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Jack Spicer

@jackhspicer.bsky.social
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Criminologist at University of Bath. Interested in drug markets, policing, policy and harm reduction

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James Windle @jameswindle.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Job alert - Lecturer in Criminology - Fixed Term Whole-time Post (duration 3 years) - University College Cork (Ireland) Join a nice team, doing quality research in a cool city www.ucc.ie/en/collectiv...
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Lecturer in Criminology | University College Cork
UCC wishes to appoint an academic to the role of lecturer in Criminology.
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Jack Spicer @jackhspicer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New from me in CMC journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Chaotic conceptualisation, hyper-chronocentrism and cautionary tales: A cultural realist analysis of County Lines - Jack Spicer, 2025
A decade after County Lines drug supply was initially identified by the National Crime Agency, this article critically examines its cultural legacy. While Count...
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New article in British Journal of Criminoligy - Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...
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Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England
Abstract. This article explores how discretion is managed and exercised across senior, middle, and street levels of policing. It uses qualitative data from
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Thomas Friis Sogaard @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Call for papers for SI on Hybrid Drug Markets. Will explore the blurred on- and offline aspects of drug markets, drug use & harm reduction. Edited by @monicabarratt.bsky.social @thomasfriissogaard.bsky.social, @Robin van der Sanden. Abstracts 20 Sep. www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pa...
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Digital-physical hybridity in drug markets and harm reduction
This special issue develops a more integrated approach to conceptualising relationships between the digital and physical in drug markets and harm reduction using concept of “digital-physical hybridity...
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Jack Spicer @jackhspicer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mixed methods PhD opportunity here at Bath looking at cannabis criminalisation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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How does a drug policy of ‘criminalisation’ influence people who use cannabis? A mixed methods project including quantitative comparison of international policies, longitudinal analysis with data link...
PhD Project - How does a drug policy of ‘criminalisation’ influence people who use cannabis? A mixed methods project including quantitative comparison of international policies, longitudin...
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Rob Ralphs @robralphs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great to see this paper out from 2 of my fav ppl in the drug market research field:👍👇 academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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Competing Through Service: Entrepreneurial Bricolage and the Servitization of Local Drug Markets
Abstract. Customer services has long been a central pillar of drug sellers’ attempts to build and maintain customer loyalty. However, recent years have see
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Prof Harry Sumnall @profhrs.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New RAND Europe review for the Home Office finds that drug-related law enforcement activities are of limited effectiveness in reducing violence, and may even increase it www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide: A systematic review
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The long-awaited evaluation of Project ADDER is now out, and makes fascinating reading for all with a concern for illicit drug problems in England and Wales. A thread: 1/? ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-adder-impact-evaluation/project-adder-impact-evaluation#key-findings
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Project ADDER: Impact evaluation
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Now out in Critical Criminology. #Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System: Three English Cases. By me, @schreeche.bsky.social, @lbilli91.bsky.social & Keir Irwin-Rogers. 1/? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Call for abstracts for #issdp2025 has been extended to 31st January (you've still got time to submit your excellent drug policy research!) pretalx.com/internationa...
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International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) 2025
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) 2025
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Gillian Shorter PhD @gwshorter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Good luck today Saket, Lynn and to all at the Thistle on the first sanctioned safer consumption facility in the UK. So much work to get this done. Congratulations to all who played their part over so many years. www.scotsman.com/news/inside-...
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Inside the safe consumption room tasked with helping to drive down drug deaths
Team behind UK first centre aim to save lives and improve public health
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Andrew Cunningham @andcunningham.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Bad news that these fake oxycodone tablets containing nitazenes are circulating in the UK.
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Niamh Eastwood @niamhrelease.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Really honoured to be part of the organising committee for this year’s Int Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) in Manchester. Hosted by Manchester Met (who madly made me a visiting professor ☺️). Call for abstracts opened www.issdp.org
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The International Society for the Study of Drug Policy
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Ben Crewe @bencrewe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Institute of Criminology is advertising the position of an Associate Professor to lead the Master of Studies (MSt) programme in Applied Criminology, Penology & Management. This is a part-time role on a fixed-term basis for three years. Further information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49313/
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Niamh Eastwood @niamhrelease.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
📣 Release is recruiting a research lead for a new 4 yr project (Seriously thrilled about this). Working with unhoused folks we want to explore how housing policies must be inclusive of people who use drugs. www.release.org.uk/vacancy-rese... Deadline 25 Nov (excited this is my first post here)
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Vacancy - Research Lead
This 4-year funded project aims to challenge and reduce the structural violence and stigma faced by unhoused people who use drugs face significant barriers to stable housing due to current policies. T...
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is why I like the concept of harm reduction policing, which encourages us to think about limiting the harms of coercive control, as well as the harms we label as crimes.
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