There is time yet… especially when the desperation sets in. 😉

Seems entirely sensible to me. Much more so than sending our money (and our people) overseas, as per one of the other party’s idiotic proposal for (mis)managing the prisons crisis. 🤔

International law - the whole edifice; all of diplomacy; and every comma in the American constitution are failing in this abject and absolute triumph of necropolitics with impunity.

Every last sinew of diplomacy must now be strained. UK airspace must be closed to US military. Immediately.

As of end‑December 2025, Ethiopia hosted an estimated 1.12 million refugees and asylum‑seekers, primarily from South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan.

There are no safe or legal routes to U.K. who have cut overseas aid again to host countries of refugees

The Prisons & Penal Crisis: What Should be Done? Join SASO to learn out about the Sentencing & Penal Policy Commission’s newly published recommendations and to put your questions to them.

Looking forward to speaking at this SASO event as a Commissioner in the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission.

📆 5:45pm, Tuesday 21st April.
🏫 Venue: St George's Tron, Buchanan St, Glasgow.
🎟 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prison...
#Criminology #CrimSky #Law #SocialWork #Decarceration

UK is now refusing entry to students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cameroon and Sudan because it now calls their right to claim asylum ‚an abuse‘. This contravenes the Refugee Convention.

The successful candidate to this part-time Research Associate post will be working in a research team of wonderful people/academics:
@bethweaver.bsky.social
@nicolacarr.bsky.social
@jakephillips.bsky.social
@fergusmcneill.bsky.social
Sarah Doxat-Pratt, Jan Flaherty,
and me!

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For some this is literally a death sentence- they know this. We have repeatedly furnished the evidence and reports. This is what ideological hate looks and sounds like - wearing a suit and elected but without anything but ‘Change’ in the manifesto and NONE of this far right agenda embrace

One final song to wrap up our tour of A Giant on the Bridge. This is Bars and Multicoloured Chairs - written by Alana Moore, Louis Abbott & Phil Crockett Thomas. 🪑

See you tomorrow Skye! 🙌

#livemusic #gig #theatre #scottishtheatre #musicvideo

Radio Scotland Breakfast - 20/03/2026 - BBC Sounds News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather and big name interviews.

On BBC Radio and TV today (Breakfast, DriveTime, Reporting Scotland, News at Seven), Fiona Stalker has an important story about women on remand in prison, awaiting trial.

On Breakfast, just after 7 am, I discussed these issues with her. We need to reduce use of remand.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Dear Home Secretary, People get on boats to cross the Channel because they love their families, because the separations - like those we all went through hell with under Lockdown - are killing them. Because living without the one’s you love is unendurable. That’s it. 1/

Screenshot of the new Human Rights Tracker tool on a mobile device, with a welcome message.

Scotland has a new Human Rights Tracker. This online tool allows you to explore recommendations made by six UN #HumanRights treaty bodies and filter by theme, human rights issue, affected group.

Mentioning it because not many know about it; it isn't being posted on here.
humanrightstracker.gov.scot

🖕Fuck It Button written by Gus Bear and Donna Maciocia

Another taste of the music from A Giant on the Bridge, this song centred around the characters D and June. Played by Dave Hook and Jill O’Sullivan.

#livemusic #gig #musicvideo #theatre #scotland

REVIEW: A Giant On The Bridge Fascinating, mad and impactful are just a few of the words one could use to describe A Giant On The Bridge. This concert-like experience mixed with spoken-word theatre blends the story of a father on ...

🌟 New 4.5 star review just dropped for A Giant on the Bridge.

“Deeply emotional and slightly mad, this is a performance which stands out from the rest“

Read the full review below 👇

Very glad to share this critical reflection from our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social; out now with @politicshome.bsky.social.

Out now by our own @susan-batchelor.bsky.social and Caitlin Gormley, ‘Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective’, British Journal of Criminology.
Open access: academic.oup.com/bjc/article/...

About 250m from my childhood home. Still fascinated by the design. 😊

Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

When violence unfolds across multiple relationships and contexts, incident-based systems struggle to recognise how harms accumulate.

New article: ‘Reframing Repeat Violence: A Critical Life-Course Perspective’, British Journal of Criminology.

Open access:
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Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

The article develops a qualitative typology highlighting different configurations of repeat violence, including:

• unsettled lives
• mutual violence
• intermittent victimisation

Open access:
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Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

Our analysis shifts attention away from linear life-course trajectories towards the relational conditions through which harm is produced, recognised and sustained over time.

Open access:
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Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

Rather than treating repeat violence as incident frequency or individual risk, we analyse it as a cumulative, relational process shaped by inequality and institutional response.

Open access:
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Reframing repeat violence: A critical life-course perspective Abstract. This article advances a critical life-course perspective on repeat violence, drawing on qualitative interviews with people with lived experience

The research also highlights the role of institutions - including how misrecognition and marginalisation shape access to safety and support.

Open access:
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What we learn from listening to people who have been through our Justice system | Sacro Dr Hannah Graham is a Commissioner on the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. In this guest blog post, she focuses on what we learned from people who have been through the Justice syst...

🖊 BLOG: As a Commissioner in the Sentencing & Penal Policy Commission 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, I've written a blog on 'What we learn from listening to people who have been through our Justice system.' Lived experience helped to inform our report.

🔗 Guest blog
@sacroscotland.bsky.social
www.sacro.org.uk/post/what-we...

📣 The first of our two performances at Capital Theatres, Studio Theatre has sold out!

Edinburgh, just over a week until we see you! 🌉

www.capitaltheatres.com/shows/a-gian...

#theatre #livemusic #edinburgh #scotland #gig

Had fun writing this… and the sequel, more of which later. 😉

We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

What a brilliant opening night for A Giant on the Bridge.

Hear what our audience members had to say. 🧡

We’re touring across Scotland until the end of March: www.ktproducing.co.uk/giant

#livemusic #theatre #scotland #gig #scottishtheatre

📣 Opening night for A Giant on the Bridge

Acoustic songwriting, bold storytelling, Scottish hip-hop and more. Here’s a small taste of what to expect.

👉 Two nights in Glasgow only: 25-26 Feb
cottiers.com/event/a-gian...

#livemusic #glasgow #theatre #gig #scottishtheatre

Here’s a sneak peek of the track ‘Everything’s Spherical’ written by Matthew & Jo Mango. 👀

Performed by:

Louis Abbott
Jo Mango
Dave Hook
Jill O’Sullivan
Kim Grant

#livemusic #gig #theatre #scottishtheatre #musicvideo