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CSTPV @cstpv.bsky.social Based at the University of St Andrews the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence is Europe's oldest Centre of its kind.
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Barry Godfrey @barrygodfrey.bsky.social Professor of Social Justice
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Nic Fox @foxnic.bsky.social Researching harmed & missing children w/ ML+NLP (“AI”) + more.
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* https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2333561
* https://doi.org/10.1080/30679125.2025.2612199
* https://doi.org/10.21428/cb6ab371.524bcce2
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Nicole Renehan @nikitarenee37.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Durham University, Centre of Research into Violence and Abuse| Researching Domestic Abuse & Neurodiversity
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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
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
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Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Conor O'Reilly @oreillycf.bsky.social Professor of Transnational Crime & Security @ccjsleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social | Father of Twins | Views My Own
Diana Miranda @dianamiranda.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology (University of Stirling). Surveillance, Biometrics, Tech (and Tea). EU citizen 🇵🇹🏴🇪🇺
Stephen Burrell @thedailypanda.bsky.social Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, researching men, masculinities and violence - especially violence against women and violence against the planet. Also co-hosting the podcast #NowandMen.
Kalwant Bhopal @kalwantbhopal.bsky.social Professor of Education and Social Justice, Director Centre for Research on Race and Education, University of Birmingham. Interests: race, gender, class, equity, social justice.
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Revolving Doors @revdoors.bsky.social National charity working to end the revolving door of crisis & crime. Posts from the team.
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Clare Farmer 📚⚖️🐾 @clarefarmer.bsky.social Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University, Australia;
SFHEA; Adult Parole Board, Victoria, Australia
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Alexa Jimenez @alexacelestec.bsky.social Criminologist | PhD Candidate | Researching Harm & Deviance | Media, Culture & Crime.
Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Reka S @rsolymosi.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Uni of Manchester. Interested in data, tech, transport & crime (prevention). She/her. 🌐: http://rekadata.net
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Tim Newburn @timnewburn.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Social Policy, LSE. Living with cancer. Health means some reorientation of priorities. Still music (selections from the back catalogue - gigs whenever possible), criminology and Everton FC. MD ANT
Judith Aldridge @judithaldridge.bsky.social Drug use, drug markets, drug policy. Internet-facilitated drug supply. Criminology @University of Manchester
Prof Andy Newton @profanewton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Policing, Co-Director Safety & Sustainability @NTU | Academic Advisor to Notts Violence Reduction Partnership | Interests: crime, policing, transport, violence prevention, policy evaluation | data science | problem solving | EBP
Leona Mydlowski @drleonamydlowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Policing. Interested in Criminal Law, international Criminal Law, sexual offences, management of sexual offenders, public Protection and safeguarding 😊😊✌️✌️
Adam Crawford @adamcrawford.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at the University of York & University of Leeds, Co-Director of ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social
https://www.york.ac.uk/law/people/crawford/
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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Research #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also crazy about anti-fascism, atheism, Prince, professional cycling, politics, the news, live comedy and music. #academicsky (1st-gen)
Sharda @sharda24.bsky.social Senior Lecturer interested in Policing & Criminal Justice research. Spare time taken up by Mummy-duties and BCFC 💙
Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social Criminologist and academic | Commissioner, Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission | Scottish politics & policy #ScotPol | Personal account/views.
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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.
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Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Dr Claire Fox @drclairefox.bsky.social Criminologist/victimologist, senior lecturer @ University of Manchester, Tory-intolerant, fond of a cuss word or two, skilled procrastinator 
Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social Prof of Psychology, Security and Trust in @criminologyuom.bsky.social University of Manchester UK. Research on tech and crime, also human performance in extreme environments. Posting occasionally about either or both. 
Laurène Soubise @lsoubise.bsky.social Associate Prof @lawatleeds.bsky.social, teaching criminal law, criminal justice. Interested in comparative criminal justice, prosecutors, loss of control/provocation defence,... She/her
Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social Lecturer in law, University of York. Criminal law, criminal process, and evidence; some mental health. Primarily working on terror-law/policy and discretion: 'Criminalizing Terrorism' forthcoming with OUP.
Ali Malik @dralimalik.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds. Interested in police governance, local resilience and climate vulnerability. 
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 
Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social News from the Humanities & Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Liverpool. Monitored 9am-5pm Mon-Fri.
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Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social Shaping future services for vulnerable people through research. Based at @york.ac.uk & @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Funded by the ESRC.
https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/
David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester
WeCops @wecops.bsky.social Our Mission: to create collaborative spaces that enable the UK policing community to connect, share, learn and influence. https://www.wecops.uk/
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Andrea Kretschmann @andreakretschmann.bsky.social Sociologist & criminologist, focus on cultural sociology, socio-legal studies, police studies, sociology of the state; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg & Centre Marc Bloch
The Journal of Law and Society @journallawsociety.bsky.social The Leading British Periodical for Socio-Legal Studies
Dr Benjamin Thorne @benjaminthorne.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law
@unirdg-law.bsky.social
Via PhD
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Błażej Kaucz @blazejkaucz.bsky.social Criminologist and Socio-Legal Scholar
Interested in CJS, organised crime, and militarisation
Works @ UCCLibrary
📖 "The Militarisation of Behaviours: Social Control and Surveillance in Poland and Ireland" is available @ http://bit.ly/3DwxZsz
#criminology
Anna Barker @annabarker.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminal Justice & Criminology | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies | University of Leeds | Views My Own | PI Safer Parks Project | Co-I @greenaware.bsky.social
Abi Stark @abistark.bsky.social Research interests: imprisonment; rights and citizenship of people with convictions; resettlement.
Karen Duke @karenduke.bsky.social Professor in Criminology at Middlesex University, UK; Co-Director Drug & Alcohol Research Centre @darc-mdx.bsky.social; Co-Editor-in-Chief @deppjournal.bsky.social; Trustee at Revolving Doors @revdoors.bsky.social
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
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Jon Shute @jonshute.bsky.social Bone-weary social media refugee. Also, criminologist, Uni. Manchester. Atrocity crime; death & memory; denial & acknowledgement; compliance in the lifecourse; evaluation research. Specialist in grim lists. GSOH.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5624-3787
Dr Laura Bainbridge @drlaurabainbridge.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminal Justice, University of Leeds. I specialise in violence reduction, cuckooing victimisation and enforced alcohol abstinence
Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social Journalist, specialising in policing, crime, justice, prisons, security & immigration. Ex-BBC home affairs correspondent & former adviser to Yvette Cooper MP. These are all my views! 
anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist Barbara Miller offers updates about people, cultures, rights, and change, around the world. Focus on anthropology and more. Casting a critical, but wishfully hopeful, eye on current events. Sharing new research and opportunities
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Mike Rowe @mikerrowe.bsky.social Academic. Ethnographer of street-level bureaucrats and discretion, most recently police in particular. Liverpool.
Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron @isabtkwk.bsky.social Associate Professor in Policing; Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania - Vice President, Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association - mom, dogs, coffee, tea, swim, pilates, knit, etc 🇫🇷🇦🇺
Michelle Addison @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social Associate Professor, Durham University | Editorial Board BJC #inequality #stigma #harm #intersectionality #marginalisation #health #criminalisation
Proud Northerner + First Gen Scholar 💛 she/her
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/michelle-addison/
Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social Prof of Law & Director of Research at Manchester University's Law Dept. N8PRP Academic Director. Socio-legal research interests in human rights, policing, public order, crowd management, football "hooliganism", Ethnography, and sports law.
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