Hodge Jones & Allen Solicitors @hodgejonesallen.bsky.social Leading London law firm renowned for fighting for what's right and providing top-tier personal legal services.
Tel: 0330 822 5788
https://www.hja.net/
Citizens Advice @citizensadvice.bsky.social We are Citizens Advice - the people's champion.
If you need advice, visit our website: citizensadvice.org.uk
FLBA (Family Law Bar Association) @familylawbar.flba.co.uk The Professional Association of Family Law Barristers in England and Wales.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Alistair Sloan @alistairsloan.bsky.social Advocate (Lawyer) at the Scottish Bar. Member of Optimum Advocates. #FOI, #privacy & #DataProtection nerd. Enjoy public law. Opinions expressed are my own.
Dr Alison Daniell @alispencer.bsky.social Author, former family lawyer and all-round plate spinner currently working in learning development. Independent scholar: 18th century women, law, literature (esp Jane Austen) plus a bit of witchcraft 🐈⬛
Paul Brown @pbkc.bsky.social Planning and environmental lawyer, sometime cyclist
Gillian Douglas🦋 @gilliand.bsky.social Retired Professor of Family Law. Arsenal supporter. Beagle owner.
Dr Nicola Smithers @nicolasmithers.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in law and researcher at University of Northampton.
Interest: Medical law and ethics
Lucy Yeatman @lucyyeatman.bsky.social Lecturer and solicitor at Liverpool Law Clinic. Family law and clinical legal education.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Johannes Wheeldon @jwheeldon.bsky.social Law & Society Prof at Acadia University.
Also: Music, Hockey, and Second Acts
Ben D. @bdcj98.bsky.social Dad|Doctoral Researcher (Government) Criminal Justice, American History degrees🎣💦🥾🎸
Amina Memon @aminamemon.bsky.social Prof Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, Memory, Credibility, Eyewitnesses, Emotion & Law are some of my topics.
Outside work, I seek the sea, a mountain top, a sampling of wine, a good book! 
Rebecca Samaras @rebeccasamaras.bsky.social Director of Clinical Legal Education l Senior Lecturer in Law l Solicitor and Notary Public l Educator and Clinician l Experiential Teaching and Learning l Access to Justice
Aaron Matthews @aaronmatthews.bsky.social Solicitor, building a legal education thing.
Simon Boyes @somewhatawkward.bsky.social Academic lawyer at Nottingham Trent University (sports, public and EU law). Broader interests in law, politics and sport. Often in combination. Scarborough Athletic, Cas Tigers, Yorkshire CCC, Miami Dolphins. Northerner.
Mike Bankole @mikebankole.bsky.social I lecture and research race, representation, and British politics @warwickpais.bsky.social
Talk football on @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
https://substack.com/@mikebankole
Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social Professor of Legal Design. Associate Head, Lancaster University Law School. Editor-in-Chief, Legal Design Journal.
Kirsty Horsey @khorsey.bsky.social Professor of Law at Loughborough University. Originally a West Country lass. Fan of cats, cooking and fun.
Legal Futures @legalfutures.bsky.social Market intelligence for law firms of the future. Daily news stories, blogs, conferences and specialist CPD training for practitioners. Posts by Editor Neil Rose
https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/
The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education @theltjournal.bsky.social The Law Teacher is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research addressing legal education and the teaching of law at all academic levels and in all jurisdictions | Published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social and the journal of @altlaw.bsky.social
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
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
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
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
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.
Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social
Juvenile justice researcher from a developmental psych perspective ▪️ Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University ▪️ Vice President, 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
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
Yvonne Krieg @yvonnekrieg.bsky.social Social scientist at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony | Researching right-wing extremism and youth delinquency | she/her
Tatanya D. Valland, Phd, ms.spelling @tatdv.bsky.social Sociology of Law. Professions. Loyalties, professional discretion, public law, legal compensation &victimization, gender&diversity&law& organisation&leadership and most things policing/CJ.
