This is a spectacular chapter from a spectacular academic and writer - you don't want to miss it!
Also though, it's wonderful to see @stirunicriminology.bsky.social supporting their team. More of this!!
I contributed a chapter on Phil Collins's extraordinary abolitionist art project (and documentary) Bring Down the Walls. Highly recommended viewing & listening: creativetime.org/projects/bri... Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlAX.... Thanks: Lucy, @kateherrity.bsky.social, Áine, Phil & Sinisa!
We've had a lot of visitors to the contributor guidelines lately, so encouraging you to get in touch! We're an inclusive and supportive bunch, particularly keen to host junior scholars, so please do suggest us to any students getting ready to publish: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/16/t...
Ta!
We often hear about the grim conditions inside Victorian prisons, but inspectors' findings from Woodhill and Swaleside reveal that newer jails are failing, too.
Read our press release: howardleague.org/news/woodhill-and-swales...
For more on this here's a link to Kate Gooch and I on "thinking allowed" - I always wanted to meet Laurie Taylor but really wanted to talk more about psychological survival! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Wonderful to reconnect with the Oriel community!
Award-winning author and Oriel alumna Kate Herrity reflects on her year-long research project into prisons for her extensive studies on sensory criminology.
“I’ve always been interested in prisons, partly because you’re not supposed to go in them,” said Herrity.
www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/news/crimino...
A short film discussing our new book #Sound and #Detention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkW...
#Musicology, #Criminology, #Prisons, #SoundStudies, #Sociology, #Anthropology, #Teaching
“Dangerous Knowledge”: Entrepreneurialism in Academia, a #SensoryCriminology Book launch!
At Kings College, University of Cambridge
Tues 17/03/26: 5.30-7pm
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dangerous-...
Featuring: @kateherrity.bsky.social, @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social, @amyg97.bsky.social + more
For ages @kateherrity.bsky.social + I have been discussing whisper networks in #academia as sousveillant mechanisms of safety for women
Lo...
Shope, J. H., & Pringle, R. (2026). Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors. Rutgers
University books.google.com/books?hl=en&...
'In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy'.
New preprint with @ianloader.bsky.social
We challenge the consensus that walkable neighbourhoods are more criminogenic.
We highlight two flaws in the literature: i) overreliance on police statistics; and ii) neglect of motoring offences.
I'm seeing lots of consideration of how we've designed out the social in communal spaces and thinking about how this all hangs together. In the meantime, particularly useful for #Teaching #Criminology, the impact of designing in Routine Activities for example. Just very much worth a read #CrimSky
Sharing here a recent interview in Black Histories with our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social
At a loose end this afternoon? Grab a cuppa and join us for chats about #Arts, #Music, #Prisons, #MigrantDetention. Really looking forward to a catch up #CrimSky
Join us tomorrow! 2pm. Do share with students who might be interested in combining #Sound, #Music and #Criminology
A reminder about this seminar, taking place tomorrow. If you're around, please do come along, and feel free to let others who might be interested know.
This Thursday, 2pm, join Aine Mangaoang, Lucy Cathcart Froden and I to talk about the meeting places between #Musciology, #SoundStudies and #Criminology as we talk about our new book #Sound and #Detention with the wonderful International Justice Arts Network: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.”
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Encouraging students to think about #Space, harm and Social control? The imposition of pain by urban design on our #houseless - Great for thinking, #teaching and #research, catch Luisa Schneider's brilliant #Sensory #Criminology post: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/16/t...
This Thursday, 2pm, join Aine Mangaoang, Lucy Cathcart Froden and I to talk about the meeting places between #Musciology, #SoundStudies and #Criminology as we talk about our new book #Sound and #Detention with the wonderful International Justice Arts Network: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/...
This screams "Middle Passage" to me.
@kateherrity.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming chapter that links the overlapping coloniality of the Wests naval and carceral projects.
#prison
#ConcentrationCamps
#ICEDetention
Here's a new article from our own @academicdiary.bsky.social, as well as @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and Maisie Tomlinson, which reflects on how we might teach research methods in ways that help foster a ‘demonstrably alive’ sociological craft.
I'm seeing lots of consideration of how we've designed out the social in communal spaces and thinking about how this all hangs together. In the meantime, particularly useful for #Teaching #Criminology, the impact of designing in Routine Activities for example. Just very much worth a read #CrimSky
Calling #Criminology #PGRs and colleagues. Anyone going to #BSC and want to join @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social and I on a panel discussing #Arts, #Music, #Sound in #CJS / places of #Violence? If you have students starting out and nervous about conferencing hit me up! #CrimSky, #AcademicSky
Possibly useful for #Teaching. Plus the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social have released a money off voucher!! That's less than fourteen English pounds for your very own copy!!
#AcademicSky, #Criminology, #CrimSky, #Writing #prisons, #punishment, #ResearchMethods, #Violence
So #Criminology - the wonderful @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social has now joined so looking for two to contribute to a #BSC panel on #Arts, #Music and #Sound in #CJS (or criminological takes more broadly). Really keen to support pgrs or early C's just getting into conferencing. Hit me up!
A wonderful, evocative, urgent post from Luisa T Schneider on the mundane cruelties of hostile architecture and infliction of pain on houseless bodies: sensorycriminology.com/2026/02/16/t...
#AcademicSky, #Sensory #Criminology, #Sociology, #CrimSky