Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social Professor of Legal Design. Associate Head, Lancaster University Law School. Editor-in-Chief, Legal Design Journal.
SSPC at the University of Southampton @sspcatsoton.bsky.social News and updates from the Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Department at University of Southampton
14th in the UK for Sociology and 4th for Criminology (Times University Rankings 2026)
#AcademicSky #Sociology #CrimSky #Criminology
Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social sociologist, interested in organizing for change, solidarity, intersectionality, inequality, she/her, editor at @sociologicalreview.bsky.social
Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social Academic. Families. Research methods.
Take a look: academicswives.co.uk
Creator for Meta AI (they stole my work)
Na’amodnik
You can’t DM me here
Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity.
Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️⚧️
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
Craig Webber @craigwebber.bsky.social Criminologist at The University of Southampton, interested in policing, technology, and psychology. Currently working on a project using technology in police custody suites to make information delivery easier, possibly diversionary.
Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Southampton. Political sociologist researching queer lives, care, mutual aid, young people.
(they/them/elle)
Ashton Kingdon @ashkingdon.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Southampton Researching all Things #OnlineExtremism #Terrorism #ClimateChange #Gaming #Ethics #VisualMethods #FarRight
University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social The official account for the University of Southampton. Founding member of the Russell Group.
Ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide.
@jennyfleming.bsky.social @jennyfleming.bsky.social 
Mark Brown @m-j-bro.bsky.social Former Associate lecturer in Criminology at University of Soton. Also did a bit of policing in the past
René Ropac @rrop.bsky.social Quantitative Criminal Justice Researcher. Senior Research Associate at Data Collaborative for Justice (DCJ) at John Jay College. Views are my own.
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social Economist & public safety expert. Author, The Science of Second Chances. Host/author, @ProbCausation podcast & substack. Passionate about ROI.
https://jenniferdoleac.com
John Roman @johnkroman.bsky.social Director, Center on Public Safety and Justice, NORC at the University of Chicago. Essays: https://johnkroman.substack.com/.
Walter @walterkatz.bsky.social Policy and politics at the intersection of race, tech, and justice.
MuckRack: https://muckrack.com/walter-katz/articles
Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social Co-Founder AH Datalytics. NOLA kid. Longhorn. Former CIA officer. 2004 Intramural Softball Champion (C-League). Not a criminologist!
Newsletter: https://jasher.substack.com/
Jasher@ahdatalytics.com
"Some genius, Jeff Asher" - Ann Coulter
David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and Director @crimrxiv.com. All crime data are wrong, but some are useful
Kwame Holmes @kwameholmes.bsky.social Black, Queer and Carceral Studies, teach in Bard College’s Human Rights program, writing about infrastructures of “safety.” Learning to podcast
Alyasah Ali Sewell, Your Public Sociologist for the Day @aasewell.bsky.social Winship Distinguished Research Prof & Associate Prof of Sociology at Emory. Critical Racism Studies & Intersectionality. Black Feminist. Gender Expansive. Lefty. #Blackademic. ✊🏾🌈
linktr.ee/aasewell
Kelsey Kramer, PhD @dr-klkramer.bsky.social PhD | VAP of Soc. @ Bates College | Intersectional Criminologist | A blend of professional & personal life | #Spoonie 🥄 | They/She 🏳️🌈 | (re)posts/likes = my own
#AcademicSky
#CriminalJustice
#Criminology
#Punishment
#Inequalities
#Health&Disability
Stephanie Fohring @drstephfohring.bsky.social Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Criminology, Northumbria University
Project Lead: Women's Online Wellbeing (WOW) a European study of digitalised violence against women
Francis Pakes @francispakes.bsky.social Professor in Criminology. Nordic prison expert and keen runner, dog walker and chess enthusiast 
Elizabeth Griffiths @bethgriffiths.bsky.social Professor at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice; criminologist and sociologist; my time is spent reading, writing, sailing, and anything dogs
John Shjarback @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social Policing/Criminal Justice Researcher. Associate Professor in the Dept. of Law & Justice Studies at Rowan University. Views are my own.
