Jennifer J. Carroll, not that kind of doctor
@jencarroll.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist. Rig slinger. Drug/overdose research. Harm reduction collaborator. 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 Opinions my own.
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй.
Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй.
Came all the way back here just to say that this shit is so embarrassing.
August 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Came all the way back here just to say that this shit is so embarrassing.
Quite possibly the most "me" picture of me ever taken. Courtesy of Alyssa Kitlas ❤️
May 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Quite possibly the most "me" picture of me ever taken. Courtesy of Alyssa Kitlas ❤️
Is it just me, or does young Kier Egan look an awful lot like now Paul Rudd, and how inconsolable am I going to be when Paul Rudd doesn't show up by the season finale?
February 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is it just me, or does young Kier Egan look an awful lot like now Paul Rudd, and how inconsolable am I going to be when Paul Rudd doesn't show up by the season finale?
I must interrupt you to bring you this important update: cats love bathtubs.
January 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I must interrupt you to bring you this important update: cats love bathtubs.
16/ And all this matters because both police and civilians regularly buy into this mythology and incorporate it into their norms, values, and morals. This will have major consequences when we start discussing the intangible risks of police participating in scientific research.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
16/ And all this matters because both police and civilians regularly buy into this mythology and incorporate it into their norms, values, and morals. This will have major consequences when we start discussing the intangible risks of police participating in scientific research.
14/Though this takes place long after the article was written in 1988, some people now consider the "Homeland Security Era" (starting on 9/11) to be the historical era of policing that we are in today. But the residues and legacies of all these old policing strategies can still be seen everywhere.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
14/Though this takes place long after the article was written in 1988, some people now consider the "Homeland Security Era" (starting on 9/11) to be the historical era of policing that we are in today. But the residues and legacies of all these old policing strategies can still be seen everywhere.
13/ Side note: Lest you think I am just a cranky bitch who hates drug edu programs (I am, and I do, but there is more to it), here's a slide I sometimes use when speaking. D.A.R.E. at best had no impact, at worse increased substance use among kids and (later, as adults) decreased treatment. IT BAD.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
13/ Side note: Lest you think I am just a cranky bitch who hates drug edu programs (I am, and I do, but there is more to it), here's a slide I sometimes use when speaking. D.A.R.E. at best had no impact, at worse increased substance use among kids and (later, as adults) decreased treatment. IT BAD.
12/ The WoD continues to be marketed, but now, police are targeting Black ppl AND volunteering in schools, because the WoD propaganda has warped our minds to the point where the idea that crime law enf professionals naturally make good heath educators made sense. (they really really don't)
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
12/ The WoD continues to be marketed, but now, police are targeting Black ppl AND volunteering in schools, because the WoD propaganda has warped our minds to the point where the idea that crime law enf professionals naturally make good heath educators made sense. (they really really don't)
10/ Former Nixon council John Erlichman told Harper's Magazine in 2016 that they concocted the WoD and many of its most pernicious myths for the express purpose of criminalizing [anti-war] hippies and Black people. He doesn't mince words. That's literally what he said.
harpers.org/archive/2016...
harpers.org/archive/2016...
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
10/ Former Nixon council John Erlichman told Harper's Magazine in 2016 that they concocted the WoD and many of its most pernicious myths for the express purpose of criminalizing [anti-war] hippies and Black people. He doesn't mince words. That's literally what he said.
harpers.org/archive/2016...
harpers.org/archive/2016...
8/ Hold onto your pearls everyone. Those strategies don't actually work. Research emerged in the 1970s proving as much. Also crime escalated in the 1960s despite these strategies being in use. Also the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement seriously challenged the legitimacy of the police.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
8/ Hold onto your pearls everyone. Those strategies don't actually work. Research emerged in the 1970s proving as much. Also crime escalated in the 1960s despite these strategies being in use. Also the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-War Movement seriously challenged the legitimacy of the police.
