My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.
Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
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Important point, Gavin.
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One to watch.
18.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prison co-governance in a Brazilian prison: The role of prison gangs
Drawing on Gramscian concepts Prof Stegemann Dieter interprets the prison as a hegemonic apparatus and the PCC as a counter-hegemonic force.
💭 Are you interested in learning more about how prisons in Brazil are governed, and what role major organised crime groups like the PCC play?
Join us 26 March, 4pm (UK time) for this online talk with Prof. Vitor Stegemann Dieter to find out more.
Register now bit.ly/brazil-prison
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OPPORTUNITY: Would you like to be our Communications Coordinator?
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Could you be our Communications Coordinator?
This is a part-time role (two days per week) to cover a staff colleague on maternity leave for 12 months from April 2025.
Deadline to apply: Friday 21 March 2025.
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YouTube video by Piers Cross
Boarding on Insanity With Dr. Gabor Maté: Childhood Trauma & Our Leaders: Full Trailer | Piers Cross
Just watched this thought-provoking documentary about boarding school and trauma. It's worth a watch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=stMv...
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UofG led survey shows that racial discrimination continues to rise in Scotland
Around one-third (35%) of people in Scotland’s Black, Asian, and visible minority ethnic communities say they have faced discrimination within the past two years - and confidence in anti-discriminatio...
New survey findings show that experiences of racial discrimination have not decreased over the last decade, when placed alongside earlier studies, and that confidence in anti-discrimination efforts has continued to decline. @profkatsmith.bsky.social @lizaston.bsky.social @profellenstu.bsky.social
10.03.2025 08:24 — 👍 25 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
Gavin, this is super helpful data for a project I'm working on. Thanks for posting.
05.03.2025 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Learning from tragedy | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
A report written by Susie Hulley and me on the potential benefits, risks, and limitations of Offensive Weapons Homicide Reviews (OWHRs). www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/learning-tra...
05.03.2025 07:40 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fancy a life changing opportunity?
We're looking for a person with character and chemistry.https://www.oasisuk.org/job/lead-youth-practitioner-ae-oasis-hub-waterloo/
13.02.2025 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ok so Joined Blue sky @midwifeteacher.bsky.social
Let’s see how this goes
Total pleasure to work together on this book ( as always 💪🏻)
04.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds).
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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The Justice Committee will hear from organisations and charities working across prisons and probation during the first evidence session in Parliament on Tuesday 4 February of its inquiry ‘Rehabilitation and resettlement: ending the cycle of reoffending’. The session will be on Parliament TV.
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Health research with people in prison or on probation in England
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
Have you been involved in health-related research with people in prison or on probation in England? If so, the Chief Medical Officer wants to hear from you.
Complete the 10-15 minute survey by midnight on 26 January, to contribute to the CMO's latest report 👇
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/P1ZZ4N/
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Great opportunity for someone!
23.01.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Women’s Justice Board
The Women’s Justice Board has the clear goal of reducing the number of women in prison and addressing the distinct needs of women in the criminal justice system.
One for colleagues in England & Wales:
The Women's Justice Board meet for first time today.
They are seeking Expressions of Interest to appoint 7 specialists to Women’s Justice Partnership Delivery Group. Examples: Chief Execs, indep. experts, women with lived experience
www.gov.uk/government/g...
21.01.2025 15:29 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to @ungripp.bsky.social for continuing to highlight this travesty of justice. Thanks to my
MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social for her support.
20.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats Ed.
16.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice article by @crimegirl.co.uk on pseudo-law.
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Your legal rights on remand: A guide to help young adults on remand to understand their legal rights if they are remanded in custody.
#RightsOnRemand
#GuideToRemand
Our guide 'Your legal rights on remand', is designed to help young adults understand their legal rights if they are remanded in custody. It is aimed at 18- to 25-year-olds but may also be helpful to older adults on remand.
⬇️ Download it here: howardleague.org/publications...
15.01.2025 14:18 — 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
A good opportunity for someone.
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🟡New Workshop!
Prof. Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham will give an online workshop on 'Institutional Memory in the Victorian-era Prison' on Wed 29 Jan, 3pm (UK time).
👉 bit.ly/victorian-pr...
#criminology #victorianprison #prison #workshop #history #incarceration
15.01.2025 16:35 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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