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Sarah Anderson
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Lecturer, criminologist, trade unionist, half-hearted social media user. Works on #desistance, #trauma, #prisons, #criminaljusticeharms #healthandjustice and #hackingcareers.
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Sarah Anderson @saraheanderson.bsky.social · Jul 21
NEW #textbook on Criminal Justice in #Scotland by me & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social @socscinapier.bsky.social colleagues, Jamie Buchan and @kmmorrison.bsky.social, out on 4th Aug. Until the 1st it's £8 off in the Routledge sale: www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as w...
www.routledge.com
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frasoliman.bsky.social
My brilliant colleagues' recent funding successes have opened up 2 fixed term positions in our criminology team at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social; if you are an early career researcher, or you are finishing up/just out of a PhD, we would love to hear from you.
socscinapier.bsky.social Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · Aug 18
📢 2 fixed term positions are currently available within our criminology team 📢

1 Lecturer in Criminology
Full time (35 hours p/w), Fixed Term (9 months)
Grade 6 - £46,049 to £58,225 per annum
Colleagues at the PhD submission/viva stage are welcome to apply
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH075/l...
Lecturer in Criminology, Full time, Fixed Term at Edinburgh Napier University
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www.jobs.ac.uk
August 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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stirunicriminology.bsky.social
Just Images is a new #podcast about crime & culture created by students at University of Stirling in Cultural and Creative #Criminology module, led by Dr Phil Crockett Thomas. All episodes made by students, apart from the first (an interview with Dr Lucy Cathcart Frödén) justimagespodcast.stir.ac.uk
Just Images Podcast
justimagespodcast.stir.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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edinburghnapier.bsky.social
🧑‍⚖️ | The first book in a decade to focus entirely on Scotland’s criminal justice system has been published.

Learn more about Criminal Justice in Scotland ⤵️

Story ➡️ orlo.uk/zWH3F

#MustBeNapier | @socscinapier.bsky.social
Cover page of the textbook Criminal Justice in Scotland.
August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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And today’s publication day!

Massive thanks to my lovely @socscinapier.bsky.social co-authors, Jamie Buchan & @kmmorrison.bsky.social - and to everyone who helped by reviewing chapters, answering queries or chatting to us about their work.

www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as w...
www.routledge.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
saraheanderson.bsky.social
This is the first book in a decade to look at the Scottish criminal justice system as a whole.

Tomorrow is final day to get the discounted offer…
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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academicdiary.bsky.social
We have an opening for a one-year Sociology Lectureship in Glasgow focused on teaching the sociology of class. Please share it with anyone interested. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Sociology (LTS)
College of Social SciencesSchool of Social & Political Sciences Lecturer in Sociology (LTS)Vacancy Reference: 178793Salary, Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum pro rata. The School of Social a...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
July 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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gavmaclean.bsky.social
Critical AI in Higher Education event in Edinburgh, Monday 1st September

Featuring @semacrae.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @huwcdavies.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and more to be added.

Sign up link here...and please share!
Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network
The event is aimed at creating a space for critical discussion of AI across our universities in Edinburgh
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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patrickdunleavy.bsky.social
Scotland’s distinctive criminal justice system is nicely summarised in the first chapter (free to read) of James Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrisons new book *Criminal Justice in Scotland* s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-store-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/978100337288...
July 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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New article on utopia, abolition and science fiction published open access @thesociologicalreview.org! If you want to read the creative writing by the project's (brilliant) participants which I discuss in the paper, the eBook is free to download at abolitionscifi.org
thesociologicalreview.org The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 15
“Fiction is an important space where activists reckon with the complexity of their hopes about distant futures.”

@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social on what science fiction teaches us about the struggle for prison abolition.

#OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
July 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
saraheanderson.bsky.social
NEW #textbook on Criminal Justice in #Scotland by me & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social @socscinapier.bsky.social colleagues, Jamie Buchan and @kmmorrison.bsky.social, out on 4th Aug. Until the 1st it's £8 off in the Routledge sale: www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...
Criminal Justice in Scotland
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as w...
www.routledge.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Surveillance on bank accounts is *very* intrusive - it’s not just about money, it can reveal all kinds of personal and behavioural traits that are none of the government’s business.

It’s also a matter of dignity: why should benefit claimants have to sacrifice that?
annadent.bsky.social Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · May 22
Millions of people could have their bank account scanned for unspecified indicators of benefit fraud - with no need for govt to demonstrate any suspicion or other reason.

The measures might only recoup 2% of fraud and error.

Mass surveillance for little gain - does that feel fair?
UK Fraud Bill targets benefit claimants for mass surveillance | Computer Weekly
The UK government’s proposed Fraud Bill will disproportionately place millions of benefit claimants under constant surveillance, creating a two-tier system where people are automatically suspected of ...
www.computerweekly.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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danigaravelli.bsky.social
A sheriff has ruled Jack McKenzie's Polmont suicide was preventable. He also said 2 prison officers who failed to carry out a proper hatch-check an hour before Jack's body was found should have been disciplined/retrained. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social story. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2517634...
www.heraldscotland.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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chris-noone.bsky.social
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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drhannahgraham.bsky.social
A sharp rise in the use of discipline and (further) punishment within Scottish prisons.

"Prison chiefs dished out 64,146 punishments to inmates flouting regulations – up from 47,803 in 2022/23."

