Robin Gålnander
@robingalnander.bsky.social
Feminist criminologist studying desistance from crime. Associate Professor at Stockholm University
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Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy
This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, ...
www.routledge.com
Publication day! @spookademic.bsky.social and I wrote a book, deep diving into the struggles involved in desistance from crime and - crucially - dealing with concepts of normalcy from a position as outsider.
Halloween is saved! 👻🎃🧛♀️
I dare say this book release has impeccable timing. However, getting my author copies just in time for Halloween might have caused a less-than-serious approach to this post. 🎃 #criminology
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Halloween is saved! 👻🎃🧛♀️
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I'm sure Nicola did the book proud! More details about this edited collection, Parole Futures, available here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parole-fu...
October 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'm sure Nicola did the book proud! More details about this edited collection, Parole Futures, available here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/parole-fu...
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Let us (the #British) be honest. If your major #politics proposal involves the mass deportation of 'others' on the basis of cultural cohesion... you're trying to legitimate a form of ethnic cleansing!
In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life!
#UKPolitics
In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life!
#UKPolitics
a man is carrying another man on his shoulders in front of a garbage can that says city
ALT: a man is carrying another man on his shoulders in front of a garbage can that says city
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Let us (the #British) be honest. If your major #politics proposal involves the mass deportation of 'others' on the basis of cultural cohesion... you're trying to legitimate a form of ethnic cleansing!
In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life!
#UKPolitics
In a moral society that immoral shit should get you banished from a political life!
#UKPolitics
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I finally got around to turning what started as a presentation at ESC in Florence a couple of years ago into an article in CMC! 🥳
Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)
#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography
Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)
#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography
No longer happening, not yet resolved: The courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold - Tea Fredriksson, 2025
This article explores the courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold, where past harms are rearticulated and future outcomes are yet uncertain. Drawing on ethnogr...
journals.sagepub.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I finally got around to turning what started as a presentation at ESC in Florence a couple of years ago into an article in CMC! 🥳
Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)
#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography
Open access, and lots of pictures! (Somehow, the PDF has better photo placements than the online layout)
#criminology #sensorycriminology #courthouseethnography
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Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here:
www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...
www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here:
www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...
www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...
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Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza
September 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gaza: UN experts urge General Assembly to respond to famine and genocide
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#Gaza
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#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect
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September 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
#ESC European Society of Criminology's general meeting in Athens - overwhelming majority in support of the motion in favour of boycotting Israeli institutions complicit in war crimes - with no effect
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New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...
Medical Debt Behind Bars - Anna Anderson - Inquest
Incarcerated people accrue debt for nearly all of their medical care. This makes a mockery of their right to health care—and saddles them with devastating debt upon release.
inquest.org
September 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New! Anna Anderson on Medical Debt Behind Bars
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to care but often lack access to insurance and must bear the costs (and debt) of copays, fees, medications, emergency charges, and ambulance & hospital bills. inquest.org/medical-debt...
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📘 Not sure when a conviction is “spent”?
Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.
💡 Clear steps, less stress.
👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025
#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure
Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.
💡 Clear steps, less stress.
👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025
#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure
Spent or Unspent | Next Chapter Scotland
How to work out whether your conviction is spent or unspent
www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
📘 Not sure when a conviction is “spent”?
Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.
💡 Clear steps, less stress.
👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025
#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure
Our guide breaks it down simply what to disclose, when, & to who.
💡 Clear steps, less stress.
👉 www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk/topic/spent-or-unspent-2025
#SupportNotStigma #Disclosure
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This is such a profoundly bad move by the #EuroCrim2025 organisers/Board.
Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.
People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.
I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.
#ESC2025
Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.
People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.
I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.
#ESC2025
Here we go #eurocrim2025. Holding the conference at a US institution in Athens with American security measures that you would expect at an embassy does not feel right especially considering the current human rights violations happening in the US.
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is such a profoundly bad move by the #EuroCrim2025 organisers/Board.
Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.
People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.
I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.
#ESC2025
Bad for #criminology in Europe. It undermines work that has been done under its auspices.
People should ask for a return of their conference/membership fees.
I hope @britsoccrim.bsky.social is paying attention.
#ESC2025
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My PhD research 'Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales' is now available online!
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales - White Rose eTheses Online
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:13 AM
My PhD research 'Violence, Self-Harm, and Suicide in Prison: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prison Inspection and Political Reporting on Prisons in England and Wales' is now available online!
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/36...
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All set up for #EuroCrim2025 or #EuroCrim25. Come and say hello if you want to talk #criminology publishing. I can also talk about music, movies and books.
