shadd maruna

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

Conor Gearty was, without hesitation, the best academic writer I’ve read. He was also a thoroughly decent and kind human being who fearlessly used his position speak truth to power.
Conor did law, politics and academia the right way and he will be sorely missed.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.

E.P.A. to Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters The data, from thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities, is the country’s most comprehensive way to track greenhouse gases.

Breaking News: The EPA moved to stop requiring polluters to report their emissions of greenhouse gases. The proposal would end a key tool the government uses to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change.

One of the defining features of authoritarian society is the ruthless but selective use of the machinery of repression—and associated propaganda about criminality and “order”—to immunize predatory behavior of the powerful while crushing everyone else into profitable obedience.

Spot on!

Great headline. tsunami of lies. Death of the truth. Awful.

Scoop: Trump plans executive order to end "cashless bail" in D.C. It's the latest step in the Trump-driven federal takeover of the capital city's law enforcement.

So counterproductive and, frankly, stupid

Cashless bail reduces crime. Pretrial incarceration causes more crime than pretrial detention prevents

Also, why should only people with money have access to mercy?

www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...

Chicago doesn't even crack the top 20 most dangerous cities. Denver has a higher crime rate than Chicago.

And we are hearing the same nonsense about London and other UK cities being overrun by crime and bedlam too. Social media culture allows for moral panics on steroids.

Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of crime exaggerating the statistical risks is a constant of surveys over my 79 year life. Media and right wing politicians have much to answer for. And repairing broken windows
is good. Better still is socioeconomic policy enhancing security and welfare

so it’s tyranny then?

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say the Trump administration is trying to coerce him to plead guilty to the charges he is facing by promising to deport him to Costa Rica — and threatening to deport him to Uganda if he doesn’t. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

🚨 League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social

Cackling Maxwell Smears Prince Andrew’s Accuser on DOJ Tape The convicted child sex offender dismissed allegations against Prince Andrew for jaw-dropping reasons.

By all means, let’s believe the heinous sex offender who lies like she breathes. Todd Blanche is shameful for conducitng this idiotic inquiry designed only to protect Trump www.thedailybeast.com//cackling-ma...

Why Shabana Mahmood’s outlook on prisons is wrong | Letter Letter: The justice secretary has not understood many of the issues surrounding the prisons crisis, say Deborah Coles, Joe Sim and Steve Tombs

Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social, @debcoles13.bsky.social & me
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@carceralabolition.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @inquest-org.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social @timnewburn.bsky.social @waylon18.bsky.social @shaddmaruna.bsky.social

Under con- ditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.

“Trump says” vs. actual data on crime dropping in DC is not “Trump says vs. the Mayor says.”
It’s “Trump says” vs. fact.

Trump’s “crime & squalor” excuse is pretext & his naming other cities all w/Black mayors as his next targets compels an honest confrontation w/Trump’s racism & authoritarianism.

The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, jus...

Hey #Criminology

It lives!

29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics

It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)

#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology

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Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulation The agency said its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harmed people had caused "years of uncertainty for automakers."

Trump EPA moves to kill "holy grail" of climate regulation

One of the most consequential things Trump is doing. Deserves as much attention as the Epstein mess. But good luck with that. He is changing the policy so that greenhouse gases cannot be regulated and climate change can’t be addressed. Trump is killing the future.

Just learned that Mike Johnson, before coming to Congress claimed to be the Dean of a law school named after a pedophile. Which may explain a few things. Notably…

mandy patinkin & his family gave a powerful interview, and this part, phewww

*Another* heatwave arrives this week and it could be the most intense yet. But prisons are ill-prepared to protect prisoners & staff from environmental harm.

✍️ A new paper examines indoor environmental conditions across multiple prisons

❌ It’s not good.

www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/stale-and-st...

Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners.

Inside prison walls, here's how a book program is changing lives

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond books, creating libraries made by former prisoners www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Looking forward to this one…

The podcast @crmnlgy.bsky.social and I made is in the Guardian today!

Listen to Young Warriors here: open.spotify.com/show/1KLXLNF...

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Fixed term teaching post (10 months) in critical criminology in the University of Liverpool's Department of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMV424/l...

Better late than never. I hope