Nancy La Vigne @nancylavigne.bsky.social Criminal justice researcher committed to evidence-informed solutions to safety and justice challenges
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Geniece Mondé, PhD @geniecemonde.bsky.social Sociologist |Jamaican born, Queens raised |📖 :This is Our Freedom https://www.ucpress.edu/books/this-is-our-freedom/paper. Website: geniecemonde.com
Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! @leighgoodmark.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, director of Gender, Prison, and Trauma Clinic, author of Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism and Decriminalizing Domestic Violence (UC Press). She/her/mom. leighgoodmark.com
Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. https://silver-guillotine.itch.io
Lydia Jean @lydiajean.bsky.social Wayward geographer. Abolition. Racial Capitalism. Collective liberation. Author Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana (UNC Press) and co-editor The Jail Is Everywhere (Verso). Dogs and carnival forever
Liz Chin @etchin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins • health equity • data science • studying mass incarceration and algorithm bias
Sarah Berger @sarahjb.bsky.social lawyer, former public defender, former chair, NYC Bar Ass’n Task Force on Mass Incarceration, current member, NYC Bar Ass’n Civil Rights Committee
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Essie Justice Group @essie4justice.bsky.social The nation’s leading advocacy organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration.
Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social Building 👨🏾💻 carenote.app - prayetic.com - directee.app - mobilize.dev | Pastoring through the intersections of Race, Faith, Abolition, & Technology | Ann Arbor City Planning Commissioner | Biking 🚴🏾♂️
Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant
Dasha Pruss @dashapruss.bsky.social Critically studying carceral tech and organizing against it.
▪️Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, George Mason University
▪️Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
▪️dashapruss.com
Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social Law Professor at Cardozo Law, former appellate public defender. I write about our national addiction to the carceral state and complain about mundane things. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/kate-levine
Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian
hannahnpbowman.com
christiansforabolition.org
Abolition Ecclesiology, Nov 2026: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9798889838357/Abolition-Ecclesiology
She/her
JusticeWithJean @jeantrounstine.com Novel Debut: SOUNDS LIKE TROUBLE TO ME, May 12, 2026. Running Wild Pub. Prof.& Prison Activist, Author/ed 8 books including SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS (St. Martins), BOY WITH A KNIFE (IGpublishing). Truthout, BINJreports, BostonMag--www.jeantrounstine.com
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
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
Andy Aydın-Aitchison @andy8chi.bsky.social Criminologist. Former Lada driver. Atrocity crimes | democracy | police | Bosnia & Herzegovina | ex-Yu | family history | other people's cats... (he/him)
Idle hands draw social theorists poorly on a digital egg.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-1302
Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social Lecturer in criminology at Edinburgh Napier University. Associate director of the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR). Using zemiology to research migration, border harms, and environmental harms. Migrant, feminist, bird & cat enthusiast.
Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social #Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
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'.
Vickie Barrett @vickiebarrett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Huddersfield University.
ADR UK Research Fellow.
Interested in punitiveness (CJS, education, welfare), policy, school exclusions and offending.
Ex-probation officer and school teacher.
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social Economic Migrant from beyond the pale. ‘Elitist’: I function from the neck up. Book reader (& writer). The day job is Criminologist, but I’m really a student of justice.
An ‘elitist’ is anyone who can function from the neck up, according to populists.
Ben Jarman @benjarman.uk Criminologist and prison researcher. Scholar of punishment, fascinated by human extremes. Husband of better half, Quaker, lover of silence, servant of unquiet spaniel and toddler. https://benjarman.uk for more on my work.
Matt Ashby @mattashby.com I help people use data to reduce crime. Associate Professor, Crime Science, UCL. Former police officer.
🌐: mattashby.com
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
Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
Richard Kjellgren @kjellgren.bsky.social Quantitative criminologist @ University of Stirling. Data linkage, administrative data, justice, health, vulnerability and exploitation #rstats 🇪🇺🏴🇸🇪
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
Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Anastasia Chamberlen @ana-chamberlen.bsky.social Working @ Dept. of Sociology at Warwick University. Researching prisons; punishment; gender & criminal justice; arts & aesthetic injustice. Current project: www.captivearts.co.uk (AHRC).
Profile: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/chamberlen/
Dr Ed Schreeche-Powell @schreeche.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Greenwich.
Convict Criminology, Penal Interventions, Lived Experience, Social and Forensic Psychology
Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social economist & legal scholar studying criminal justice issues.
professor of law
professor of economics (by courtesy)
UVA
https://sites.google.com/view/megan-stevenson/home
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)
Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer and Programme Leader of Criminology at Bournemouth University. #Quantitative #Criminology, #Victimology, #Policing… Personal account
https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/ftura
Russell Brewer @russellbrewer.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at Adelaide University | Researching cybercrime, policing, digital forensics & ways to keep kids safe online | Diehard Canucks fan.
📍 Adelaide, South Australia
🌐 www.CybercrimeObservatory.com.au
Dorina Damsa @dorinadamsa.bsky.social 🍉 Global inequality regimes (incl. citizenship), multispecies justice, politics of nature and climate change adaptation, non/knowledge production.
