The north of Scotland has some challenging but extremely clean toilets

Thanks to SCCJR and SIPR for organising this important event to provoke discussions about race, racism and policing in Scotland. Please come if you can and help shape the direction of future debate, research, practice, policy…

Look forward to speaking alongside Smina Akhtar PhD 🇵🇸- Black Lives Matter Harshad Keval. #FreePalestine #BlackLivesMatter + Anna Souhami at this SCCJR and SIPR in-person meeting on 'Race, racism and policing in Scotland: Challenges & Directions for Research'. 25 Jan 2024 14:00 - 16:30 GMT 👇🏾 eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-racism-… Includes

Our special issues in Policing and Society will soon be published as a collection. Matthew Bacon @pkquinton Dr Karen Lumsden 📚The Qualitative Researcher Thomas Friis Søgaard Dr Melissa Jardine Dr Sarah Charman Tessa Diphoorn Anna Souhami #ethnography #policing

Blimey! This is so exciting. Especially as the last thing I won was a triumphant game of musical chairs at my friend Kelly’s birthday party age 5 and this time I wasn’t even sick on the way home. Many thanks to the European Society of Criminology policing folk. I’m thrilled.

For folks off to Eurocrim: I hope you can join this really exciting discussion about the relationship between place, security and vulnerability. I'll be talking about islands, remoteness, the sea and the sky. See you there!

British criminology comes back to Scotland at last - and there could be no better hosts than our brilliant friends at Strathclyde. Hope to see you all there!

If you'd like to know more about why criminologists should think about darkness- and light, and the weather - I've written about it here. Includes tales of fog, moonlight, sunsets and aggressive sheep, and why they matter for the exercise of state power. academic.oup.com/bjc/article/63…

A blog post, about being afraid of the dark. Includes discussion of: why you should never let your dog off the lead in the Shetland winter, and why one island police station has this pinned to their front office:

Colin is right.

An absolute treat of a post coming Monday next from Anna Souhami on what the #sensory experience of darkness can tell us about #policing in remote places. Lose some time getting inspiration from the archive in the meantime: sensorycriminology.com

Cannot wait to see if this gets to the real stuff of island policing e.g. 1. theft of bees 2. public urination by a man dressed as a badger 3. getting stranded in fog/ storms/ mud 4. whistling at seals

*SEMINAR POSTPONED* A perfect illustration of the challenges of remote island criminal justice! High winds have stranded Aman in the Western Isles and left Christine with wobbly internet in Shetland, so our seminar will be rearranged for a calmer day in January. Details to follow

I’m really looking forward to this great event RuralSocialWorkScotland where we will talk about fog, darkness, gossip, organising your entire life according to ferry timetables, and why remote islands should be at the heart of thinking about criminal justice social work.

We will be bringing you exciting, evocative and thought-provoking stuff when we return in September, from the great Lizzie Hughes Birkbeck Criminology, the always invigorating Anna Souhami and possibly one or two from our wonderful #EthCrim5 participants so watch this space!

Shetland, 4am (sound on)