Obviously, instances of violence are awful for all affected.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2025/05/exam...
Examining the discipline exercised in Scottish prisons
Scotland’s prison inmates were given more than 30,000 discipline raps in just a year, it can be revealed – for offences including drugs, violence, smuggling and arson. Scottish Prison Service (SPS) fi...
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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thesccjr.bsky.social
Major new report out today from SCCJR on the number of deaths in custody.

❗️Prison deaths in Scotland have surged to 64 in the last year.

bit.ly/deaths-in-cu...

Watch this short video to find out the key stats👇
April 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
saraheanderson.bsky.social
No apology. Not so much as an acknowledgement of what Peter Sullivan has been through.

www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseys...
Merseyside Police statement following the Court of Appeal decision in relation to Peter Sullivan
Today Peter Sullivan has been released from custody after the Court of Appeal decided that his original conviction of the murder of Diane Sindall in 1986 was unsafe following advancements in testing o...
www.merseyside.police.uk
May 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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frasoliman.bsky.social
Utterly delighted to see this MSc out in the world after so much hard work went into its design. Come study #criminology (and #zemiology) with us at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social, you couldn't find a better team than the outstanding scholars and educators I have the pleasure of calling my colleagues
socscinapier.bsky.social Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social · Mar 7
The MSc Crime and Justice in Practice focuses on real-world practice in criminal, restorative, and transformative justice, and will help you develop a critical understanding of the role and impact of applied justice policy and research.

#criminology

www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-...
Crime and Justice in Practice
At Edinburgh Napier University, we nurture talent and create knowledge that shapes communities all around the world.
www.napier.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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gbuttars.bsky.social
If you've not already signed this in support of @uniteucu.bsky.social, you still can. Staff working conditions are our organising conditions tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...
UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality
Please NOTE: This letter started accepting signatures on 20 March 2025. The letter was sent to Jo Grady at 9am on Thursday 27 March 2025 with 315 signatures. Signatures are still accepted after this t...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
These are not isolated experiences.
“Working for UCU has broken me. I spent the whole of last year very unwell due to the treatment I received from the employer, and I am still in recovery. My motivation has been destroyed completely. None of my work, past or present, is valued, and I know they would rather I was not here and not trying to do good things for members." “And now, you look around at the place you were proud to work for and at the hollow husk it's become... where bullying is rife, where racism and inequality stare at you daily, where nepotism rules, and where colleagues falling to mismanagement and going off sick is now a regular occurrence."
April 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
Why do we strike? We’ll let our members give you some reasons why.
“I was off sick with work-related stress. I started crying every time I sat at my desk and I developed insomnia. I was having suicidal thoughts- my family were so scared. The stress at UCU is systemic and a direct result of a chaotic organisation that isn't functioning- there is no plan, no vision, no functioning management structure." “ ...watching so many wonderful colleagues get sick and in some cases not come back has been the most painful part of this though. Hearing black colleagues accused of unprofessionalism, insubordination & aggression, for doing the same things their white colleagues do... and then repeated denial that this is racism." “This is an organisation that does not care about staff development, never mind wellbeing... I could disappear tomorrow and I don't think anyone would know."
April 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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inquest-org.bsky.social
At our Family Listening Day, 23 people spoke about the cover-ups, victim-blaming & defensiveness they have faced in their fight for truth & accountability.

They say Hillsborough Law must include a duty of candour & legal aid funding for victims of disasters or deaths involving the state.
April 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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inquest-org.bsky.social
Today, bereaved families and survivors have issued a clear warning to Government that Hillsborough Law must be "All or Nothing".

Our new report shows how the injustice following the Hillsborough disaster is still a painful reality today.

Read our report:
www.inquest.org.uk/hillsborough...
April 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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rdwglass.bsky.social
Miner's Strike 1984-1985, 40th anniversary stained glass window. Kincardine Library. Fife. Scotland. Designed and made by the Local community and Keira Mclean. #stainedglass #scotland
Stained glass window depicting the 40th anniversary of the 1984-85 Miners Strike
April 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
It gets worse…

Members back at work today after taking lawful strike action are now being threaten with disciplinary procedures if their auto-replies mention the reason for their absence during future strikes.

In what trade union world is this acceptable?
Extract from email to members threatening disciplinary action if they mention strikes in future out of office replies.
April 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
saraheanderson.bsky.social
Just to reiterate, the employer in this case is a UNION who encourages its own members to raise awareness of their own action (just google UCU and ´out of office’s message wording to see multiple examples) but is censoring staff who try to raise awareness of theirs. #ucu
uniteucu.bsky.social Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Mar 31
Our employer is editing our members’ out-of-office replies to remove reference to our strike action. They are choosing to censor us rather than talk to us.
Unite UCU’s suggested out-of-office wording for strike days overlaid with a ‘CENSORED by our trade union employer ’ stamp. “What out-of-office message should we use on strike days? We suggest all members use the following wording on strike days: I am not currently at work due to taking part in escalating strike action called by Unite, the trade union for UCU staff, over our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture.” ON STRIKE Thursday 28 - Friday 29 March Monday 31 March - Wednesday 2 April Monday 7 - Thursday 10 April Monday 14 - Wednesday 16 April Wednesday 23 - Friday 25 April Monday 28 - Friday 2 May
April 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM