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Reluctant criminologist, The Open University, convictions my own and others

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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Open University contribution to education in prison features in today’s Guardian. And I chip in as well www.theguardian.com/tone/letters
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Letters | The Guardian
Latest Letters news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
This handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe.
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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Hey #Criminology & #CJS, If you're interested in #prison & #SensoryCriminology then check out this week's #ThinkingAloud on BBC #Radio4 @kateherrity.bsky.social will be discussing her book Sound, Order and Survival in Prisons: The Rythms and Routines of HMP Midtown www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Prison violence, sound and survival
A prize-winning study of the sounds of prison life, and an exploration of victimisation.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
O’Toole calls the dynamic duo of BritPol “walking embodiments of political putrefaction”. Usual neat understatement. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps
If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Roger Ebert. 🤣😂🤣😂
THE REVIEWS ARE IN!
A NEW FILM
MELANIA
EXCLUSIVELY IN THEATERS JANUARY 30
"If syphilis were a movie!" - Indiewire
"I can't understand a f*cking thing she says!" - Variety
"Should be considered a war crime!"
- Hollywood Reporter
"Like being taken hostage by the Taliban!"
-NY Times
"Watching Melania's journey from Slovenian prostitute to First Lady is like walking barefoot in a field of Lego while you have explosive diarrhea!" - RogerEbert.com
"If Epstein really did kill himself, watching this film may have been why!" - Screen
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.equator.org/about this new journal is well worth a look. Great writing, great ideas.
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EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is behind a paywall but well worth a read, a good introduction to some of the ways whiteness is avoided, misunderstood and underestimated. Dm for a copy
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
www.lse.ac.uk/events/book-... With all this talk of Reform it is good to see the other ‘R’ word in the launch for this book: “We argue for the need for a revolution in violence reduction - to build a new movement for change that connects the dots between policy and the street.” Amen to that! Avanti!
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Mannheim Centre for Criminology | Book launch event
In this event we are bringing together some of the leading voices in violence reduction policy and practice, to prompt honest discussion about the future of violence reduction in the UK
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o... Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
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Opinion | Could This Unserious, Mischievous, Frightening Man Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Aime Cesaire: “that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it…”
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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...
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British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read
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Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press
This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider live...
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download @pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...
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Challenging Conceptions of “Borders” and “Race”: Q&A with E. Tendayi Achiume
E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science, comes to the Institute from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the international le...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political. www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Love, Class and Empire
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Love, Class and Empire
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
pmpress.org.uk/product/ingr...
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Ingrid Schubert: Letters from Prison 1970–1977
As a member of the Red Army Faction, Ingrid’s letters reveal the daily struggle of a political prisoner resisting repression.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:
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Centre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - Morning Live
Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is my mid-week gig! All welcome
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…
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Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with | Samuel Earle
Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Sycamore Gap tree duo do not belong in prison | Letters
Letters: Two men convicted of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree should face a punishment that fits the crime, not jail, writes Dr Rod Earle. Plus letters from Matt Powell, Shayne Mary Mitchell and Mi...
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
... also written by Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @profalexstevens.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @lbilli91.bsky.social @remyacb.bsky.social @dmachover.bsky.social @rodearle.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Check this out! Essential and timely and Open Access. Building an effective anti racist politics has always been an urgent priority and has never been easy. This really helps manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169662/
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Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
One of my very favourite versions of a very fine song. Take a listen. Two or three years old now and better every time. happypeoplerecords1.bandcamp.com/track/mumma-...
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(Mumma Was A) Bankrobber, by Happy People Records
from the album Perkie & The Co-operators - (Mumma was a) Bankrobber 7"
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Shocked. And saddened to read this. The OU can do better than this. insidetime.org/newsround/th...
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The OU’s second-class students: investigation
The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars across the UK. However, those hoping to continue learning after release …
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Good news is in short supply but I’d like to congratulate the very wonderful Dr Bill Davies on his promotion to Reader, the best of all academic titles. Bill and I have worked together on convict criminology in the UK since day 1. He is so modest about his achievements.