Johnshjarback.com
@jessicahenryjustice.com @jessicahenryjustice.com Public defender for 10 years. Prof. for 20. The system was broken then. It's broken now. Wrongful convictions | Death penalty | Second chances. Smoke but No Fire (UC Press 2020)| Book on second chances (UC Press, forthcoming). Host: Just Justice podcast.
Clare Farmer 📚⚖️🐾 @clarefarmer.bsky.social Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University, Australia;
SFHEA; Adult Parole Board, Victoria, Australia
💜🐕🍫📚⚖️🫖
Former Magistrate, England
🧐justice, policing, anti-social behaviour, trauma
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2905-2173
#FirstGen CCC/Oxon
Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com Associate Professor of Sociology in Norway—with a global perspective. Research: victorshammas.com. Newsletter on politics, culture, and social theory: theorybrief.com.
Chris Harris @charris.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Criminology & Justice Studies, UMass Lowell | Research focused on police accountability | Husband, father of 2 | Super Nerd | He/Him | My will is not my own
Amy Murphy (she/her) @murftacular.bsky.social I do the crossword in sharpie and I never learned the shortcut for undo
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net College prof, ex-UK cop, host of the Reducing Crime podcast, scientific advisor to the IACP. In my spare time, I try not to crash planes.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BOJIm0QAAAAJ
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0730-6761
Richard Wortley @richard100.bsky.social Crime science
Aurigny.bsky.social @aurigny.bsky.social Wildlife, Criminology, Probation, Channel Islander, light aircraft and aviation. 🏴🇯🇪🇬🇬🛩️🌍
Stan Clarkson @stanclarkson.bsky.social Interests include Criminology, Juvenile Justice, Sports, fitness and current events. Wine lover, craft beer enthusiast and foodie. Wake Forest and Florida State University Criminology Alum.
www.linkedin.com/in/stanclarkson
Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social PI of #ERCStG #GreenFrontier 🔎#politics of #conservation in #EU
#Rewilding conflicts @FNPWUR
🌳 #EnvJustice #Commons & #IllegalLogging @ULBSibiu
🐻 #WildlifeCrime @BeastlyProject @ShefUniPolitics
#StopGenocide
josh warren, m.a. (they/he) @socijosh.bsky.social 👨🏼🏫 phd candidate and instructor at kent state
🐆 visiting lecturer at uni of pittsburgh
🔍 queer space, inequalities, social movements, kink/fetish and subcultures, queer crim, oral history, visual methods
📍pittsburgh, pa
https://forms.gle/RGbAiBk5BcM6WMMU9
Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
Dr Jodi Lane @drjodilane.bsky.social Criminology professor @ UF. Reactions to Crime|Evaluation Research/Justice Programs. Boy & Dog Mom. Audiobook junkie. Opinions mine, not those of the University of Florida
Thomas Abt @thomasabt.bsky.social Author, BLEEDING OUT. Founding Director, VRC. Associate Research Professor, UMD. Senior Fellow, CCJ. Opinions, my own.
Rachel Barkow @rachelbarkow.bsky.social NYU law professor and faculty director of the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Author of Prisoners of Politics (2019) and Justice Abandoned (2025).
Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social
Juvenile justice researcher from a developmental psych perspective ▪️ Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University ▪️ Treasurer, Lansing Board of Education
www.TheADJustLab.com
Levin Güver @levinguever.bsky.social PhD student at UCL working on criminal jurisprudence.
Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social Studying political violence, conflict, state repression. Professor at University of Mannheim. Currently Director Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). she/her
Andrew Madrigal @ajmadrigal.bsky.social System-Impacted Scholar, Innocence/Exoneree Advocate
ABD @ George Mason Criminology
Ryan Scrivens @ryanscrivens.bsky.social Associate Professor, Michigan State University; a criminologist mostly studying on- and offline behaviors and patterns of the extreme right.
ryanscrivens.com
John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social Professor of psychology who studies terrorism, forensic psychology, and school safety📍Atlanta, GA via Ireland. Seven Summits 🏔️ (5/7). Adopt don’t shop 🐶 Personal account.
Jay Szkola @jszkola.bsky.social Assistant Prof. @Rowan, PhD from John Jay, spatial crime nerd, gun violence researcher, dad, husband. Scholarly interests are in community based violence prevention programs.
