MINI-CONFERENCE OF EMPIRICAL CRIMINAL LAW EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON SENTENCING 20 to 22 January 2027, Prague, Faculty of Law Introduction This mini-conference brings together two networks of scholars: Emp...

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has a long-established tradition of sociological research, and we wish to recruit a sociologist with excellent

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

Call for Applications: 2026-2027 Academic Year OpeningThe Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications to fill a postdoctoral fellowship positio...

The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium taking place 18-19 May 2026

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.

A “carceral state” represents a critical definitional contrast to the more commonly invoked frames of “mass incarceration” or “mass criminalization.” Mass criminalization scholarship is typically focu...

Most Americans (79%) think it’s good for U.S. colleges and universities to accept international students.

It has been suggested that vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) is a cause of autism. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all children born in Denmark from January 1991 th...

But will it stick?

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Murder rates in D.C. — and in most major American cities — are at a near-record low. Yet Trump insists on ranting about "bloodshed, bedlam and squalor."

The Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) invites applicants for three (3) full-time faculty positions at the level of Assistant Professor (tenure track). We seek scholars spanning a wide array of ...

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn’s concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.

“In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

It’s time for policymakers, advocates, clinicians and researchers to recognize the broad role that poverty plays in neglect.