Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development @acjrd.bsky.social Informing the collaborative development of effective evidence-based policy and practice in criminal justice
https://www.acjrd.ie/
drtomboland.bsky.social @drtomboland.bsky.social Sociologist at University College Cork - writing on critique, culture, creativity, researching unemployment, welfare, work.
EmergentWake @emergentwake.bsky.social he/him
dr zach @zachlev.bsky.social Assistant Prof (teaching) at Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (UofT) | School Safety | Risk | Active Shooter Drills | Compassion | Young People & Justice | Awesome Trivia Host
Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social News re. Jail, Prison, Abolition, Decarceration, Criminology, Addiction, Sex Work, Blood Borne Pathogens, et al. ($) = Paywall.
Dolores Fernández Pérez @doloresfernandez.bsky.social Psychologist | Assistant Professor (PhD) in Criminology at UCLM (Spain)| Criminology Research Center 🎓🔍 | Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence | Passionate about human behavior, plot twists & dark minds 🎬🕵️♀️
Chantal Fahmy, PhD @chantalfahmy.bsky.social Associate Professor, UTSA
Associate Editor, Criminal Justice and Behavior
Co-Founder, ASC's Division of Health & Disability Criminology
research interests: prison reentry | health criminology | social support | corrections | incarceration & public health
Chris Cunneen @cunneen.bsky.social Researcher, writer and professor of criminology. Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research, University of Technology, Sydney. Living on Dharug and Gundungurra Lands. Views my own.
American Society of Criminology @amersoccriminology.bsky.social The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.
@reubenjmiller.bsky.social @reubenjmiller.bsky.social 
The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social Building a more humane and effective response to crime.
Join: https://howardleague.org/membership/
Give: http://PayPal.Me/howardleague
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.
European Journal Probation @europeanjprobation.bsky.social Account for the European Journal of Probation, a SAGE academic journal. Journal Editors: Ioan Durnescu, Hannah Graham, Martine Herzog-Evans, and Marijke Roosen, with Ester Blay Gil as EJP Book Review Editor.
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/EJP
British Society of Criminology Hate Crime Network @bschcnetwork.bsky.social The Official Bluesky Page for the BSC Hate Crime Network. Follow for News, Updates, Conferences, Discussion Groups and Latest Developments.
Tara Lai Quinlan @quinlantl.bsky.social Lawyer & Associate Professor. Working on criminal law & procedure, diversity and inequality in policing, counter-terrorism & the courts in the United Kingdom & United States. Book: Police Diversity: Beyond The Blue (2025).
Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
Julie Berg @juliemberg.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow | Scottish Centre of Crime and Justice Research | Research on new harmscapes and everyday security governance
Lisa_White_ @lisa-white.bsky.social Interested in state crime, harm and human rights. Views my own.
Previously TwitterX @Lisa_White_
UCD Criminology and Criminal Justice @ucdcrim.bsky.social The UCD Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice is based in the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Amanda Haynes @amanda-haynes.bsky.social Sociologist researching criminal justice inequalities, hate crime, hateful ideologies, algorithmic harms. T&L interests in ethical AI, EDI, UDL. Fan of all creatures, furry, feathered and scaly. University of Limerick/ECSH. Opinions my own after coffee.
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh 
Volkan Topalli @volkantopalli.bsky.social Criminologist | @GSUCJC | Andrew Young School | Urban Crime | Future Crime | Offender Decision-Making |🗽
Paddy Hillyard @paddyzemia.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Sociology. Human Rights and climate activist, former chair of Independent Water Review Panel, Zemiologist. Latest book: Decades of Deceit: The Stalker Affair and its Legacy. https://www.beyondthepalebooks.com/
Kayleigh Charlton @kcharlton.bsky.social Research Associate at CYCJ | Queer Politics | Justice Inequalities | She/Her
Michael Bryden, PhD @michaelkbryden.bsky.social Criminologist @ UTS Jumbunna Institute | PhD from Cambridge on police legitimacy | host of Rethinking Deviance podcast | Palawa descendant.
