Dr J Warr
@warrcrim.bsky.social
Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
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Hey #criminology, #sociology, #sensory, #prison #AcademicSky #Crimsky - I'm talking as part of the BSC prisons research network relaunch seminar series on Tuesday 25th, 1pm on "The Senses in Prison: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice". Here's the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hey #criminology, #sociology, #sensory, #prison #AcademicSky #Crimsky - I'm talking as part of the BSC prisons research network relaunch seminar series on Tuesday 25th, 1pm on "The Senses in Prison: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice". Here's the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
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This Wednesday 12 November at @qubcriminology.bsky.social and @ICCJ we have📣 @nicolacarr.bsky.social from @tcddublin.bsky.social.
✨ do join us!
The talk on Exploring Crime and Punishment is in the Law School at 1 pm.
✨ do join us!
The talk on Exploring Crime and Punishment is in the Law School at 1 pm.
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This Wednesday 12 November at @qubcriminology.bsky.social and @ICCJ we have📣 @nicolacarr.bsky.social from @tcddublin.bsky.social.
✨ do join us!
The talk on Exploring Crime and Punishment is in the Law School at 1 pm.
✨ do join us!
The talk on Exploring Crime and Punishment is in the Law School at 1 pm.
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On sentence inflation (in case anyone was in any doubt) www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
On sentence inflation (in case anyone was in any doubt) www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...
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BREAKING: The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including PM Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, reports Turkish media.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
BREAKING: The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 Israeli officials, including PM Netanyahu, Defence Minister Israel Katz, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, reports Turkish media.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lx1bfd
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I'm calling bullshit on college students these days being lazy or disinterested. They're great, and it's a privilege to teach them. That is all.
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm calling bullshit on college students these days being lazy or disinterested. They're great, and it's a privilege to teach them. That is all.
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No surprises here then. Just talk to families of those whose relatives have died after police violence and neglect - read inquest and inquiry reports going back decades. A commissioner who denies institutional racism. A system incapable of reform. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-black discrimination systemic in Met Police, report finds
Report author Dr Shereen Daniels said systemic racism was "not a matter of perception".
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
No surprises here then. Just talk to families of those whose relatives have died after police violence and neglect - read inquest and inquiry reports going back decades. A commissioner who denies institutional racism. A system incapable of reform. www.bbc.com/news/article...
One of the clearest signs of #ToxicManagerialism in #HigherEducation is when senior managers perceive their institutions fiscally rather than epistemically.
This is where ideology trumps function.
Result = cuts with minimal short-term monetary benefit but cause long-term harm
#UCUStrikes
This is where ideology trumps function.
Result = cuts with minimal short-term monetary benefit but cause long-term harm
#UCUStrikes
a white house with a black roof and a fallen tree in front of it
ALT: a white house with a black roof and a fallen tree in front of it
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
One of the clearest signs of #ToxicManagerialism in #HigherEducation is when senior managers perceive their institutions fiscally rather than epistemically.
This is where ideology trumps function.
Result = cuts with minimal short-term monetary benefit but cause long-term harm
#UCUStrikes
This is where ideology trumps function.
Result = cuts with minimal short-term monetary benefit but cause long-term harm
#UCUStrikes
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“Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber; a void where confused signals buzz about at random; where a murmur or innuendo causes panic: so, in the end, the machinery of repression is more likely to vanish, not with the war or revolution, but with a puff, or the voice of falling leaves” Bruce Chatwin Utz
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber; a void where confused signals buzz about at random; where a murmur or innuendo causes panic: so, in the end, the machinery of repression is more likely to vanish, not with the war or revolution, but with a puff, or the voice of falling leaves” Bruce Chatwin Utz
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Everything you need to know about the health of people in prison and on probation
New landmark report on the health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate.
www.russellwebster.com/everything-y...
New landmark report on the health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate.
www.russellwebster.com/everything-y...
Everything you need to know about the health of people in prison and on probation
Landmark report on the health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate.
www.russellwebster.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Everything you need to know about the health of people in prison and on probation
New landmark report on the health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate.
www.russellwebster.com/everything-y...
New landmark report on the health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate.
www.russellwebster.com/everything-y...
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Ministers commissioned a sentencing review and introduced the Sentencing Bill, knowing that change was needed to address the prisons crisis. But they risk making it even worse.
Briefing: https://howardleague.org/news/earned-regression-howard-league-outlines-concern-about-governments-prison-reforms/
Briefing: https://howardleague.org/news/earned-regression-howard-league-outlines-concern-about-governments-prison-reforms/
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ministers commissioned a sentencing review and introduced the Sentencing Bill, knowing that change was needed to address the prisons crisis. But they risk making it even worse.
Briefing: https://howardleague.org/news/earned-regression-howard-league-outlines-concern-about-governments-prison-reforms/
Briefing: https://howardleague.org/news/earned-regression-howard-league-outlines-concern-about-governments-prison-reforms/
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Your friendly neighbourhood #Criminologist here:
Dont know who needs to hear this, but ... No, your position on #StopAndSearch right now is not based on 'legitimate concerns', its based on #xenophobic, #racist, fuckery!
Using tragedy to push such an agenda is red flag #racism!
