🎉 Congratulations to Mr Alex @batesmith.bsky.social and his co-author Kieran McEvoy, who have won the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article of the Year Prize for their article ‘"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia'!
🌟Read more about this important article👇
tinyurl.com/t9bbryfk
2.5 year postdoc opportunity at CoE NARS, Tampere University. The focus is on the history of everyday nationalism and we encourage applications dealing with the history of childhood and youth. Please distribute far and wide and encourage great scholars to apply. tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
That's interesting. And the same as what happened in Scotland after they lowered their BAC limit for driving in 2014.
Seconded! It was a great event. Thanks very much to @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and @janetweston.bsky.social for organising.
It was a great discussion about a great book! Thanks for the invite Janne.
Background of cars in a traffic jam. #news flare. Text reads: ‘The Cars and Crime Symposium was sponsored by the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies and held on the 31 July 2025 in a community café in Ilkley. As the first of its kind, this symposium brought together leading criminologists, legal scholars, geographers and road safety experts to discuss how vehicles, drivers, and crime intersect in shaping public safety.’
🚗 From joyriding in 1980s Ireland to AI-enhanced traffic stops, the #Cars and #Crime Symposium brought together leading thinkers on topics such as #drink-driving, #speeding, and #policing.
🔗Explore how this symposium reshaped understandings of safety, urban life, and justice.👇
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It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...
We’re delighted to open our final Early Career Researcher Development Fund. This is a vulnerability and policing open call with £25,000 available for 12-month projects.
Deadline: Monday 29 September 2025, 4pm BST
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career...
Here's the abstract:
Good to see this article is now out in print. Worth checking out if you're into historical criminology, regulation or white collar/business crime. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
'Measuring sentence inflation England & Wales', with @sentencingacademy.bsky.social
We estimate that 87% of the increase in sentence severity experienced over the last 2 decades is due to a genuine change in the sentencing practice (sentence inflation).
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...
Hello hello
New job in business law at @lawatleeds.bsky.social
Come and work with me and other high calibre individuals!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR107/l...
Thanks! Feel free to use it or share it however you want. Hope it's useful.
The dataset from my project on illicit alcohol 1780-1914 is now available here doi.org/10.5518/1290. It includes criminal justice, licensing, tax and mortality data. Should be useful for people interested crime history and alcohol policy
We are delighted to announce that Prof. @jpinasanchez.bsky.social will deliver the fifth of the 2024-25 Faculty of Social Sciences Inaugural Lectures!
📅30 Jan 2025
🕔5pm
🏫University of Leeds
Follow the link for more info and registration:
ow.ly/7TG750UAUO3
Might be a bit late to this but would be great if you can still add me. Thanks.
Please add me if possible. Thanks.
Congratulations Steve and Emily! Very well deserved.
Ok, I've started a crime history starter pack, hmu to be added!
go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw
Inevitably, I've made a Drinking Studies Network starter pack based on the DSN's members list (drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/members-2/) If you don't want to be included, or if you see people I've missed and could add, please let me know!
go.bsky.app/4zgBneK
"Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing in England and Wales: Taking Stock and Moving Forward"
📅 Date: 14th November
⏰ Time: 12:00 to 14:30
The event is fully booked, but you can still join us online for the academic presentations!
Watch the live broadcast here: lse.zoom.us/j/8695370919...
Check it out! Should be interesting for those into corporate crime, business crime, white collar crime plus historical criminology and histories of crime and regulation. #criminology #historicalcriminology #regulation
... a) tax agencies should be routinely recognised as key parts of the criminal justice system and b) doing this helps rebalance criminology away from the ‘crimes of the streets’ by bringing a whole swathe of usually invisible, middle-class crime under the criminological gaze...
What is the Excise and why does it matter to criminology? Great to see this published. It’s a paper I’ve been stewing on for years and, with help from the Leverhulme Trust, it’s finally done. It uses the history of the British Excise to argue that...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks Toby!
Of course. But in a highly regulated way.
I'm doing an inaugural professorial lecture in Leeds on the 23rd October. All are welcome so please come along if you're interested. #criminology #historicalcriminology #alcoholstudies #alcohol
Hello bluesky! Thought I'd give this place a try. Mostly posting about historical criminology and alcohol. Please follow if interested.