Meghan A. Novisky, PhD @drnovisky.bsky.social Criminologist at #UC Corrections Institute. Co-Founder of the American Society of Criminology's Division of Health + Disability Criminology.
https://www.meghannoviskyphd.com/
Dr Caroline J Bald @carolinejbald.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Work. The Open University, UK. Research: #justice social work, braininjury, AI
education. RSW prev Probation.[BISWG.co.uk chair & BASW Criminal Justice Co-chair]. Founding Co-Chair ESWRA SW Crime & CJ SIG https://linktr.ee/CarolineJBald
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). 🇨🇺-🇺🇸
@susanbaidawi.bsky.social @susanbaidawi.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Stanley @proflizzystanley.bsky.social Criminology, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. State crimes, social justice, abuse in care, climate crises, incarceration, rights. She/her. Own views
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research
Dr Richard Gater @richgater.bsky.social Researcher at the Centre for Adult Social Care Research, Cardiff University. Interested in Gender, Health and Well-Being, Social Class and Masculinities. Views are my own
Helen Nichols @drhelennichols.bsky.social Reader in Criminology, University of Hull 🔸 Visiting Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice, University of Lincoln🔸 Principal Fellow HEA
Prof Mark Walters (FAcSS) @markawalters.bsky.social Prof of Criminal Law & Criminology I Expert on hate crime I Author of Criminalising Hate: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-08125-5 I Chair, International Network for Hate Studies.
Dog daddy to Ozzie
LGB with the T
Neurodiverse
He/him
Jon Garland @jongarland.bsky.social Criminologist at Surrey University, researching hate crime, prisons, policing. Norwich City fan. Ageing mod
Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
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
Marina Hiller Foshaugen @foshaugen.bsky.social Criminologist (PhD) // Associate Professor at The Norwegian Police University College
Prof Ruth Patrick @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social Professor of Social & Public Policy at University of Glasgow
Perimenopausal | neurodivergent | navigating parenting kids with SEND
Vaclav Walach @vwalach.bsky.social Criminologist: critical, cultural, narrative / based in Prague, Czechia
Yvette Tinsley @yvettetinsley.bsky.social Professor of Law at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, co-director Te Herenga Waka Centre for Justice Innovation. Criminal justice researcher. Song lyric obsessed.
Andrew Percy @prof-andy.bsky.social Prof Quantitative Criminology QUB.
Interested in things like adolescent alcohol and drug use; cyber- victimisation and harm; prevention; latent variable modeling & longitudinal research. Aresnal Champions 2026!!
Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Social control, crime, quant methods, R coding
clanfear.github.io
Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social The School of Law @universityofleeds.bsky.social is one of the leading law schools in the UK and has been providing instruction in law since its inception in 1899.
Sharon Grace @profsgrace.bsky.social Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Policy at the University of York. Interested in criminalized women, drug policy and practice. All views my own.
Nicola Montagna @nickmontagna.bsky.social Associate professor in Criminology and Sociology university of Salerno, previously Senior lecturer at Middlesex University - just left X
Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social Associate Professor, political scientist, Dep of Gov, Univ of Essex, governance in Africa, mixed methods, Visiting Senior Fellow LSE Dep of Methodology; ESRC MCCRA; East Westphalian
https://sites.google.com/site/floriangkern
Robbie Gilligan @robbiegilligan.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Active in research relating to children in care, care leavers and care experienced adults. 
Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University @brettsmithprof.bsky.social - Moving Social Work http://bit.ly/4mexJU4. https://bit.ly/3ZAC635
- CMOs Physical Activity & Disability Lead bit.ly/34jX9xb
- Coproduction http://bit.ly/3L1NGdI
- ResearchGate: Qualitative & PA disability papers https://bit.ly/436DsF7
Danny Whiting @drdannywhiting.bsky.social Clinical Associate Professor in Forensic Psychiatry | @institutemh.org.uk @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | NottsHC
Forensic Research Nottingham: shorturl.at/cxbrt
NIHR CORAS study: shorturl.at/AlTnW
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Amin Asfari @aminasfari.bsky.social Associate Professor & LFS Chair of Police Studies, University of Regina | Police & Minorities | Hate Crimes (Islamophobia) | father | human | views my own | likes are typically endorsements 🙃 
For the People Law | Free All Political Prisoners @ftpklit.bsky.social For the People, LLC. A human rights and movement law firm dedicated to public interest issues. The focus of our work is on the rights of prisoners, particularly political prisoners.
