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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you're coming to #BSCC2026 then check out our roundtable on #SensoryCriminology (08/07; 17.30-19.00; LT4) with @kanupriya.bsky.social @kateherrity.bsky.social @amyg97.bsky.social Rose Boswell, @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social and me. #Criminology #WarStudies, #Zemiology, #Ecocide, #AbhorrentHeritage

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Yesterday, I signed a contract to publish my first solo book—Somewhere Like Home: Formerly Incarcerated Americans’ Quest for Belonging—with @ucpress.bsky.social.

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Red Ties and Orange Jumpsuits @jananiu.bsky.social's new #Socius article draws on interviews with formerly #incarcerated #Americans to demonstrate this group’s #political heterogeneity, specifically regarding Trump’s presidency and meaning for the nation. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Why do so many formerly incarcerated people support President Trump when his policies obviously harm them? In my new (open access!) article in @sociusjournal.bsky.social, I draw on 44 interviews to argue that it’s because of what he symbolizes: their own hopes for redemption. doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thank you so much to @jananiu.bsky.social for her talk in our lab meeting yesterday! Lots of in-depth qual data on the harms of imprisonment, including for the families of incarcerated people, and related topics like homelessness. Very much appreciate the chance to think together.

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📢 Coming in January, the #International Handbook in #Sensory #Criminology published with Routledge, and edited with fantastic colleagues @warrcrim.bsky.social @jananiu.bsky.social and @kanupriya.bsky.social. We'll be posting taster pieces nearer the drop at www.sensorycriminology.com

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Really proud of the team effort on this new article. We argue that, well before a conviction, people with pending charges are transformed into “incipient carceral citizens” who must reckon with uncertainty and a constricted social and legal landscape. doi.org/10.1177/1462...

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If anybody ever accuses me of not being American again, I will tell them about the time I went to the Bahamas during spring break. @catherinetan.bsky.social and I were invited to questionable, adults-only events. We read books and went to bed early instead.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“The shift from forced labor… laid the groundwork for the contemporary reliance on incarcerated people to fill labor shortages, not just in prisons but in industries like agriculture” 7 in 10 US farmworkers are foreign born; 40+% are undocumented The Trump deportations will be BIG for prison labor

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How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Could Fuel a Prison Labor Boom

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

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Dr Anna Kotova @annakotova.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Criminology people with interest in experiences of families of people in prison! I am keen to finally get this idea moving: an edited collection of chapters on stigma. Quite a lot to explore and lots of policy interest. Get in touch and pls share! docs.google.com/document/u/1...

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Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma

Families of people in prison: towards a sociological understanding of stigma Editor: Anna Kotova Context: Stigma is a well-documented phenomenon within research on families of people in prison. ...

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The ASA, American Federation of Teachers @AFT, and AFT-Maryland, facilitated by @DemocracyForward, have filed a complaint today in federal court in Maryland challenging the “Dear Colleague Letter” published by the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

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Educators Sue to Challenge Trump Administration's Efforts to Weaponize Civil Rights Laws, Attack Educational Programs and Student Opportunities - Democracy Forward

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

“Chaos” and “chaotic times” doing a lot of euphemistic heavy lifting in my emails.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Look, to fire all non-white people, they have to first be able to tell us apart. We can win this.

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Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here's my hot take of the day re: city-led innovations in non-police alternative responses/responders -- they're important bc they reduce CRIMINALIZATION not just whether or not they reduce "crime." Reducing police contact, reducing arrests for low-level offenses is a win.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Now more than ever, as the world falls apart, we need to listen to the experts. Read @catherinetan.bsky.social’s new op-ed on what happens when the healthcare system fails us.

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Kelly M. Socia, Ph.D. @kellymsocia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Well that's not fucking good. NIJ has cancelled all open grant opportunities.

NIJ webpage notice that all open grant opportunities have been cancelled.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I think people’s minds short-circuit so badly when they see “ethnic” names that they forget to cite these scholars. (Absolutely, 100% not talking about me, obviously.)

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Tomorrow is the first day of Spring semester. Once again, in my "Introduction to Sociology," I am sharing one of my favorite slides. Even though we are covering a lot of the classics, sociologists are no longer a bunch of old white dudes with beards.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I am the FIFTH reviewer for an article, brought in post-R&R after 4 people had already reviewed it once. Poor author. Poor reviewers, whose labor I am about to replicate. Poor me, who had no idea I would be reviewer #5 when I said yes to more work.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Reading about how nearly 90% of editorial boards across all Criminology journals are white. And we could probably list most of the other 10% by name if we tried because there are so few possibilities 😂. Brutal.

