David Adlington-Rivers's Starter Pack
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@forensichope.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@pippacrerar.bsky.social
Political Editor, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
@shattenstone.bsky.social
Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
@gemabbott.bsky.social
Legal Director @thehowardleague.bsky.social. Trustee @dignityindying.org.uk. Views my own. She/her 🏴
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@hannahnpbowman.bsky.social
Literary agent @ Liza Dawson Associates, prison abolitionist, public theologian hannahnpbowman.com christiansforabolition.org Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons (Fortress, forthcoming in 2026) She/her
@ctmccartney.bsky.social
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice interested in INjustice. Focus on #forensics #AI science/tech in criminal justice. Also nuts about Prince, Maneskin, professional cycling, politics, comedy, gigs and more. #academicsky (1st-gen)
@profdamienpage.bsky.social
Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky
@perkinskeighley.bsky.social
#Linguist, lecturer & researcher at Swansea University. Interested in #ForensicLinguistics, #Identity, #OnlineHarms & the #RadicalRight. All views are my own. https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
@gmhales.bsky.social
Researching/discussing policing, crime and the criminal justice system. Senior Associate Fellow @policefoundationuk.bsky.social but my own views. Based in London, UK.
@researchdigest.bsky.social
The latest psychological research, digested by the British Psychological Society. www.bps.org.uk/research-digest Sign up for our free weekly newsletter: www.tinyurl.com/digestemail
@bpsofficial.bsky.social
For over 120 years we’ve championed our members & psychology as a discipline. For customer support contact: info@bps.org.uk. Shares & ❤ not (always) endorsements.
@shonaminson.bsky.social
Women's Justice Board member BBC New Generation Thinker Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford Family law/ criminal law intersections. Children's rights. Procedural Justice Creative public engagement. Once upon a time I was a barrister
@drcodyporter.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer and UG Programme Lead UWE Bristol | Investigative interviewing, lie detection, mental health & offending behaviour | Deputy Editor II-RP Psychologist | Criminologist
@thehowardleague.bsky.social
Building a more humane and effective response to crime. Join: https://howardleague.org/membership/ Give: http://PayPal.Me/howardleague
@ana-chamberlen.bsky.social
Working @ Dept. of Sociology at Warwick University. Researching prisons; punishment; gender & criminal justice; arts & aesthetic injustice. Current project: www.captivearts.co.uk (AHRC). Profile: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/chamberlen/
@shipleywrites.bsky.social
Did corporate finance, produced a film, committed a fraud. Served my time. Horrified by the prison system. I write and talk and try to change it. Words in Inside Time, The Spectator, the i, amongst others. david@david-shipley.com
@nick-mann.bsky.social
Director of Comms at Prison Advice and Care Trust. Interested in anything politics, criminal justice and charity. Camberwell, SE London. www.prisonadvice.org.uk
@rachelcondry.bsky.social
Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Fellow of St Hilda’s College. Crime & family - prisoners’ families, family violence, parricide, youth justice.
@samfletcher.bsky.social
Director of Comms @suttontrust.bsky.social. Social justice, inequalities, facts & stats. Mum of boys. Scouse in south. Views my own.
@danicadarley.bsky.social
Mummy who spent time in prison trying to find her way in academia. Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and Lecturing at LTU. Research interests CCE, children in care, lived experience criminology, gendered justice and participatory approaches
@julieedenbarnard.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Community Justice. Former Probation Officer. Areas of research interest are women’s experiences of criminal justice, practitioners experiences of working in criminal justice, reflective practice. All views expressed are my own.
@helencoverdale.bsky.social
Legal & Political Theorist UCL Research interests: Care ethics, prison, penal theory, social justice, ethical AI curious Other interests: hiking, sailing, baking she/her
@bethweaver.bsky.social
Professor of Criminal and Social Justice at University of Strathclyde, Assoc Dir of Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. Spanning Probation, Desistance, Health and AI along with all the things in between.
@ellarabaiotti.bsky.social
Head of Department for Criminology, Sociology & Social Policy, Swansea University | Former Probation Officer | Convenor of Wales Probation Development Group at Wales Centre for Crime & Social Justice https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4179-499X
@bencrewe.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
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@jonbcollins.bsky.social
Chief Executive of Prisoners’ Education Trust and criminal justice nerd.
@fruishfruish.bsky.social
Producer/ Writer working in prisons for 20+ years Kiss My ASBO http://lepusbooks.co.uk/kiss-my-asbo THE SENTENCE @ The British Library. (Via Resonance FM) 1 sentence 46,000 1 syllable words https://m.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-sentence-7-may-2018/
@francispakes.bsky.social
Professor in Criminology. Nordic prison expert and keen runner, dog walker and chess enthusiast
@hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social
Independent inspectorate reporting on conditions for and treatment of those in prisons, young offender institutions and immigration detention facilities. Learn more at: https://hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/
@clockwatcher.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Edinburgh University Director at Flip of the Coin CIC www.flipofthecoin.scot Social science Public health Lived Experience Criminology Director of Policy and Advocacy at Experience for Justice Collective.
@arkluge.bsky.social
phd candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social | formerly @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | he/him interested in stigma, family, gender, mass violence, punishment, abolition, and politics more here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/adam-kluge
@meggeorgiou.bsky.social
Group Head of Quality Improvement, Elysium Healthcare. IHI Improvement Advisor. PhD Candidate in Criminology (University of Surrey) - Researching Mental Illness in Prisons.
@iainbrennan.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology at University of Hull, UK. Violence research and prevention. Institutional Lead for Open Research.
@saulhewish.bsky.social
Participatory arts for prisons & other marginalised groups. Artistic Director of Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation) and p/t Teaching Fellow in Theatre Practice at University of Warwick. My views are my own & not necessarily those of my employers.
@abistark.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at Uni of Central Lancs. Research interests: imprisonment; rights and citizenship of people with convictions; resettlement.
@faithspear.bsky.social
Lead author, The Criminal Justice Blog; prison-reform advocate; criminal-justice system commentator; criminologist thecriminaljusticeblog.com
@cerilh.bsky.social
Solicitor @dpglaw.bsky.social in claims + inquests against the state | prisons | police | immigration Here for law | social justice | migrant rights | feminism | LBGTQ+ | hot takes | photos of pets | no Nazis or cryptobros Usual disclaimers apply
@prisonersed.bsky.social
Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) offers distance learning courses and advice and guidance to people in prison. We use our policy and advocacy work to improve prison education. Support us here: prisonerseducation.org.uk/donate
@jedcpennington.bsky.social
Partner, joint head of public law & human rights, Wilson Solicitors London https://www.wilsonllp.co.uk/our-people/jed-pennington
@drmattcracknell.bsky.social
Criminologist at Brunel university. Interested in prisons, probation, resettlement and short prison sentences.
@nextchapterscotland.org.uk
At Next Chapter Scotland we help people to navigate the stigma and discrimination they can face due to involvement with the criminal justice system (SC052899) www.nextchapterscotland.org.uk 0330 355 7145
@daria-przblsk.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology. Researching women's open prisons in England. Views my own (she/hers)
@eppiesprung.bsky.social
Founder of @nextchapterscotland.org.uk so lots of posts will relate to the criminal justice system and lived experience leadership. Also passionate about birth rights, parenting, literature, music, inclusion, diversity, human rights. Own views etc
@bsky.app
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@forensichope.bsky.social
Forensic Hope Researcher at Durham University (PhD). Aspiring Forensic Hope Psychologist. Prison reform. Associate Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Hope and Resilience at Bucks New University. Author of prison book: Freedom is in the Mind.