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Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fab opportunity to work with great people 👇👇👇
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Prison and prison ed folk here in UK might be interested in this US newsletter. www.opencampus.org/college-insi...
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College Inside - Open Campus
A biweekly newsletter about the intersection of two major systems shaping our society: criminal justice and higher education. Written by Charlotte West, Open Campus staff reporter. Know someone who do...
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Please share this call on your networks about prison and/or education www.ucu.org.uk/media/14950/...
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Luke Billingham @lbilli91.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Richard Yeboah's book about Hackney & gentrification is out soon. Pre-order here: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/from-h... I reviewed it & said: "Neither a lecture nor a rant, [the book] guides the reader through the contours of controversy with gentle tenacity, careful balance & a lot of heart"
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From Hackney, With Love
The London Borough of Hackney is one of the poorest areas in the country and a cultural epicentre for London’s diverse, working-class communities. It is also under threat. From Hackney, With Lov...
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid. Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces. People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Seeing Tenpole Tudor sing ‘Who Killed Bambi’ holds a very special place in my memory so seeing Robert de Niro being haunted by his demented warbling in the Netflix Zero Day series is seriously messing with me.
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Prof Erica Borgstrom @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The BBC is launching a special new season - Memories and Dementia: Starting the Conversation. I've been able to support this in my Media Fellow role at The Open University, with segments on Morning Live and additional content on OU Connect. Read about the season here: www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Memories and Dementia: Starting the Conversation season launches at the BBC
Dr Punam leads new season designed to help start conversations
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It should be obvious by now that Netanyahu won't stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza (and perhaps the West Bank) has been murdered, maimed or expelled. He wants it all. Governments like ours should cut off all military equipment, diplomatic support and other relations until the genocide ends.
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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New, free online course on tobacco #harmreduction thr.academy/academy/
thr.academy
THR academy — Tobacco Harm Reduction Academy
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Luke Billingham @lbilli91.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📢 Against Youth Violence, the book me and Keir Irwin-Rogers published in 2022, is now fully open access! 📢 Link here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book... Contents list in image. You can download chapter by chapter, or the whole thing. Please share!
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GCSJ - Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice @ou-gcsj.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Join us on 18 March for a special GCSJ research talk with Professor Catherine Hall. She explores the troubling history of the entanglements between Britain & Jamaica, through the establishment of a slave society. ⏰2-3.25pm 🌐 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1153349983849 #jamaica #slavery #colonialism
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Alice Ievins @aliceievins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
First up, Julie Laursen and Kristian Mjaland's contribution to this themed issue, 'The absent-presence of the offence in prisons in Norway and England & Wales' 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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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Some Canadian poetry for today. From Margaret Atwood's book, Morning in the Burned House. #poem #books #writing
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Ivan Kalmar @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The AfD is still biggest in the East and some will again blame this on the legacy of socialism, rather than the economic brutality that dominated Germany and Europe during unification. I've tried to address this issue here doi.org/10.1080/1478...
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The east is just like the west, only more so: Islamophobia and populism in Eastern Germany and the East of the European Union
Islamophobia in Eastern Germany and in East Central Europe has very similar characteristics to Islamophobia in Western Europe and the USA. The difference, of degree rather than kind, is in the succ...
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wilde coins them, @warrcrim.bsky.social shares them.
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
thejazzcafe.com/event/courtn... Ticket available dm me if interested.
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Courtney Pine - The Jazz Cafe
No musician more embodies the dramatic transformation in the British jazz scene over the past twenty-plus years than saxophonist Courtney Pine. The groundbreaking, multi-instrumentalist has led a gene...
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
We are just getting started…👇 Aren’t we?! 🤚 Rage. On. ✨
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Rod Earle @rodearle.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Powerful writing on terrible events in Scotland’s prisons www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dani Garavelli · Jailed, Failed, Forgotten: Deaths in Custody
William had spent most of his life in the care of the state. His story was one of intergenerational trauma, common to...
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