Rod Graham (The Neighborhood Sociologist) @roderickgraham.bsky.social Gadfly | I post about social science, culture, and progressive politics | Views are my own
https://rodgraham.substack.com/- J J.E. Peirce @jenpeirce.bsky.social Researcher - crim, prisons & jails, LatinAmerica.
Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social Criminology, public policy, research and experiments
https://sites.google.com/researchdesign.uk/alexsutherland
Newest paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-025-09726-0
Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social I teach and research criminology stuff at the University of Oxford - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader. I am also Chair of Cyclox - https://www.cyclox.org. You'll find me musing on ecologies of security, policing, urban mobilities and Arsenal FC
Oxford Crim GSA @crimgsa.bsky.social 
Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
Emily Roper @emilyroper.bsky.social DPhil Criminology at University of Oxford
Borders, state violence, Türkiye, Syria
Currently learning Tamil (badly), Turkish (slowly), Arabic (always)
Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Oxford. Researching on feminism, victims' justice, international criminal law, counter-terrorism
Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @dpruoxford.bsky.social Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Reposts/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements.
Iulia Cristiana Vatau @iuliavatau.bsky.social Drug Policy and Therapeutic Justice Scholar pursuing a DPhil in Criminology at the University of Oxford. Researching the rehabilitative culture of drug treatment courts in Chile
Lauren Fox @laurenrfox.bsky.social DPhil student at Oxford University researching UK Immigration Tribunals
Interested in border criminology, feminist theory, and immigration law
Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social Border Criminologies draws together researchers working in #criminology on #bordercontrol. Retweets/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements.
https://linktr.ee/bordercrim
Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social writing about the UK's criminalisation of asylum seeking · border criminologies · otherwise found in cold water somewhere
Adam Kluge @arkluge.bsky.social phd candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk | formerly @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | he/him
interested in punishment, violence, stigma, family, politics, and media. social science theory too.
more here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/adam-kluge
christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social Rutgers prof. Research: punishment & inequality, race, computational social science. Deep Springs, Columbia, CUNY alum.
Sara Wakefield @sarawakefield.bsky.social Sociologist. Criminologist. Depends on the day which one comes first. Studying incarceration, inequality, and family life. Prone to posting thoughts about soccer and my family that should probably be texts to my friends.
Kevin Drakulich @drakulich.bsky.social Sociologist, Criminologist. Usually online to learn about new research.
Robert Apel @bobapel.bsky.social Social scientist at Rutgers with expertise in criminology and social policy
Asad L. Asad @asadasad.bsky.social Sociologist, writing on immigration, surveillance, and inequality. Author of ENGAGE AND EVADE: http://bit.ly/m/asadbook
Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 (MA). Sr Research Associate, (B)exited academia.
Work: Criminal justice reform, public health, CBPAR, women & girls, IPV/IPH, substance use & harm reduction.
Play: Fantasy crochet, pottery, TTRPGs.
bextraordinarycreatures.com
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social Sociologist studying how our social structures make sexual violence more likely to occur. Author of ON THE WRONG SIDE. Co-founder of Beyond Compliance Consulting. PhD UMich.
Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social Sociologist & demographer at Brown University. I study the political & structural drivers of population health.
Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com.
Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Brenden Beck @brendenbeck.net Sociologist at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice studying policing, city budgets, suburbs, and housing. brenden.beck@rutgers.edu
Jill McCorkel @jillmccorkel.bsky.social Crm at Maynooth University 🇮🇪 and Soc/Crm at Villanova University 🇺🇸. Fond of dogs, parrots, & David Bowie. Philly & Dublin.
Max Osborn @maxosb.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 | he/they | queer/feminist/critical criminologist | assistant prof at villanova | studies queer and trans victimization, resilience, resource access, and community-building
Andrea Leverentz @amlevere.bsky.social Sociologist, criminologist, owl target.
