Vickie Barrett

Making your articles open access: Opportunities and choices Open access (OA) is criminology’s future. It makes our field more scientific, impactful, and equitable. Any output can be OA: articles and books, data and code, syllabi and lectures, basically…

If you’re an academic criminologist who doesn’t automatically make all your work #OpenAccess, please take 10 minutes to read this short article by Scott Jacques on why you absolutely should be:

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Call for participants Did you work as a prison officer in Ireland during 1970-2010? We are collecting an oral history of prison officer work in Ireland during 1970-2010 We want to learn about your experiences and memories of working in Irish prisons during this period Research team: Dr Louise Brangan, University of Strathclyde Dr Colette Barry, University College Dublin What's involved? Taking part in an interview (in-person or via Zoom) with one of the researchers This will cover your experiences and perspectives on working as a prison officer Who can take part? We want to interview people who worked as prison officers in any Irish prison(s) at any time during 1970-2010 This includes people who currently work as prison officers and people who have retired or moved on from this work. All participation is voluntary and confidential Interested in participating or would like more information? Please contact: Colette.Barry1@ucd.ie Ethical approval granted by University of Strathclyde Ethics Committee. Research approval granted by Irish Prison Service Research Office.

📌 Call for interview participants 📌

We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.

Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here:

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I am conducting a study of probation practitioner wellbeing. So if you are a probation practitioner in England and Wales, or know others that are, please consider completing the survey (and sharing it) below.

Many thanks.

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Education Policy, Children and Violence | Youth Endowment Fund Our Education Policy, Children and Violence guidance, provides education policymakers across England and Wales with eight recommendations on how to prevent children’s involvement in violence. Recommen...

Today, YEF publishes our "Education Policy, Children and Violence" report. 8 affordable, deliverable policy, inspection and regulation changes that will reduce violence. Full report here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ... Summary below 👇

The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right The life course paradigm brought a focus on continuity and change in offending across the entire life span to criminology. Early research evolved to captur

The BJC have just published this review symposium of our book "The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice
Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below!

#AcademicSky #Criminology

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Just out! If you’re into #criminology , #lifecourse & linking individual lives with macro-structures, this might be for you!

We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example.

#AcademicSky

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Project ADDER: Impact evaluation

The long-awaited evaluation of Project ADDER is now out, and makes fascinating reading for all with a concern for illicit drug problems in England and Wales. A thread: 1/? ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-adder-impact-evaluation/project-adder-impact-evaluation#key-findings

An image of an IfG event. What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services? Monday 17 March, 12:30-13:30 Speakers: Professor Harry Annison, Rehabilitating Probation Project Member, and Professor of Criminal Justice at Southampton Law School Helen Berresford, Director of External Engagement at Nacro Sam Freedman, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government Martin Jones CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Probation The event will be chaired by Cassia Rowland, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government.

EVENT: What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services?

Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...

The pathways of excluded school pupils into (and out of) the criminal justice system In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Vickie Barrett explores the complex pathways of excluded school pupils and their interactions with the criminal justi...

A short blog about my research exploring the relationship between school exclusions and offending

Vickie Barrett on LinkedIn: ADR UK Research Fellows: Ministry of Justice & Department for Education… Excited to be working on this project exploring the relationship between school exclusion and offending...

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Fantastic opportunity to do a fascinating PhD with 2 brilliant and supportive supervisors

I’m looking to appoint two PhD students for two funded projects exploring the intersection of #DigitalTechnologies, #AI and #FinancialCrime.

We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.

Personality and Crime: A Topical Issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie: Zeitschrift für Psychologie: Vol 0, No 0

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨

Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged.

Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology

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Die verunsicherte Gesellschaft: Nehmen wir Kriminalität verzerrt wahr? | MDR.DE Nach den Attacken in Solingen und Mannheim haben viele Menschen das Gefühl, Deutschland sei unsicherer geworden. Dabei zeigen Statistiken etwas anderes. Woher kommt die Diskrepanz? Dazu Sozialpsycholo...

Im MDR aktuell Podcast konnte ich über Kriminalität und Kriminalitätswahrnehmung in Deutschland sprechen: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions.
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UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

For non-UK academics out there, here is a list of UK universities making job/degree programme cuts.

I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse.

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Handbook on Crime and Inequality ‘The Handbook on Crime and Inequality provides a comprehensive and exciting collection of cutting-edge contributions on the complex relationship between different aspects of crime and inequality. It i...

Out in January!

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Perfect timing thanks! Just writing an article about this

PhD Studentship in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London Explore a PhD Studentship in Law. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.

Come and do a PhD supervised by me! (or my Royal Holloway colleagues) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW355/p...

Reminder - call for papers closing tomorrow - The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University.

The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm

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Congratulations Rachel! 🎊

The art of Teaching About Violence Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · Episode

Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?

Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.

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#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy

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📢 New policy insights “How to Halve Violence Against Women and Girls”. Essential reading for policymakers and researchers. @profdavidgadd.bsky.social, Dr Caroline Miles, Prof Barry Godfrey.

Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry...

#VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology

For my first post in this new world, I am pleased to share a paper just published in Theoretical Criminology - Beyond 'police discretion'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Liverpool Cathedral Liverpool 2023 Prisons Week Lecture: Dr Shona Minson – Changemakers

Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice.
I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us.
I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...

‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in wo...

New from @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social, Rosie Shorrocks and me on the gender gap at the 2024 UK GE. We find that the gender gap looked different at this election, shifting from a Lab/Con gap to a broader left-right gap.

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The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University.

The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...

Parliamentlive.tv Justice Committee

Lord Timpson up before the House of Commons Justice Committee tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2.30 pm

Watch it here

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Early Career Researcher vulnerability and policing funding call opens - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has launched the third call of its annual Early Career Researcher Development Fund.

The @vp-centre.bsky.social Early Career Research Development Fund supports UK based researchers to pursue innovative collaborative research in the field of vulnerability & policing - the current call is open. Deadline 13 January 2025. 👇🏽

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