Book Review: A Philosophical History of Police Power by MELAYNA KAY LAMB - Megan McElhone, 2025

My review of @melaynakay.bsky.social’s A Philosophical History of Police Power. This book makes important contributions to several bodies of literature, and communicates complex arguments very clearly. Well worth reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do not miss the event of the year!!!!! What a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Tanya, who is not just a brilliant scholar but a brilliant friend ❤️

‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry

EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.

Creative Australia ditching Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the Venice Biennale is an extraordinary denial of artistic freedom by our supposedly leading & independent arts advocate.

A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.

FULL SHOW: Sam Kerr cleared, the HECS/home loan conundrum + surfing's climate threat - triple j Sam Kerr was found not guilty of racially harassing a police officer. How did we get here and what does it mean for the future of her Matildas captaincy? And the government wants to stop your HECS-HE...

I was on Triple J Hack yesterday to speak about the Sam Kerr verdict -- thanks to Dave and the team for having me!

www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...

Thanks for sharing Tanya -- miss you!

My new article for The Conversation.

If prison beds are built, they will be filled...

Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge

We Lebs have transcended race! Incredible. I’m still not eating devon, though

Thanks Mike! The article is drawn from my PhD, so any of its virtues come from your input (and patience with me for all those years - thanks again)!

Thanks heaps Emma! See you sooon! ☺️

Thank you ☺️

I'm flattered that my article 'Gangland and Task Force Gain' received the Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology's Early Career Award this year — thanks to the selection committee for their consideration! I'm indebted to everyone who provided feedback on drafts 🙏
anzsoc.org/anzosc-2024-...

Mo Salah, Mo Salah, Mo Salah, writing down the wing 🎵

This month I am leaving Birkbeck after 5 years. I’ll be forever grateful to my brilliant colleagues & students, and I’ll miss them. But I’m also buzzing to be joining Monash Criminology/Social Sciences in January. I’ve received a really warm welcome & I’m looking forward to becoming part of the team

Undercover Policing Inquiry Officially set up in 2015, the inquiry is looking into serious allegations of systematic abuses by undercover policing units developed over 40 years

The
@BBCiPlayer
is live-streaming the evidence from arch manipulator #BobLambert the #spycops inquiry today. Tune in here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Wow! How exciting

ICYMI: compelling new StopWatch report arguing for the repeal of Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. Section 60 empowers police to conduct ‘suspicionless’ stops and searches.

Extra points for a clever title.

www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...

Give him whatever he wants.

WHATEVER.

HE.

WANTS.

👑

Met Police officer pleads not guilty over serious injuries to tasered suspect PC Liam Newman is accused of inflicting serious injuries on a man after tasering him

A bumper day of court cases involving Metropolitan Police officers.

First, an Ilford PC accused of inflicting life-changing injuries on a man who was Tasered and fell off a shed roof.

Pleads not guilty to causing GBH, case sent for trial

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

An image of three blue bibbed police liaison officers, their backs to the camera, with the words "these officers are gathering intelligence. You are under no obligation to talk to them - so don't"

This has been a vital message Netpol has promoted vigorously on the other place: blue bibbed "police liaison officers" at protests are intelligence gatherers, you do not need to speak to them, so don't

Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch...

The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.

So I didn't get the starter pack memo and made a list of people doing Criminology, which you can use as a feed. It keeps growing. If you should be on it, let me know.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

#Criminology

Trying to foster connections between emerging, early career, and senior policing scholars! Open to all fields — please share and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc

Travelling atm and geo blocked from watching, but you’ve prompted me to listen to King of the Mountain anyway

Thanks so much! 😊

May I be added, please?

Yes, it’s great! Must admit that I’m a bit rusty on my Hobbes, but thankfully the relevant sections are well paced 😅

Petition against the University of London injunction against protests in support of BDS | change.org/p/university...