolescent-to-parent abuse has risen consid...

Publication Day! The second edition of 'Adolescent to Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy & Practice' is out now. Fully updated to reflect the huge amount of research & practice that has taken place over the past decade. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/adolescent-t...

Online presentation - Dr. David Burke: Experiences of adolescent to mother violence in the context of intimate partner abuse

Hollyoaks to tackle tricky issue of child-to-parent abuse - Prolific North Channel 4’s flagship continuing drama Hollyoaks is to highlight a common but under-recognised form of domestic abuse, in a storyline focusing on the changing dynamic of father and son, Ste Hay and Luc...

www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/hollyoa...

Ahhh, lovely to see you here! Hope youre keeping well xx

University of Derby definitely wins best merch prize at the University Spring Fair today

Adult-Child to Parent Abuse (ACPA) Research and Toolkit As part of the Mayor’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy 2022-2025, MOPAC commissioned Equality Collabs to undertake research and provide recommendations for London on understanding and...

Delighted to share our new Adult-Child to Parent Research with Practice Toolkit and Needs Assessment Tool, commissioned by MOPAC. All downloadable here: www.london.gov.uk/programmes-s...

Teenagers excluded from school ‘twice as likely’ to commit serious violence Large-scale analysis of UK police and education records reveals link between expulsion and violence within year

Really interesting research here by @iainbrennan.bsky.social & Rosie Cornish on the links between school exclusion and engagement in serious crime www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘A real injustice’: mothers killed by their children is still a hidden issue in UK Research shows that mothers are seen as a ‘safe space’ for their offspring – nearly all of them sons – to use violence

Good to see research by me and others highlighted in this article about mothers killed by their children. A sobering read. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Im really sorry to hear that. Its such a difficult situation x

Substance‐involved child‐to‐parent violence Introduction Child-to-parent violence (CPV) is associated with youth substance problems; however, CPV which is substance-involved (SU-CPV) is specifically excluded from the consensus definition of C...

Substance-involved child to parent violence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Mate crime: how friendship is being used as a weapon to steal and control A little-recognised form of abuse, it can lead to years of misery In the beginning, Mandy Davis* thought she was helping out a friend. Paying his rent in their flatshare was an obvious move after he told her he was about to lose his job. But what…

Mate crime: how friendship is being used as a weapon to steal and control

Professor of Criminology at Aston University An opportunity for an academic position as a Professor of Criminology is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Job opportunity at Aston - we are looking for a new Professor in Criminology to join us. Research specialism in environmental or digital crime especially welcome, but exceptional candidates across all areas welcome. Happy to discuss with potential applicants:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM863/p...

Grandmother kinship carers: negotiating conflicts in identity, blame, loss and love in the context of 'mother blame'. Our new article is out today!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely dog! 🐶

Interested in a PhD scholarship within Sociology (eg, gender, popular culture, human rights) or Criminology (eg, families & crime, policing and inequality)? Have a look at the SENSS scheme below and get in touch!

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I love this article - I always send my PhD students off to read it!

‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Ch... Abstract. Drawing on recent criminological scholarship on child to parent violence (CPV), this article applies a feminist ‘ethics of care’ framework to understa

Now out in the British Journal of Criminology: "Im his safe space": Mothers experiences of physical violence from their neurodivergent children - Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care
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Ahhh yes, I do discuss this in my chapter - it is really interesting. Ill have to check out your blog, thanks.

What a lovely review of my book 'Family Criminology' in the latest issue of the British Journal of Criminology. In the book, I explore youth justice and parenting, the families of those incarcerated, Mafia families, family violence/homicide, victims families & so much more!