Festival of Palestinian Culture kicks today in #MaynoothUniversity, 7-10 April
Supported x #Maynooth Students' Union, MU Social Science Institute (MUSSI), MU Arts & Humanities Institute, & the Depts of Adult & Community Education, #Anthropology Applied Social Studies, #Education, English, Geography, Law & #Criminology, Mathematics & Statistics, Media Studies, Music, Primary and Early Childhood Education (Froebel), #Sociology & Spanish & Latin American Studies
Come and work with me! I’m looking for a #postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost & send to anyone who might be interested.
Deadline 9th of May
I have a paper due for my drugs subject in a few weeks - discuss legislation and policy concerning illicit drug use and control in one international country as a basis for comparison with Australia.
I was going to look at the decriminalisation of drugs in Portugal, because that's super interesting... however..
..however.
"In conclusion, Australia should not follow the example of illicit drug policy and legislation set in the Philippines by Duturte's presidency because:
1. a lot of poor people were murdered in awful ways
2. the ICC will arrest and charge you with crimes against humanity."
oh no.. my lecturer mentioned 'cops in the US who are overdosing on fentanyl by just coming into skin contact with it...'
They aren't. It's a moral panic point that conservative media is trying to push.
We're now talking about how people use drugs.. like the actual mechanism for taking them.
It's surprisingly hard not to just yell BOOFING in the middle of a lecture.
I'm doing a subject this semester on Drugs and Crime. This week's lecture is called "pharmaceuticals and how drugs work".
My lecturer just said "well, I'm a criminologist, I'm not a doctor.. well.. I am a doctor, but I'm not a doc.. oh, you know. I have a doctorate of criminology, not a doctorate of doctoring.."
Worldwide, young men commit the most violent crimes. How should we deal with them?
In an idyllic Swiss village, young men with histories of often-violent crime are being taught how to behave better.
The alternative to prison is based on the hope that broken people can be changed. It's expensive – but staffers say it is cheaper in the long run.
The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology edited by Mareile Kaufmann and Heidi Mork Lomell is now published including my chapter on Artificial Intelligence in which I address both the use in criminal justice and policing and how crime is changing as a result of AI
#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology #openaccess https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111062037-010/html
I'm so interested in doing research into why Australian terrorism cases are primarily brought against teenagers.
Ian, Blair & I are excited to share “Institutional formalism & criminal sentencing on the frontier" arguing that sentences became longer & more predictable as institutional formalism & judicial oversight increased in colonial British Columbia 1864–1913
https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewaf002
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #britishcolumbia #criminology
Our article on rhizomatic harms of algorithmic policing is now published in print in a great new issue of Theoretical Criminology 
#criminology #surveillance #digitalcriminology #AI https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13624806241246267
Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet by Sanja Milivojevic, 2021
Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the discipline of criminology.
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#nonfiction
#Internet
#DFTs
#crime
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‘Rape is effectively decriminalised’: how did sexual assault become so easy to get away with?
Few alleged offenders are found guilty. Many victims are retraumatised. What is getting in the way of the Australian criminal courts providing justice to sexual assault survivors?
#journalism #Australia #Law #Legal #AustralianLegal #VAW #GenderedViolence #Rape #RapeCulture #SexualAssault #Crime #Criminology #CriminalJustice
Hello! I am an associate professor of sociology at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts (USA).
I teach mostly Intro to Sociology, Criminology, Law and Society, and Methods.
My general areas of professional interest have included qualitative research, stigma, firearms ownership and use, and legal consciousness. But lately I’ve been expanding into other areas as well, such as medical sociology.
What could #metascience learn from #criminology for the prevention of #researchmisconduct and #researchintegrity violations? In a seminar at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), I discussed with researchers in criminology how theories and findings from the field may be applied in the field of meta research.
Blog: https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/how-can-criminology-help-reduce-research-integrity-violations/
Slides: https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/how-can-criminology-help-reduce-research-integrity-violations.pptx
#peerreview
This is a a good reminder for Police, Politicians, the Public and Media about leaping to conclusions - particularly about criminal motives.
Investigations take time and with this motives tends to be the last fact that is established unless a confession can be extracted from the alleged offender.
Unfortunately with antisemitism, due to the unprecedented level of Israeli State interest and foreign interferences (particularly with information wars to deteriorate political and public sentiment towards Palestinians), motives aren’t as straight forward.
Publication alert
In "Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK", Neli Demireva and Sergio Lo Iacono show that gambling outlets are significantly and positively associated with different types of crime even when controlling for other businesses, the areas’ demographic and socio-economic characteristics
Open access 
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241298696
#sociology #criminology #socialscience #crime
@sociology @criminology
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In the spirit of Christmas and open science, I'm sharing some work I did that never quite got out of the door! Quite proud of this, looking at the impact of 2017 bail reforms on domestic revictimisation.
Jude Law’s “The Order” explores a real-life white supremacist group. #Criminology experts warn its themes aren’t just history—they echo rhetoric still spreading online and inspiring modern acts of terror. https://theconversation.com/the-chilling-crime-spree-of-the-order-and-its-lasting-effect-on-todays-white-supremacists-244804 @bookstodon #Bookstodon @histodons #Histodons