#Criminology
Dont know who needs to hear this, but ... No, your position on #StopAndSearch right now is not based on 'legitimate concerns', its based on #xenophobic, #racist, fuckery!
Using tragedy to push such an agenda is red flag #racism!
#Criminology
a man in a suit and tie says " don 't do that " in front of a city skyline
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " don 't do that " in front of a city skyline
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Your friendly neighbourhood #Criminologist here:
Dont know who needs to hear this, but ... No, your position on #StopAndSearch right now is not based on 'legitimate concerns', its based on #xenophobic, #racist, fuckery!
Using tragedy to push such an agenda is red flag #racism!
#Criminology
Dont know who needs to hear this, but ... No, your position on #StopAndSearch right now is not based on 'legitimate concerns', its based on #xenophobic, #racist, fuckery!
Using tragedy to push such an agenda is red flag #racism!
#Criminology
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Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World
What does it mean to be confined—and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. ...
www.routledge.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
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I really think if we all pull together, we can make bluesky what academic twitter was before they mangled it up? We need to get more proactive though (myself included). Big up early careers and one anothers' students, get excited by new works... #Criminology, we can do this...
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I really think if we all pull together, we can make bluesky what academic twitter was before they mangled it up? We need to get more proactive though (myself included). Big up early careers and one anothers' students, get excited by new works... #Criminology, we can do this...
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My forthcoming book”Police Reform: An Obituary” is now listed on the Routledge website and will be released on March 31st!! Please have your university library order a copy.
www.routledge.com/Police-Refor...
www.routledge.com/Police-Refor...
Police Reform: An Obituary
The fight against police brutality and impunity is a global struggle. This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed and led non-...
www.routledge.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My forthcoming book”Police Reform: An Obituary” is now listed on the Routledge website and will be released on March 31st!! Please have your university library order a copy.
www.routledge.com/Police-Refor...
www.routledge.com/Police-Refor...
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Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If so, then please consider applying to the LSE's inaugural criminology PhD Symposium:
www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
Mannheim Centre for Criminology | PhD Symposium 2026
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium taking place 18-19 May 2026
www.lse.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If so, then please consider applying to the LSE's inaugural criminology PhD Symposium:
www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
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A really sobering story about how vulnerable UK universities are to intimidation to get them to abandon human rights research. Claims by China in this report of inadequate "fact checking" should always be accompanied by mention of their exclusions from Xinjiang:
share.google/KY9SxTEk3rUM...
share.google/KY9SxTEk3rUM...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
share.google
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
A really sobering story about how vulnerable UK universities are to intimidation to get them to abandon human rights research. Claims by China in this report of inadequate "fact checking" should always be accompanied by mention of their exclusions from Xinjiang:
share.google/KY9SxTEk3rUM...
share.google/KY9SxTEk3rUM...
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How is a chatbot's output, which is mediated by a big company, which is designed to make you addicted to it through inter alia sycophancy and the Barnum effect, and which is designed to trick you into thinking you created it, when it's fractally stolen labour, IN ANY WAY AT ALL good and cool?
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
How is a chatbot's output, which is mediated by a big company, which is designed to make you addicted to it through inter alia sycophancy and the Barnum effect, and which is designed to trick you into thinking you created it, when it's fractally stolen labour, IN ANY WAY AT ALL good and cool?
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Police have announced that a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect for the train stabbing and the 35-year-old has been released with no further action
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
British Transport Police say that "at this stage there is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident" and they are still working to establish the full circumstances and motivation for the train attack
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
The investigation into the train stabbing in Cambridgeshire is being supported by Counter Terrorism Policing
The step is routine for violent incidents where the motivation is unclear, and police say they are working to understand the full circumstances of the attack
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
The step is routine for violent incidents where the motivation is unclear, and police say they are working to understand the full circumstances of the attack
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Police have announced that a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect for the train stabbing and the 35-year-old has been released with no further action
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
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I emailed Nadia Sass the wife of the man who was charged alongside the former leader of Reform Wales, Nathan Gill, & she sent me a long reply..all about Nigel Farage.
The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
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The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
2/
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I emailed Nadia Sass the wife of the man who was charged alongside the former leader of Reform Wales, Nathan Gill, & she sent me a long reply..all about Nigel Farage.
The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
2/
The weird thing is that I didn’t ask her anything about Nigel Farage.
2/
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Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. The courts ruled the entire political spying operation unlawful. She's written a book, Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files & is doing a speaking tour in Nov/Dec 🧵
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
Disclosure
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN
'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER
'It w...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. The courts ruled the entire political spying operation unlawful. She's written a book, Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files & is doing a speaking tour in Nov/Dec 🧵
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
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This is only the latest version of a recurring pattern. In the 1930s it was ‘if they are so poor how can they afford to go to the cinema?’ The response is that poverty is revealed not in choices but the cost of choices. What do they have to sacrifice to do or have things others take for granted?
Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
November 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is only the latest version of a recurring pattern. In the 1930s it was ‘if they are so poor how can they afford to go to the cinema?’ The response is that poverty is revealed not in choices but the cost of choices. What do they have to sacrifice to do or have things others take for granted?
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“……there appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“……there appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...