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Incarcerated people make up a third of CA’s firefighting force, earning “between $2.90 and $5 a day … slightly more when actively fighting a fire.” When compared to professionals: 4x more likely to be injured. 8x more likely to suffer from smoke inhalation. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

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The History of California's Inmate Firefighter Program

The initiative, which finds prisoners working as first responders and rescuers, dates back to the 1940s

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

People must realize that promises of early January deadlines were made in December, when I thought January was 50 years away.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, because incarceration has always been about practicality in America, right? Super practical to systematically destroy entire families and communities. Very sensible.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I didn't publish as much as I hoped to in 2024 (what else is new?) but this one was fun to write and I think the best thing I've written in a while.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas. As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open." Respect.

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Andrew @a.ndrw.dev · 23/12/2024

personally i think it's very cool that when you are poor and suspected of a crime you get thrown in jail while they figure out if you did it, while if you're rich and powerful you get to keep your job, get nominated to AG and make $ on cameo while people decide whether to publicly accuse you or not

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ending the year with a new article! I explore how family members of men who have engaged in violence draw on narrative techniques found in fictional literature to make sense of their loved ones’ actions. Criminologists, the humanities have so much to offer us! doi.org/10.1177/1741...

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My new piece in @time.com on why people still believe in the disproven vaccine-autism link. Vaccine “injury” suggests autism “recovery” is possible. It’s misinformation that gives families hope. The real problem: being disabled in the US fucking sucks. time.com/7203351/trum...

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Why People Believe Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism

Vaccines do not cause autism, however many Americans believe they do. Now, Trump and RFK Jr. are perpetuating the myth.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Nobody can beat the jokes out of us. Mine will be on full display in my office at my healthier, happier job where, I might add, I have not picked up any new stalkers.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today someone referred to a “person of color” and then talked about a “person of non-color.” Perfection.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Universities with giant endowments on Giving Tuesday

Fox Robin Hood dressed as a beggar in a brown shaggy robe shaking a cup for change

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etienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Tip for writers, especially academics . . .

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My op-ed in @newsweek.com "When it comes to improving public health, we cannot keep privileging personal preference. Individual health is inseparable from population health." www.newsweek.com/rfks-policie...

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RFK's Policies Sound Populist, But Indulge Elite Fantasies | Opinion

President-elect Donald Trump is stacking the Department of Health and Human Services with people who are poised to favor the health fantasies of the rich.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The algorithm here thinks I’m interested in scientific research…like on brain imaging. I am not that serious. Please just feed me animal pictures and memes.

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Shamelessly plugging my book about how controversial beliefs are turned into lived realities. One of the groups I studied long supported RFK Jr., sharing his takes on health. Check it out. It has everything: parasites, poop, rogue doctors, and one suspicious death. cup.columbia.edu/book/spaces-...

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Spaces on the Spectrum | Columbia University Press

Winner 2024 Sociology of Disability in Society Outstanding Publication Award, Disability in Society Section, American Sociological AssociationMovements that ... | CUP

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BK Lee @letitbk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Excited to share my paper published in ASR on unemployment and suicide!! Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Janani Umamaheswar @jananiu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

ASC needs to go back to being the week before Thanksgiving. Nobody is prepared for work this week. Hundreds of balls being dropped.

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Matthew Clair @mathuclair.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Today marks 4 years since the publication of PRIVILEGE & PUNISHMENT, which shows how attorney-client relationships reproduce inequality—and how to transform public defense, courts, and broader society. Check out this comic summarizing the book … press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Privilege and Punishment

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of color

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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Round 2 is here--The Sociologists have arrived. #SociTwitter #SocLife #AcadLife #AcademicTwitter go.bsky.app/R73omU6

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Erin Eife @erineife.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I created a starter pack for Sociologists/Social Scientists of Punishment. Please share and let me know if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/CpCJb3J

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christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack. This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful. go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z #ASC2024 #criminology

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The account has been reported and may be removed already. But in future, if you see variations of account using jane doe/ jane with bunch of numbers claiming harassment by me/ Catherine/ Janani, it is likely this stalker. She’s been known to create multiple Twitter accounts to harass and stalk us.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Dear friends, please do me a favor and block this person (janedoereports). She’s a stalker and harasser who migrated to Bluesky too. She has relentlessly harassed my friends and filed Title IX claims against us (I’ve never met her before). An article bout the stalker www.theverge.com/c/features/2...

Screenshot of a harasser/ stalker account janedoereports

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