www.forthepeoplelegal.com
Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social By day a researcher fighting for a better life for the traumatised, by night asleep. Currently writing about a Victorian VIP #CSE scandal. Co-convenor of the BSA Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. she/her
Daniel LaChance @dwlachance.bsky.social Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
Dr Louise Marryat @lmarryat.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of Glasgow. Lead for UK Opioids in Pregnancy Study: https://opioidsinpregnancy.gla.ac.uk/ . Interested in child development, parenting, mental health and substance use. Chair of Board @parentingscotland.bsky.social
Guilherme Dornelles @gdornelles.bsky.social PhD candidate in Public Policy at @ufrgs.br | Researching prison inspection policies, actors, and instruments | Interested in criminology, sociology of punishment, public policy, mixed methods & QCA | F1 fan | 🇧🇷 based
Sandy Oliver @profsandyoliver.bsky.social Combining different ways of knowing – practical, emotional, cultural, scientific – for better academic knowledge and a better world https://www.ucl-ioe-press.com/research-for-all
Dr Rebecca Johnson @researching-reb.bsky.social Participatory Researcher and Youth Worker 🌱 | Research into Mental Health Stigma, Youth Experiences, Measurement Design and Transformative Change | Lecturer in Psychology @Glasgow Caledonian University 🏴 | she/her + you’re safe with me 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Cait Jobson @caitjob.bsky.social Researcher at Durham University
PAR with young people
Creative and digital methods
Caz Blyth @doctorlamplight.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, crime-obsessed cat lover. Currently researching gender-based violence in crime stories (real and fictional). She/her.
Freddie AP 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social Policy Analyst, Criminal Defence Lawyer, prisoners' rights & HIV activist. NonBinary Trans, They/them/iel, Queer.
I💜lemon meringue. New College, Oxford.
#sexwork=work #nooneisillegal #IndigenousRising #refugeeswelcome #union #stillmasking
Krysia Canvin @krysiacanvin.bsky.social Researcher interested in “inclusion health” , health inequalities, prison, mental health, addiction, participatory and partnership methods and supporting lived experience leadership.
Mark Robertson - Author of From Handbags to Hand Grenades. @mrauthor.bsky.social Click on bio link to purchase my book https://linktr.ee/markrobertson.author
Marius Smith @mariussmith.bsky.social CEO of Vacro. We support people caught in the criminal justice system to create new beginnings for themselves and their families.
Prof Rhonda Wilson RN CMHN PhD @rhondawilsonmhn.bsky.social Professor Mental Health Nursing #RMIT University | President #ACMHN | #MentalHealthNurse | #MHNurse | #DigitalHealth | #FirstNations | #Menopause | Wiradjuri yinaa on Darkinjung Land, Central Coast, Australia | Spain, Europe | https://drrhondawilson.com/
Carolyn McKay @carolyn-mckay.bsky.social Criminal Law | Criminology | Visual Art
Associate Professor in Law, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney Law School
https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff/carolyn-mckay.html
https://www.carolynmckay.com
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy @crimjustjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess, peer reviewed #Criminology journal publishing critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems - promotes social democratic solutions
https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/
Claire Loughnan @clairebl.bsky.social 
Gilbert Caluya @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social gay, Filipino-Australian / Senior Lecturer in Gender & Sexuality Studies / researches power, race, intimacy and everyday culture 
Kev Dertadian (He/Him) 🍉 @kdertadian.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology: non-carceral responses to drugs, harm reduction. Qualitative research on non-medical pharmaceutical use, injecting use.
Live on stolen and unceeded Wallumattagal country, and work on Bedegal country.
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
Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social Director @justicematters.bsky.social Doctor of Criminology University of Cambridge. Expertise: routes out of crime / justice leadership / relational systems change. Invested in those whose efforts seek to make our world more just for all.