📍 Senior research fellow at ISF Oslo https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/dorinada/
Max Pickartz 📊 @maxpi.bsky.social interested in sociology, computational social sciences, criminology, causal inference, spatial analysis and more
https://maxpi99.github.io/
Stephanie Bonnes (she/her) @stephaniebonnes.bsky.social Sociologist researching and teaching about gender, femininity, masculinity, victimization, and organizations. Currently writing about sexual harassment and assault in the military. Author of Hardship Duty (OUP, 2024). 
Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social Sociology of policing, police reform, public order, politics of expression. Teach criminology @ UWE. Will post cat pictures. Talks underground punk, indie, etc. ⚽️ #CAFC
Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social History, STS, human rights documentation, deaths in custody, criminal legal system, etc.
New Book: https://deathincustodybook.com
Podcast: https://officialignorance.com
Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Sociology, U Wisconsin - Madison. she/her/they
I research social movements & protest, especially Black; I do advocacy around criminal legal system. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-1008 
Jamie Livingston @jamielivingston.bsky.social Criminologist; critical work at the mental health, substance use, & criminal legal intersection
Kjipuktuk, Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
He/Him 🍁 ⚖️ 🥌 💉 😺 💜
www.justmentalhealth.ca 
Lisa Tompson @lisatompson.bsky.social Crime Scientist UK -> NZ Interested in generating and synthesising evidence for better crime prevention and policing policy. Methodologically promiscuous.
Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology & co-founder Centre for policing & prevention, Malmö Uni, Sweden.
Research on police, the geography of crime & fear, & crime prevention.
Santiago Tobon @santiagotobon.bsky.social Economics professor at EAFIT | Co-Chair Crime reduction & police accountability at EGAP | Researching crime & violence
Ron Levi @ronlevi.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto. I study ideas, claims, and competitions over law and justice, often in turbulent, disrupted, violent & unsettled times. Direct labs on antisemitism and on justice systems under stress.
Mikkel Jarle Christensen @mjarlec.bsky.social Sociologist who studies the contest to define and deploy criminal justice at the borders of the state: Atrocity crimes justice, transnational policing, and anti-corruption. PI of #JustSites: https://jura.ku.dk/icourts/research/justsites/
John Todd-Kvam @johntoddkvam.bsky.social Associate professor at the University College of the Norwegian Correctional Service. Researching criminology, politicking locally (for Miljøpartiet de Grønne in Nordre Follo). PhD in criminology, MSc in international relations. He/him.
Ryan Jerome LeCount @hoosierbluesman.bsky.social Sociologist. Race & Politics; Policing; Religion; Firearms. Lover of ideas and music. Shepherd of cats. Seeker of Justice and prisoner of Hope. Views my own.
Mike Fix @mpfix1.bsky.social Professor & DGS, state court scholar, #firstgen, dog person. Opinions are mine not my employer’s. He/Him/His.
Bjørn Ihler @bjornih.bsky.social Building a threat intelligence company in the depths of the Nordic forest - www.Revontulet.co. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
Professor Off-Topic @socialscinerd.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher, analyst. I study extremism, terrorism, and collective violence.
Posts are not peer reviewed.
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
Mandi Gray @mandigray.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Sociology/Criminology. Author of Suing for Silence (UBC Press). Co-host Diva Voce podcast. Formerly known as Doctor Sassy Pants on that other website.
Louis Klarevas @proflou.bsky.social Professor at Teachers College-Columbia University Studying Law and Public Health (School Safety, Gun Violence, and Extremism). Author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings. Views Are My Own.
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ljk2149/
Dan Semenza @daniel-semenza.bsky.social Criminologist | Associate Professor at Rutgers University | Director of Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center | Stoneleigh Fellow
Michael Olu. Akinlabi, PhD @drakinlabi.bsky.social Prog Lead, Professional Policing Degree at Northumbria Uni | Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice | Editor: Policing and the Rule of Law in Sub-Saharan Africa | Author: Police-citizen Relations in Nigeria | Co-Editor: Policing the Global South
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Claire Davis @drclairedavis.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester. Research interests include sociology of policing - police culture, police leadership, and inclusion and diversity in policing.
Juanjo Medina 🍉🇺🇦 @jmedina1.eurosky.social Social scientist (Andalusian by birth, Manc by exposure) interested in police reform, violence, crime prevention & environmental criminology. Surviving University of Seville (Spain). https://juanjomedina.com
Janne Kivivuori @jkivivuori.bsky.social Professor of criminology, University of Helsinki, Finland. Criminologist, sociologist. Research themes: history of criminology, homicide, International Self-Report Delinquency Study.
Jan-Philip Steinmann @jpsteinmann.bsky.social PostDoc | Sociologist | @KFN | @FGZ | Social inequalities | Migration and integration | Right-wing populism | Deviant behavior | Religion
https://www.jan-philip-steinmann.com/
Johannes Wheeldon @jwheeldon.bsky.social Law & Society Prof at Acadia University.
Also: Music, Hockey, and Second Acts
Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford. Author of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT www.matthewclair.org
Andrea Constant @andreaconstant.bsky.social Sociology PhD Candidate @ Ohio State. She/Her/Ella. Views are my own.
https://sociology.osu.edu/people/constant.17
Joss Greene @josstgreene.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @ UC Davis, PhD @ Columbia. He/him.
josstgreene.com
Raquel Delerme @raqueldelerme.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Southern California. Studying prisons, race, gender, & labor.