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
All set up for #EuroCrim2025 or #EuroCrim25. Come and say hello if you want to talk #criminology publishing. I can also talk about music, movies and books.
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UK - More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women.
Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Femicide Census says more mums killed by sons than by strangers
The Femicide Census says 12 women were killed by their sons in 2022 and 11 by a stranger.
www.bbc.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
UK - More women were killed by their son than by a stranger, according to new figures from a campaign group looking at violence against women.
Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Of 121 women killed by men in 2022, 12 were killed by their sons and 11 were killed by someone they did not know. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US military spending is the reason Americans can’t have nice things like free healthcare.
“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social
“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
US military spending is the reason Americans can’t have nice things like free healthcare.
“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social
“Federal spending on the Department of Defense accounts for half of all discretionary spending (49%) and more than half (60%) of federal employment as of the end of fiscal year 2024.” @costsofwar.bsky.social
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The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...
World Archaeological Congress Statement on Exclusion of Ariel University Affiliated Scholar from WAC-10 – World Archaeological Congress
worldarchaeologicalcongress.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The European Society of Criminology should take the principled lead of the World Archaeological Congress in relation to the participation of delegates from Ariel University #EuroCrim2025 worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/blog/world-a...
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BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)
(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
BREAKING: The International Association of Genocide Scholars declares that Israel's actions in Gaza "meet the legal definition of genocide" and "constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity."
(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)
(Source: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...)
I'm an associate professor 🤯🎓💐 #criminology
August 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm an associate professor 🤯🎓💐 #criminology
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Important information for anyone attending the European Society of Criminology in Athens and for members of ESC. Petition outlines serious concerns. Consider what you can do to support 👇👇 👇#eurocrim
ESC colleagues: petition & important vote at the General Assembly. If not boycotting, vote. Or a 3rd option: use presentation time to discuss complicity and promote attendance at the GE?
I'm scheduled to present on asylum seekers & everyday resistance. It would be unethical if I didn't resist too
I'm scheduled to present on asylum seekers & everyday resistance. It would be unethical if I didn't resist too
... and if you still intend to attend, get behind the motion to be discussed and voted on at the General Assembly of the 25th Eurocrim Annual Conference, on 05.09.2025 at 13:00
criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com
criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Important information for anyone attending the European Society of Criminology in Athens and for members of ESC. Petition outlines serious concerns. Consider what you can do to support 👇👇 👇#eurocrim
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Norway’s parliamentary elections are coming up. As in many other European countries, the right is focusing on immigration and crime. But Norway remains a remarkably prosperous, diverse, and safe society. Rarely have the right’s talking points seemed more unreal.
Norway's Right Is Obsessed With Immigration and Crime
Norway is a safe, prosperous, and diverse society. So why can't the right stop talking about immigration and crime?
www.theorybrief.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Norway’s parliamentary elections are coming up. As in many other European countries, the right is focusing on immigration and crime. But Norway remains a remarkably prosperous, diverse, and safe society. Rarely have the right’s talking points seemed more unreal.
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This is my pile of books to take to the ESC conference in Athens next week. I honestly don't think they will all fit, so apologies in advance.... Looking forward to hitting the road again and talking #criminology with current and future authors and editors.
August 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is my pile of books to take to the ESC conference in Athens next week. I honestly don't think they will all fit, so apologies in advance.... Looking forward to hitting the road again and talking #criminology with current and future authors and editors.
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🚨I'm very excited to announce the launch of my report: Release from long-term imprisonment. This report is based on a new empirical study I conducted last year into the release experiences of people who have served very long prison sentences.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🚨I'm very excited to announce the launch of my report: Release from long-term imprisonment. This report is based on a new empirical study I conducted last year into the release experiences of people who have served very long prison sentences.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/publication/...
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As part of their Access to Justice spotlight series, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published a new report 'exposing serious failings in the way complaints are handled in Scotland’s prisons.'
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...
August 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As part of their Access to Justice spotlight series, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) have published a new report 'exposing serious failings in the way complaints are handled in Scotland’s prisons.'
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...
#HumanRights #Prison #Law #Criminology
🔗 👇
www.scottishhumanrights.com/news/scottis...
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📖 Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, & Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander is now on our YouTube page.
@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social
youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...
@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social
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Book Talk: Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy
YouTube video by The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
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July 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
📖 Book Talk: 'Desistance, Resistance, & Normalcy' with Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander is now on our YouTube page.
@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social
youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...
@spookademic.bsky.social @robingalnander.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @margueritesch.bsky.social
youtu.be/UYT-YytzY-c?...
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📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...
Sound, Order and Survival in Prison
Sound, Order and Survival in Prison - The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown; The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...