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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For those of interested in border control see what our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have been up to this year…
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Read about the recent book on the history and present of Greek Immigration Detention by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc @andrianifili.bsky.social
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Silvia Gomes from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'Re-entry in Portugal: From Lived Experiences to Abolitionist Reimaginations' 🏛️💻 👇 shorturl.at/GdAeM
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social 's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring David Sklansky from @stanford.edu on 'Coercion, Control, and Complexity: Aiding and Abetting in the Context of Domestic Violence' 🏛️💻 👇 shorturl.at/vAyve
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Theoretical Criminology @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Interested in US border control and the experience of claiming asylum? Juliana in Arizona talks about what it's like : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Motherhood under Surveillance: The Gendered Violence of
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This UNIQ+ paid summer internship would be based here @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social working with our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social. please share with eligible UK undergraduates
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
From today, new immigration offences give the UK government even more power to criminalise and imprison people crossing the Channel in dinghies. Read an overview of the changes from @vickytaylor.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Check out our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social who have been as busy as ever with lots more planned for 2026
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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Once more unto the #ECRFriday, dear friends, once more! Laura Haas is a DPhil candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Her article on the deployment experiences of #prison staff with prior military experience is both interesting and impactful. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #Criminology #Psychology
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
In this moving piece, Mónica Ruiz House takes us with her on a search and recovery operation in the Sonoran Desert. Here, religion-in-transit creates a shared language of grief for those who have lost their lives on the way. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Please read this very moving piece by one of the @oxfordcrim.bsky.social MSc students about the US/MX border. Looking for Jesús: Embodied Religious Practices and Grief at the U.S-Mexico border blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Looking for Jesús: Embodied Religious Practices and Grief at
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
📆 Event on 12 Nov! Dr Matilde Rosina will examine migration deterrence policies, with a focus on the introduction of the “crime of migration”. Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Deterrence and the criminalisation of irregular
Abstract In Europe and beyond, deterrence-based policies are increasingly used as a response to
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Congratulations @andrianifili.bsky.social! we hope there will be a book launch soon! @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Our next Criminology All Souls Seminar 30 October - in person only, sign up at www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
A full house tonight for Dr Samuel Singler’s book launch @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social. Very pleased to have seen this from doctoral thesis to publication.The book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control, is open access at: repository.essex.ac.uk/41343/1/isbn...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🎓 Congratulations to Dr Luiz Dal Santo! Oxford DPhil Criminology graduate. "Punishment, State, and Society in the Global Periphery: Mass Incarceration, Mass Incorporation, and the Rise of a Protagonist Judiciary in Brazil", 📚 Luiz’s published research here: researchgate.net/profile/Luiz-Dal-Santo
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
See what our colleagues got up at the annual @bordercrim.bsky.social workshop
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
if anyone has any ideas about funding, our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have an unexpected shortfall for their communications work...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
this will be great. the book is excellent. please do join us!
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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity" Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social
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The Border as a Service Job: Supply Chain Justice—the Logistics of British Border Control by Mary Bosworth
Today’s newspapers are strewn with increasingly restrictive and populist positions on migration control and asylum politics. Many of these positions imagin
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📣The Centre for Criminology is delighted to announce our renewed partnership with justice reformer and philanthropist Lady Edwina Grosvenor to advance the important work of the Death Penalty Research Unit 🤲 Read more 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Advancing the global conversation around the death
The Centre for Criminology is delighted to continue to partner with justice reformer and
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Come and join us in Public Law @uctlaw.bsky.social. Five positions in international law, environmental law and criminal law. It is a fantastic department with a wonderful collection of colleagues doing cutting edge legal research. Further details below jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
See what our colleagues have been up @bordercrim.bsky.social
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Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal @crimandcj.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🚨 We're now on Bluesky! 🚨 Follow Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal for updates, calls for papers, and criminological conversations in a new space. 📢 @crimandcj.bsky.social Come say hi and help us build the CJ community on Bluesky too!
