'... economic inequality is mirrored by inequality before the law. ... The best measure of the health of a political system is who gets prosecuted.'

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For over 40 years, Tim Newburn has been a key figure in British and European criminology and social policy. Join LSE Social Policy and LSE Law School on 2 March to celebrate his career!

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As anyone following me may have figured I'm now in treatment for a serious health problem. This has meant standing back from work at LSE. My colleagues are kindly organising a celebration for me on March 2nd: lse.ac.uk/social-policy/…. Do share. Do keep in touch (email is good)

BBC News - Key crime stat excludes rape and other sexual offences
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' ... the phrase “ERG star chamber” has been deployed like it presages anything other than the apparently unstoppable rise of the idiots.'

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When I read that the increasingly desperate and tetchy #Sunak is proposing sending lawyers to Rwanda I wondered whether this was a cunning plan to rid the country of leftie lawyers and enemies of the people.

E P Thompson's Making of the English Working Class was published 60 years ago. Mon 4th Dec Sheila Rowbotham speaks on Radio3 about why it remains influential(full details at link, together with Roundtable discussion on the book hosted Socialist Historians ) kmflett.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/she…

Students
Aberystwyth University AU Department of Law & Criminology Aberystwyth Mooting AberBalch/AberPride Aber Student Services International Politics, Aberystwyth Film Society
get ready to #ChangeTheStory in your community, this #16DaysOfActivism & join us for our free film #FilmScreening eventbrite.co.uk/e/films-giving…

International students are an easy target but they are not migrants. They come to the UK on short term visas that are strictly regulated; they arrive with few (if any) dependents; & they make a HUGE contribution. Stop othering them & making them an excuse for govt failures

Every time I or my family need the NHS it comes up trumps. It’s not just the professionalism. It’s the carefulness and gentleness even when staff are under phenomenal pressure. Nobody will RT this because social media only validates click bait negativity. But thank you NHS. Xxx

S. Wydall and I are looking forward to presenting Dewis Choice research today at this excellent conference. We will be sharing the 'lived experiences' of older victims-survivors of DA #NationalSafeguardingWeek

A couple of weeks ago PCC Dafydd Llywelyn met with children and young people involved in the #PLKicks project in Newtown as part of Hate Crime Awareness Week. Our colleagues at Swansea City AFC Foundation have made a short video clip of the event.

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🚨🆕 Delighted to share my new article exploring maturity, young adulthood and experiences of policing in NI 🔓✅ #OpenAccess ✅🔓 in Youth Justice: An International Journal.

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Join researchers from the University of Surrey for a unique hybrid event looking at the role of #women in #politics - 2 Nov 6-7pm. Part of this year's Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science. Book here: 👉festivalofsocialscience.com/events/erasure… Dr Robyn Muir (she/her) Surrey Sociology

🕊 Pursuit of Peace - Festival of Research 2023

One week to go!

Join us across 7 days of inspiring talks, discussions, creative workshops, a book launch and more.

📆 1-7 November

Book free tickets👇
aber.ac.uk/researchfest

#AberResearchFest #AberDialogue #peace

BBC News - Band Filkins Drift walk 870 miles on tour around Wales
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“Long-term decisions for a brighter future” said #Sunak . Don’t know about the rest of us,but bankers will do ok -presumably soon to be joined by the ranks of unemployed cabinet ministers.🤨We’re all in this together folks, but some are in more than others. mirror.co.uk/money/obscene-…

The original 1985 book and the brand new reprint.
Still, I think, a fine text,but also for me a reminder of the enduring strengths, academic and personal, of friendship.

BBC News - Cardiff University Students' Union bans blue shirts and chinos

How times have changed.
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independent.co.uk/news/uk/alex-c… Community Service workers to scrub graffiti off walls. Fine to revive elderly policy aspirations, but to proclaim them as innovative shows a worrying ignorance of the past. 50 years of CS in this country and there's much to learn from studying its history.