7/ This is also the era when regular car patrols and 911 emerged. Like most police things, they emerged b/c they were sold to the public as effective crime prevention strategies b/c police sold THEMSELVES as crime prevention. The public was convinced thru marketing they needed these things.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
7/ This is also the era when regular car patrols and 911 emerged. Like most police things, they emerged b/c they were sold to the public as effective crime prevention strategies b/c police sold THEMSELVES as crime prevention. The public was convinced thru marketing they needed these things.
6/ In the Reform Era, the US public CANNOT EVEN with the political role of police. Changes are made to legitimize police as law enforcement agents independent of electeds. They limit the role to crime prevention and response. I love this quote from the article explaining this shift:
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
6/ In the Reform Era, the US public CANNOT EVEN with the political role of police. Changes are made to legitimize police as law enforcement agents independent of electeds. They limit the role to crime prevention and response. I love this quote from the article explaining this shift:
5/ In the political era, police serve under the patronage of politicians. They do crime stuff but also social stuff (soup kitchens, migrant housing). Officers are hired from within the communities they police. Rampant corruption, violence, racism, cronyism, also soup I guess?
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
5/ In the political era, police serve under the patronage of politicians. They do crime stuff but also social stuff (soup kitchens, migrant housing). Officers are hired from within the communities they police. Rampant corruption, violence, racism, cronyism, also soup I guess?
3/ This is an important piece not only because its ideas still shape how criminology textbooks are written today, but because one of the authors, George Kelling, is the creator of Broken Windows Theory, which (incorrectly) posits that visible disorder (broken windows) encourages actual crime.
January 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
3/ This is an important piece not only because its ideas still shape how criminology textbooks are written today, but because one of the authors, George Kelling, is the creator of Broken Windows Theory, which (incorrectly) posits that visible disorder (broken windows) encourages actual crime.
If you wanna tag along real close, here's the books we'll be reading cover to cover between Tuesday of next week and April 22nd. Lots of supplemental readings along the way too.
January 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If you wanna tag along real close, here's the books we'll be reading cover to cover between Tuesday of next week and April 22nd. Lots of supplemental readings along the way too.
This is truly the most satisfying thing I've ever seen/heard/felt deep in my soul.
December 31, 2024 at 6:40 AM
This is truly the most satisfying thing I've ever seen/heard/felt deep in my soul.
All the times that I'm late to a meeting, this is why I'm late to the meeting.
December 20, 2024 at 12:44 AM
All the times that I'm late to a meeting, this is why I'm late to the meeting.
In which no one is surprised
December 6, 2024 at 3:16 AM
In which no one is surprised
May I introduce you to Sleepy Derp and Sleepy Derp Derp.
December 6, 2024 at 1:42 AM
May I introduce you to Sleepy Derp and Sleepy Derp Derp.
Wow. I hath been brutally clocked.
December 2, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Wow. I hath been brutally clocked.
Mood:
November 28, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Mood:
Home, happy, and tired after another ASEEES and another long bout of bitching and brilliance from colleagues who understand the current war in 🇺🇦 better than anyone and are working hard to understand it even better. These 2 slides from my presentation on the legacy of 🇷🇺 colonialism sum it up well.
November 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Home, happy, and tired after another ASEEES and another long bout of bitching and brilliance from colleagues who understand the current war in 🇺🇦 better than anyone and are working hard to understand it even better. These 2 slides from my presentation on the legacy of 🇷🇺 colonialism sum it up well.
We cute.
November 23, 2024 at 10:00 PM
We cute.
My bingo card so far. I plead the 5th re: avoiding someone, but Vitaly sweeps the prizes for "nicest person ever" and "best goatee of all time" every single year.
November 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM
My bingo card so far. I plead the 5th re: avoiding someone, but Vitaly sweeps the prizes for "nicest person ever" and "best goatee of all time" every single year.
This anonymously distributed Slavics conference bingo card goes hard.
Follow along as I go for a bingo win this weekend.
Follow along as I go for a bingo win this weekend.
November 21, 2024 at 10:28 PM
This anonymously distributed Slavics conference bingo card goes hard.
Follow along as I go for a bingo win this weekend.
Follow along as I go for a bingo win this weekend.