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Geoff Pearson
@profgeoffpearson.bsky.social
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Prof of Law at Manchester University. Socio-legal research interests in human rights, policing, public order, crowd management, football "hooliganism", Ethnography, and sports law. Currently on research leave.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 9h
All good now. Expecting to be home tonight, albeit one and a half days late!

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Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal @crimandcj.bsky.social · 14h
🚨 Got bold ideas in criminology or criminal justice?
We want to read them.

Criminology & Criminal Justice is open for submissions — from the critical to the creative, the empirical to the theoretical.

🖊️ Send us your best work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ

#Criminology
Criminology & Criminal Justice: Sage Journals
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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 14h
Thunderstorms, landslides and floods. The low point was when the car we hitched a lift in started to float. The worst weather the locals could recall in many years.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 14h
Was an eventful journey back from the writing retreat. After being stuck on the island for over two days with no boats going in or out.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 1d
Brilliant news. Congrats @lucyfrith.bsky.social

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 1d
Quelle surprise. The only question is whether the continued failure of the French police to manage football crowds is gross incompetence or deliberate maliciousness. Suspect it's a bit of both, personally.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Newcastle: Club to complain after treatment of fans in Marseille
Newcastle United are to launch a complaint following the
www.bbc.co.uk

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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 1d
80% of UK women have experienced public harassment, yet 75% report that no one stepped in.

Dr @annabarker.bsky.social's research has helped hundreds of park staff and volunteers across the UK to be trained in how to spot, safely challenge, and prevent harassment.

Read more👇
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Background of Woodhouse Moor. Smiling photo of Dr Barker in a circle. #News flare. Text reads: “We know that safer parks are not just about better lighting or design - they’re about people. This training gives staff and volunteers the confidence to act when they see or hear something that isn’t right. It empowers communities to look out for each other.”

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · 1d
New report by the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism, with Prof. Hilary Pilkington @uomsociology.bsky.social, calls for urgent reforms to make the UK’s counter-terrorism laws fairer, focused & more accountable

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/o...

#SoSSResearch #Research @manchester.ac.uk

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 2d
Sorry to be a bore David, but I try to avoid commenting publicly on active ops, given my current CoP role.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 3d
Have had a productive and enjoyable writing retreat in lovely Hydra and a book will be forthcoming from it. However, any mistakes will be those of the many cats who have interfered with my efforts, rather than my own.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 12d
The penny still hasn't dropped that no matter how right-wing your policies are, you will never go far enough to satisfy racists.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 15d
I feared at the time that the introduction of PCCs would lead to a worrying politicisation of the police. I don't think that happened, but I'm not sure much else happened as a result of their introduction either.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Shubham Jain @shubhamjain224.bsky.social · 15d
Delighted to announce the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Series on Sport & Human Rights that I will edit with @danihee.bsky.social @sportandrights.bsky.social

@idrottsforum.bsky.social @prof-mark-james.bsky.social @antoineduval.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
📌 www.routledge.com/Sport-and-Hu...

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 16d
This is an appalling judgment to read. Two Chief Constables found in contempt of court for misleading the court about the existence of video footage. But this was only discovered when the matter made it to the Court of Appeal. Incredible perseverance.

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...
Judges set to decide fate of police chief constable guilty of contempt of court
Exclusive: Ivan Balhatchet, Northamptonshire’s chief constable, could face up to two years in jail or a fine for repeated failure to obey rulings
www.theguardian.com

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 17d
On the nose again. Not sure how, but David Squires manages it every week.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 17d
I'll be on The Law Show this week on Radio 4 (and BBC Sounds), talking about football fan legislation. The other topics on the show are criminal court delays and protest cases.

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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 17d
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
David Squires on … Fifa’s peace prize and Donald Trump’s eligibility
Our cartoonist on how the US president’s actions in office may have put him in line for an award
www.theguardian.com

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 19d
You just knew that somehow they were going to mess up the new football regulator.
philippeauclair.bsky.social Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19d
A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.
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Lisa Nandy apologises for breaking rules on football regulator job

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 19d
A reminder that David Kogan was *not* on the shortlist for the position of head of the football regulator service and that the candidates who *had* been shortlisted were then ignored in his favour. Kogan did not even apply for the position.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 22d
succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

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uomlaw.bsky.social @uomlaw.bsky.social · 23d
Our lecturer, Dr Fiona Brimblecombe, has recently published her Open-Access monograph 'Defamation in the Digital Age and the "right to be forgotten"'. Check it out here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/defamation-i... @uomsoss.bsky.social

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 24d
In Birmingham today for the launch of the nine NPCC/UKRI Policing Academic Centres of Excellence.

Delighted to be one of the team representing Manchester-PACE, a collaboration between The University of Manchester and MMU @manmetuni.bsky.social

science.police.uk/delivery/res...
M-PACE – Manchester P-ACE, Manchester Metropolitan University with University of Manchester
M-PACE aims to support its policing partners in appreciating, developing and mobilising evidence and tools to successfully meet the challenges that they face.
science.police.uk

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 25d
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 25d
Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …

Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 26d
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."

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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27d
What he said: 💯 🎯

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 28d
The test for what is damage under the CDA is a really low bar, albeit subject to the AG Ref qualification. I'd be amazed if they wouldn't have been convicted of that.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 28d
That's made my day.