Books:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/intersecting-lives/paper
https://nyupress.org/9781479862726/beyond-recidivism/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-ex-prisoners-dilemma/9780813562278/
Erin Eife @erineife.bsky.social assistant professor in criminology at george mason | south philly | she/her
Jeffrey Butts @jeffreybutts.bsky.social Research Professor and Center Director, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City Univ of New York). Kid from Ohio, living in Manhattan - https://JeffreyButts.net -
#justice #criminology #research
Dr. Alex Piquero @dralexpiquero.bsky.social Professor of Sociology & Criminology and Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar at The 🟧_🟩. Former Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (appointed by President Biden). 🇨🇺-🇺🇸
Jillian Sunderland @jilliansunderland.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto.
Masculinities, violence, organizations.
www.JillianSunderland.com
Michael Sierra-Arévalo @michaelsierraa.bsky.social Sociologist: UT Austin 🤘🏽
Author: The Danger Imperative📕💀👮🏽♂️
lnk.bio/michaelsierraa
Danielle Slakoff, PhD @dslakoffphd.bsky.social Award-winning Criminologist. Associate Professor #SacState. Research: Media Portrayal of Crime/Victims, Domestic Violence, Gender, Race. Views my Own. Pronounced “Slay-coff"
Justin Nix @jnixy.bsky.social Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNO.
Forever a Gamecock though.
Research interests: police, procedural justice, use of force
Chris Smith @cmsmithsoc.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto | researches gender, crime, cities, violence, and networks | she/her first gen 🏳️🌈
http://chrismsmithsociology.wordpress.com
Lauren Moton @motonlauren.bsky.social Black feminist and queer criminology | sex work | critical trafficking studies | Assistant Professor @CUNY John Jay College
Dr. Erin Kearns @kearnserinm.bsky.social Director of Law Enforcement Partnerships at NCITE_COE.
Associate Professor at UNO SCCJ.
Avid traveler, casual yogi. 
Professor Laura Huey @drlaurahuey.bsky.social Criminologist, Editor of Police Practice & Research, Editor of Evidence Base. Royal Society of Canada College alumna. Member ISC Roster of Global Experts
Jarrett Blaustein @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social Associate Professor and Director of Education at ANU RegNet | Associate Editor of Policing & Society | Researching adaptive policing responses to climate change
Ian A. Silver @ianasilver.bsky.social Quantitative and Public Health Criminologist at RTI interested in Youth Justice, Corrections, Pretrial, Criminal Justice Policy, and Applied Statistics. All opinions are my own. Personal Website: www.ianasilver.com.
Oren Gur @orengur.bsky.social Philly. Criminologist. Prosecution and other research, policy, data. Likes are bookmarks, opinions are mine. Data.philadao.com for you
Jared R. Dmello, Ph.D. @jaredrdmello.bsky.social Senior Lecturer of Criminology, University of Adelaide | PhD, Criminology | Illicit Networks, SNA, Terrorism | Runner | Disney Super Fan | #FirstGen | Live and work on Kaurna land, *Views are my own
https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/jared.dmello
Elias Nader @eliasnader.bsky.social Criminologist studying policing and desistance in young adulthood
https://www.kent.edu/sociology/elias-nader
Monica Pons Hernandez @monicapons.bsky.social Ph.D. • MSCA SEAS Postdoctoral Research Fellow UiB • IUU Fishing and Wildlife Trafficking • Green Criminology, Crimes of the Powerful, Qualitative Methods
Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Criminologist interested mainly in punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration… increasingly explored via creative methods. Also a singer-songwriter, when I can find the time.
Volkan Topalli @volkantopalli.bsky.social Criminologist | @GSUCJC | Andrew Young School | Urban Crime | Future Crime | Offender Decision-Making |🗽
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Morgan C. Williams, Jr. @mwilljr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics at @barnard-college.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Interested in crime & criminal justice through the prism of racial inequality.
Website: https://morganwilliamsjr.com/
Beth Colgan @bethcolgan.bsky.social Law professor at UCLA Law, studying fines, forfeitures, financial punishment, and poverty.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1478076
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Cars&Crime #OpenResearch #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities.
jmpinasanchez.github.io/
Robert Stewart @robertstewart.io Minnesota (Owatonna, St Paul, UMN) and Maryland (College Park)
Asst Prof at UMD Criminology (criminal records, collateral consequences, public policy, data)
"Funny here and there," according to one student
robertstewart.io