IRCI_ACU @irci.bsky.social Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Australian Catholic University
Melbourne, Australia
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com ✍️ Contact and complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/may/26/contact-guardian-australia?CMP=aus_bsky
📨 Newsletters: http://theguardian.com/emails?CMP=aus_bsky
📰 Contribute: http://bit.ly/gdnausupport
Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca Punk planner and anarchitect | Housing justice, radical planning, and community care | Adjunct Prof, University of Ottawa | Contact instructor, Carleton U | firstgen scholar | tenant | bassist | she/her
Ottawa, Canada
previously @sbg_arch on 🐦
Dr. Rachel J. Wechsler @racheljwechsler.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Mizzou Law, Faculty Scholar @ Middleton Center on Race, Citizenship & Justice. Teaching Crim Law & Family Law. Researching gender-based violence survivors’ interactions with criminal & family legal systems. Views my own.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Matt Bowden @bourdieudivine.bsky.social Culture & Society Research Lead at TU Dublin. #criminology #sociology #Bourdieu
Ewan Allinson @ewanallinson.bsky.social Sculptor, drystone waller. PhD on local knowledge and its philosophical character at University of Dundee. Skipper at Newhaven Coastal Rowing Club.
www.ewanallinson.com
Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social Labor economist at pro-worker Economic Policy Institute. Views my own. Daughter of a French-Canadian immigrant. (she/her)
Are you registered? Check iwillvote.com. As a voter assist volunteer, it breaks my heart when people find out too late they're not.
Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social #k12StudentMentalHealth #MTSS #SuicidePrevention
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allentien/
#GeneralSemantics #EnergyNetworkScience #HelicalEconomics #WordsAreUnitsOfBrainFunction
地球 #OnePlanet
#WillieKohler
https://www.mdlogix.com
https://bsky-users.theo.io/
Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Liverpool, interested in punishment, especially of sexual violence.
Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social A not-for-profit scholarly press based at the University of Bristol. Home of Policy Press. Publishing on the global social challenges.
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/linktree
Professor Laura Abbott @midwifeteacher.bsky.social Professor of Maternal Health and
Criminal Justice. Midwife. Nurse. Mother. Researcher. Pregnancy & Motherhood in prison. ESRC Lead researcher on The Lost Mother’s Project www.lostmothers.org
orcid ID:
0000-0002-5778-7559
University of Hertfordshire.
StandOut @standoutprogrammes.bsky.social We empower people to make positive change, realise their potential, and rebuild their lives after prison.
QUB Criminology @qubcriminology.bsky.social Criminologists in Queen's University Belfast, part of the Institute for Criminal Justice Studies (This is not an officially recognised QUB account)
Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) offers distance learning courses and advice and guidance to people in prison. We use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education.
Support us here: prisonerseducation.org.uk/donate
Ben Crewe @bencrewe.bsky.social 
Nina Vaswani @weeneens.bsky.social Research Lead at CYCJ, University of Strathclyde. She/her
Youth Justice | Bereavement, loss and trauma | Young masculinities | Mental health | Inequalities | Coproduction.
PI: www.menminds.org and www.challengejustice.org
Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Lucy Campbell @clockwatcher.bsky.social PhD candidate at Edinburgh University Director at Flip of the Coin CIC www.flipofthecoin.scot
Social science
Public health
Lived Experience
Criminology
Director of Policy and Advocacy at Experience for Justice Collective.
Criminal Justice Alliance @cjalliance.bsky.social We are a network of 200+ organisations and academics working towards a fair and effective criminal justice system.
Charity No. 1143038 / Company No. 06331413
Howard Journal of Crime and Justice Official @howardjournalcj.bsky.social The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing theory, research, and debate on the range of institutions connected with harm, security, and justice. Submissions are welcome: https://shorturl.at/Rqlh2 
The Institute for Social Innovation and Impact @isii-at-uon.bsky.social You can contact us at anytime at: ISII-Research@Northampton.ac.uk
The work of our researchers can be found here: https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/organisations/institute-for-social-innovation-and-impact/persons/
Jim Watson @jimwatsonmba.bsky.social Aspiring academic - PhD student Dundee, assoc. Lecturer UWS. Husband, father, grandfather just wanting to make the world a better place...