Tomás Alonso @alonsotomas.bsky.social Human Rights & Attorney.
PhD | Postdoctoral Research in Law & Technology.
Professor, Researcher & International Evaluator.
jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social public service. deep breaths, long horizons.
Pamela Metz @pamelametz.bsky.social Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021). Director of Chapter Development @scholars.org (2022-2025).
Cassandra Cotton @cassandracotton.bsky.social Family sociologist & demographer. Associate Professor at Arizona State University🌵Kinship, motherhood, romantic relationships across the life course
School of Criminal Justice @runscj.bsky.social Official Bluesky of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Nathan Katz @nathankatz.bsky.social Sociologist at LA Tech
I study punk stuff and electoral politics. Generally not togther
All opinions expressed do not reflect my institution. Nor are they all my own. Some are orders from the worm in RFK Jr.'s brain
https://allmylinks.com/nkatz
Bill Chopik @chops310.bsky.social Associate Professor of Social/Personality Psychology at Michigan State University
My opinions do not reflect the views and opinions of my employer.
Chopiklab.com
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Tricia Rojo Bushnell @tcita.bsky.social Executive Director, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. @quattronecenter.org Co-Founder Justice Strikeforce. Formerly the Midwest Innocence Project. Opinions are my own.
Susan McNeeley @susan-mcneeley.bsky.social Criminologist | Senior research analyst at MN Department of Corrections | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan-Mcneeley
Prof Jane Mitchell @jane-mitchell.bsky.social BYU Law Professor. Criminal law and leadership.
Shane O'Mahony @dromahony.bsky.social Criminologist interested in student engagement, drug policy, media representations of violence, and drug-related harm.
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia studying how kids and adults think about morality, religion, and law. Lover of balloons. Lab website: columbiasamclab.weebly.com
Christian Mott @cjmott.bsky.social Studying punishment, criminal law, moral psychology, & experimental jurisprudence. christianmott.com
Sarah Anderson @saraheanderson.bsky.social Lecturer, criminologist, trade unionist, half-hearted social media user. Works on #desistance, #trauma, #prisons, #criminaljusticeharms #healthandjustice and #hackingcareers.
Teresa Kulig @tckulig.bsky.social Associate Professor @unosccj.bsky.social | Co-Director http://vvsrlab.org /// Research interests: #Victimology & #HumanTrafficking
Innocence Network @innocencenetwork.bsky.social Freeing the innocent and preventing wrongful convictions, worldwide. #WrongfulConvictionDay #InnocenceConference
ADPCCJ @adpccj.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice (ADPCCJ). ADPCCJ is comprised of universities and colleges offering the doctorate in criminal justice, criminology, and related areas of study.
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
Tom Sutton @crimepublisher.bsky.social #Criminology and Criminal Justice Publisher, posting about new books and #publishing activities.
For radio show-related gubbins, follow my Instagram @tomsuttoninsta80
Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net Knight Chair in Journalism at Mizzou. Authored first textbook for News Product Management. Previously: Director of Product at McClatchy. Big @newsproduct.org fan.
Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social Sociology prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. Law, Criminal Punishment, Politics, and Labor. New book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
Arden Richards-Karamarkovich @ardenrkvich.bsky.social PhD candidate in Criminology, Law and Society
Amy Gibbons (she/they) @amyg97.bsky.social University of Nottingham green criminology PhD student. Environmental harms, procedural justice, agriculture & the transition plan 🌱🪴🌾🇵🇸🏳️🌈
📍Fenlands
Corentin Durand @corentindurand.cpesr.fr Chargé de recherche au CNRS (CLERSE), chercheur associé à l'INED. Political socioloy, crime & punishment, law & society.
Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social Criminologist with a focus on the sensory and ethnography in prisons. Also running @SensoryPenalities to share exciting new material from www.sensorycriminology.com Author of Sound, Order and Survival in Prison. All about supportive academia
shadd maruna @shaddmaruna.bsky.social Journeyman criminologist. Formerly known as @criminology before Musk ruined everything. It only hurts when I laugh 
Healing Justice @healingjustice.bsky.social Healing Justice works to prevent and alleviate the harms caused to all by wrongful convictions through advocacy, education, and direct support.
Chiara Packard @chiarapackard.bsky.social Asst Prof of Sociology at the University of Utah | Punishment, law & society, prosecution, and inequality | Views are my own | www.chiarapackard.com
Dawn Beichner-Thomas @dbeichner-thomas.bsky.social Professor Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Criminal Justice. NGO UN Representative.
Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social assoc prof at uic
Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing is available at https://www.ucpress.edu/books/indefensible-spaces/paper
www.rahimkurwa.com
Matthew Jerome Schneider @socistmjs.bsky.social Sociology Professor | Race/Whiteness | Community and Civic Engagement | Environment | Hiking with my dogs | #FirstGen | Posts my own | mjschneider.net
Kelly Ross @kellyross910.bsky.social Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature (Oxford UP, 2023) | American lit prof at Rider University | Editor of Poe Studies
http://bit.ly/4157hVb
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
Chris Maggio @chrisjmaggio.bsky.social Assistant Professor studying immigration at Mercy University
https://www.chris-maggio.com
https://mercy.edu/directory/christopher-maggio
Travis Meyers @travismeyers.bsky.social Research Criminologist | RTI International
RTI's Corrections & Reentry Research Program: https://bit.ly/40QN7hs
Corrections, Correctional Policy, Restrictive Housing, Program Evaluation, Reentry
Allison McKim @allisonmckim.bsky.social Sociologist of gender, punishment & society, welfare state, law, drugs. Professor at Bard College. Author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration.
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
Cassandra Dodge, Ph.D. @cdodgecrim.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Cybercriminology & Security Studies at Indiana State University
Sec/Tres for ASC Division of Cybercrime
AF Veteran. Obsessed corgi mom.
Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social detroit native. deputy editor at huffpost. WABJ president. check out my free newsletter! --> https://www.whatimreading.net/
Dylan B. Jackson, Ph.D. @drdylanbjackson.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins BSPH. I am a developmental and health criminologist who studies the health of children, youth, and families in the context of violence/crime, adversity, and the criminal legal system.
Kelly M. Socia, Ph.D. @kellymsocia.bsky.social Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at UMass Lowell
Researching punishment, public opinion, labels, sex crime policies
"Knowledgeable yet boring"
"Displays gratuitous vulgarity"
Rarely on here - apologies for any delay in responding/following.
American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social * Support a diverse and inclusive community of sociologists
* Increase public knowledge and understanding of society through sociology
* Promote the use of sociological insights to drive positive social change https://bit.ly/m/AmSocAssoc
Valli Rajah @vallirajah.bsky.social Professor at John Jay College, City University of New York. Sociologist. Criminologist. Interests:
gender-based violence, consequences of crime control policies, #femininstcriminology #cunyproud
Lindsay Bing @lbing.bsky.social Sociologist studying criminal legal system. Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Co-founder of the Texas Prison Education Initiative
@mkafafian.bsky.social @mkafafian.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Human Trafficking, Victimization, and Criminological Theory.
Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social Sociology prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي
https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed
لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
Midwestern Criminal Justice Association @midwesterncja.bsky.social Founded in 1977 to foster research, academic, & practitioner collaboration. Regional organization of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) • #CriminalJustice #Criminology #MCJA2025 • MCJA.org
Justin EC Tetrault @tetrault.bsky.social Assistant professor at SFU's School of Criminology. I study political extremism, Indigenous justice, and prisons. Red River Métis. https://www.justintetrault.com/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Meaghan Stiman @mstiman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. Author of Privileging Place (Princeton 2024). Scholar of community, democracy, and housing.
Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social Account of the book and ongoing blog: www.sensorycriminology.com run by Kate Herrity (@kateherrity) + Jason Warr (@warrcrim) for all things foregrounding a #Sensory focus on matters #Criminological. Follow for #Creative and #Sensorial takes on #Criminology
Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Prof | Dr Anna Sergi @annasergi.bsky.social Criminology & Organised Crime Professor | from Calabria to Bologna via 🇬🇧 | love 🇦🇺 & podcasts | critical scholar |'ndrangheta/mafia, transnational migration & crime, transculturation & crime, power & crime, ports & crime, cocaine trade |English | Italian
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/
Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor. Author of On Critical Race Theory. Past Vice President, American Sociological Association. AAUP/Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Fellow & Alliance for Higher Education Fellow. Speaking only for myself.
Katie Durante 🍹🦕 @professorkd.bsky.social Assoc Prof at U Utah Sociology/Criminology• Incarceration researcher• Urbanite • Always down to eat pho 🍲 • #firstgen • Views my own
CLE ➡️ Cincy ➡️ Vegas ➡️ SLC📍
Monica Solinas-Saunders @monsolinassaunders.bsky.social Criminologist & Sociologist, Interested in learning, Views are my own.
Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
#blue
Chris Marier @cjmarier.com Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. I study policing, punishment, and race and justice.
Johannes Wheeldon @jwheeldon.bsky.social Law & Society Prof at Acadia University.
Also: Music, Hockey, and Second Acts
Dr. Brittany Friedman @curlyprofessor.bsky.social 🏹 Los Angeles |🌱Herbalist + Mystic | sociologist + professor | 📖 Author of CARCERAL APARTHEID | 🌹| www.brittanyfriedman.com
Ben Crewe @bencrewe.bsky.social 
Dr Landon Kuester @drlandonkuester.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at University of Manchester, leading research in prisons, AI-driven social prescribing, and public health criminology; expert in qualitative/mixed methods; teaching public criminology, violence, and global social challenges.
Sam Yuan @samsamyuan.bsky.social Assistant prof of soc in the school of history and sociology, Georgia Tech.