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!!
Amy Nivette @nivette.bsky.social Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University. Studies crime things. 🏳️🌈
Jason R. Silva @jasonrsilva.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at William Paterson University│PhD John Jay College/Graduate Center, CUNY│Mass Shootings, Terrorism, School Violence, Media & Crime
See my work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sz9hCT4AAAAJ&hl=e
Dallas Augustine @dallasaugustine.bsky.social Asst. Prof @ SJSU Justice Studies. Scholar, harm reductionist & nap enthusiast. Research: prisons, reentry, work, homelessness. Opinions mine / my cat’s.
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
(((Peter Hanink))) @phanink.bsky.social criminologist, Long Beacher, nerd, 🏳️🌈, recovering lawyer, assistant professor @ cal poly pomona, views my own
Melissa Morabito @profmorabito.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Justice Studies
Charlotte Walker @charlrwalker.bsky.social PhD student and research officer working across public health and psychology with a focus on food bank use. Trying to stay mentally well within academia https://charlottewalker.uk/ ORCID 0000-0003-2244-350X
William Wood @woodwi.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University.
Personal account/views
https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9738-william-wood
Chris Marier @cjmarier.com Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. I study policing, punishment, and race and justice.
@johnleverso.bsky.social @johnleverso.bsky.social Sociologist; Criminologist; Studying Street Gangs, Social Media, and Health Criminology. University of Cincinnati, School of Criminal Justice. Views are my own.
Website: JohnLeverso.com
Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
Social control, crime, quant methods, R coding
clanfear.github.io
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.
Dr. Sam Clinkinbeard @profclink.bsky.social Over here trying…
Mom, Partner, professor, humanity seeker, researcher (policing - gender - mental health - motivation)
Khoi Ngo @khoixngo.bsky.social Sociologist (in training) at Washington University in St. Louis. I use computational, survey, & experimental methods to study race, policing, surveillance, & social movements.
Nicholas Vietto @nvietto.bsky.social Data visualization enthusiast 📈 with a background in quantitative methods in criminology | #Rstats
website: https://nvietto.rbind.io/
Mike Vecchio, PhD @mikevecchio.bsky.social Lecturer of Criminal Justice & Criminology, Loyola University Chicago (he/him) • UMSL PhD & BGSU alum • Youth gangs, violence, & victimization ♾️
Teresa Kulig @tckulig.bsky.social Associate Professor @unosccj.bsky.social | Co-Director http://vvsrlab.org /// Research interests: #Victimology & #HumanTrafficking
@mkafafian.bsky.social @mkafafian.bsky.social Assistant Professor at George Washington University. Human Trafficking, Victimization, and Criminological Theory.
Irina Fanarraga, PhD @irinafanarraga.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at The Corrections Lab | Intimate partner violence, alternatives to incarceration, risk assessment, corrections. 🇵🇪
Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com I study immigration enforcement. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
Max Felker-Kantor @mfkantor.bsky.social historian of cities, race, policing, and carceral state | prof. @ uw-madison | author of
@UNC_Press
JPP books Policing Los Angeles and DARE to Say No | Arsenal fan | opinions mine | linktr.ee/mfkantor
Gemma Morgan @gemmorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at Swansea University. Fulbright Scholar 23/24. Social justice, desistance, digital inclusion, youth justice, co-design & evaluations.
Will Schupmann @willschupmann.bsky.social PhD student @ UCLA studying criminal justice and healthcare. Previously NIH Bioethics, Urban Institute
willschupmann.me
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.
Per-Olof H Wikström, FBA @powikstrom.bsky.social Professor Emeritus University of Cambridge. Professor Malmö universitet. Situational Action Theory (SAT) its development, testing and policy & prevention application.
Short Bio; https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-per-olof-wikstrom
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
Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social Sociologist. Author of WHEN RAPE GOES VIRAL. Research on #gender #techabuse #sexualviolence #digitalculture #youth.
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