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Read our latest blog post written about one of our Trinity term All Souls Seminars: Genocide - The Crime of Crimes blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-crimi...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@vickytaylor.bsky.social on the continuity of cruelty in the UK/France deal and the lack of evidence about deterrence. Of interest to @bordercrim.bsky.social folks too: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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‘One in, one out’ Channel deal is just another cruel gimmick
Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people
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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 04/07/2025
Work in education and want to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence? Join our webinar to learn how to identify and intervene when a child or young person is at risk of becoming involved in violence and hear about our new tool. 📅 Sign-up youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A slightly more social sciencey-piece than normal from me about the results of the survey with detainee escorting staff that found 1 in 8 (12.6%) had had suicidal thoughts ‘some’, ‘most’ or ‘all the time’ over the previous 7 days: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Supply Chain Justice is an instant classic and an unexpected pageturner" Lovely review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice in Social Forces @sfjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... @princetonupress.bsky.social You can buy the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Review of “Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control”
Mary Bosworth’s timely book, Supply Chain Justice, takes readers for the first time inside Britain’s border control operations and details the logistics an
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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Join us for our final two amazing events of the year: the first on Tuesday (17th) at 4.15pm with the incredible @silvilunazul.bsky.social and Lorena Burbano on 'Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a non-penal feminist justice' (hybrid) @oxfordcrim.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Anti-carceral feminisms in Ecuador: toward a
Abstract: This presentation brings together the perspectives of academics and grassroots organisers
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"📣 We are #hiring! We are looking to appoint a 16-month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology. The post-holder will undertake research, teach & assess students, & support the work of the Centre. The post is full time and fixed term until 31 Dec 2026. Find out more: shorturl.at/kqtab
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Check out this updated reported by a team of committed colleagues including our very own DPhil student @vickytaylor.bsky.social
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Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sign up to our last All Souls Seminar of the year: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @dpruoxford.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
*NEW* DPRU Blog post Lawyer and @oxfordcrim.bsky.social MSc candidate Simran Chawdhary on punitive populism and performative justice in India’s capital trials, and how abolitionist advocacy can reframe justice beyond retribution: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...
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Exploring punitive populism and performative justice in India’s trial courts
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Read our latest blog from MSc student Andrew Lika: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/centre-crimi...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
just a reminder that @princetonupress.bsky.social books still on 50% off sale with code BLOOM50 this month including Supply Chain Justice and many other exciting new border control books (like Irene Vega's one on US border guards): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Supply Chain Justice
How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Sign up for our next All Souls Seminar: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
A full house at the @ox.ac.uk Vice-Chancellor’s awards day. Many congratulations to Carolyn Hoyle & the @dpruoxford.bsky.social team & colleagues at the death penalty project for being short listed
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Exciting to be nice and early at the @ox.ac.uk vice-chancellor’s award, where @dpruoxford.bsky.social has been shortlisted.
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Katy Mathers - Senior Commissioning Editor, Emerald Publishing @katymathers.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🆕️ Emerald Borders, Criminalisation and Society Series Unbelievably excited to be a part of this in collaboration with @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social, @andrianifili.bsky.social & Anthea Vogl ✨️
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Of interest for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social students who might have a bit more time this term?
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
[New Event] Join us for Race, Refuge & Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South (29–30 May, hybrid) — a powerful colloquium exploring the ties between colonial and postcolonial governance, international law, migration, and refugee protection: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congratulations on this publication @henryyeomans.bsky.social! 🎉
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We're hiring! 📢 Are you passionate about social media, content creation, and communications—with a strong interest in migration and border control? You might be the perfect fit for our Research & Communications Officer role at Border Criminologies. Spread the word: www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oxford Refugee Health Initiative is hosting a screening of Myanmar Diaries, followed by a talk! 📅 May 3, 7–9pm 📍 O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College 🎟️ Free to attend with donation tickets available to support the DEC Myanmar Earthquake Appeal More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/orhi-prese...
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ORHI Presents: MYANMAR DIARIES
Film Screening of MYANMAR DIARIES, followed by a talk with all proceeds going to the DEC Myanmar Earthquake Appeal
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My new book currently 50% off in @princetonupress.bsky.social book sale — a steal at £15/$17.50 even if I do say so myself! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Supply Chain Justice
How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Prof Shazia Choudhry, Oxford Faculty of Law gives our first All Souls talk of the term. Sign up via the event page: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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