Mixed methods medical sociologist and life course scholar.
Sam, the lucky one. 🤓
Personal website:www.samyaqiyuan.com
Dr. Melanie Palacios Soderstrom @melsoderstrom.bsky.social Assistant Professor & Pre-Law Advisor @ Texas State | PhD in Criminal Justice from UCF | JD from William & Mary | Former public defender | Researcher of juvenile justice, school policing, youth mental health, and practitioner training | 🇵🇷
Andrew M. Jefferson @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social Prison scholar, writer, enabler. Seeking Justice and Exuberance. Organising Against Punishment. And trying to formulate an abolitionist aesthetics of resistance. Working on justice-related issues in Myanmar and Sierra Leone.
Erin J McCauley @erinjmccauley.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Soc at UCSF (PhD @Cornell). Criminal legal system, parental incarceration, health, education, child welfare. 🐶🐶👶🏻 mom & avid crocheter. 🛵🧶
www.erinjmccauley.com
Contexts Magazine @contexts.org Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to general readers. Edited by David Grazian, with managing editor Elena van Stee.
contexts.org
Mary-Collier Wilks, PhD @profmarycollier.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
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/
Karel J. Leyva @kareljleyva.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief (https://politicsrights.com/ ; @polrightsrev.bsky.social). Dedicated to connecting the social sciences and humanities with broader audiences, promoting critical dialogue, and addressing today’s most pressing challenges.
Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
@daniellerudes.bsky.social @daniellerudes.bsky.social 
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
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
Jeff Kukucka @kukucka.bsky.social Professor and psycholegal researcher of human factors (especially cognitive bias) in forensics. To science, I felt that I could help ⭕️
Marissa Thompson @marissathompson.bsky.social assistant professor of sociology at Columbia • researching inequality, education, race/ethnicity, & social policy • 26.2 x2, 13.1 x14 • 1913 | Γ • she/her • views mine
marissaethompson.com
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice @quattronecenter.org National research and policy hub at the University of Pennsylvania, created to correct errors and catalyze long-term structural improvements to the US criminal justice system. Visit https://www.law.upenn.edu/institutes/quattronecenter/
Mattias De Backer @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social Research professor and researcher VUB Spatial and Urban Criminology. Editor @crimencounters
Father of two.
And musician in the Belgian postpunk band KORINTHIANS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-4800
Dr. Rita Shah @theritaphd.bsky.social She/Her(s). Academic. Fulbright Scholar. Book nerd (IG: @TheRitaReads). Weights. Climbing. Photography. Women’s soccer. Random nonsense. I wrote a book: https://tinyurl.com/2p23j48t #CeasefireNow
Daniela Pila, PhD 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @dpsocio.bsky.social Siya|she|her | Sociologist @Fordham AAST | Research: US immigration,🇵🇭s &🇵🇭 🇺🇸s, legal status | IG: drdanielapila | danielapila.com | Founder of Pamana https://pamanallc.com/
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Kevin Drakulich @drakulich.bsky.social Sociologist, Criminologist. Usually online to learn about new research.
Conor O'Reilly @oreillycf.bsky.social Professor of Transnational Crime & Security @ccjsleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social | Father of Twins | Views My Own
Cheryl Lero Jonson @clerojonson.bsky.social Assoc Prof at Xavier University | Criminologist | Effectiveness & psych impact of civilian active assailant protocols, public opinion & corrections | Personal account | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RgaXKNYAAAAJ&hl=en
Stephanie L. Canizales @stephcanizales.bsky.social Sociologist // Author of ‘Sin Padres, Ni Papeles’ @UCPress & ‘Everyday Futures’ @StanfordPress
Scott Kidd @criminologykidd.bsky.social Criminology Lecturer, specialising in belonging for justice-experienced individuals in higher education , violence in rural and coastal areas, antisocial behavior, and tackling criminal justice inequalities. LE 11.5yrs of the CJS
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
Robin Gålnander @robingalnander.bsky.social Feminist criminologist studying desistance from crime. Associate Professor at Stockholm University
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
David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social Check out my Substack "Venezuela and the United States" https://davidsmilde.substack.com/ Opinions expressed are my own.
Will Schultz @drwjschultz.bsky.social Day job: Assistant professor of Criminology at MacEwan University (Alberta, Canada), prison researcher with the University of Alberta Prisons Project, and proud dad.
Night job: angsty hockey fan and indifferent beer league hockey player.
David Pitts @davidpitts.bsky.social VP Justice & Safety, Urban Institute. Research on prisons, jails, and systems change. Alum of Georgia, Indiana, and UC Irvine. Adjunct Faculty, CUNY. Alabama native. 🏳️🌈
#criminaljustice #criminology #corrections #prisonreform #crimsky
Francis Pakes @francispakes.bsky.social Professor in Criminology. Nordic prison expert and keen runner, dog walker and chess enthusiast 
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/