In collaboration with Frederik Rom Taxhjelm and Incarceration, I'm really excited to call for abstracts for a themed issue: 'Exceptional forms of coercive confinement – Pockets of punitiveness in the Welfare State'. Deadline for abstracts: 1st of May 2024.

Catch up on our latest Expert Voices event where our associate
Russell Webster ✍️ & experts Jake Phillips & Nicola Carr explored what makes a good community sentence, offering perspectives from probation officers & the people they supervise.

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🎓🌟 Exciting Announcement: European Society of Criminology’s Community Sanctions and Measures Working Group Annual Meeting 🌟🎓
🗓️ Dates: 15 – 16 April 2024
📍 Location: University of Leiden
📧 Information: bit.ly/3Tvly8v. #CommunitySanctions
Jake Phillips

PLS RT: Call for chapters for the Routledge Handbook of Wellness in Criminal Justice.

We're seeking chapters that explore wellbeing in the context of the police, courts, sentencing, corrections, victims and communities.

Deadline: 1 April
Submit: forms.gle/pHX46eZhzAB4U9…

New issue of Probation Quarterly is out today with loads of articles covering policy and research as well as a themed section all about probation in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Free to download via the link below.

📢📢ECR Board Member Opportunity! The Journal of Criminology is now calling for expressions of interest from early career researchers who would like to join our Editorial Board. EOIs close 12 April 2024. All info here shorturl.at/clDU6

You know you’ve got good colleagues when this is what they get you in exchange for doing them a favour!! Thanks Nichola Cadet !

Inspiring event at House of Lords y’day on probation hosted by David Blunkett. Resonant insights re: values-based probation, importance of hope & meaningful relationships. Crucial work after decade+ of probation shenanigans. Thank you Jake Phillips Steve, Kam, Ferdy, Rita & all

What makes a good community sentence?

Join us 7th March 12.30-13.30 for our next Expert Voices event with our associate Russell Webster ✍️ & experts Jake Phillips & Nicola Carr who will offer perspectives from probation officers & the people they supervise.

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Delighted to be delivering an online lecture, entitled ‘The Youth Justice Paradox: Young Lives in the Shadows of Slovenian Penal Exceptionalism’ on Wed 28 Feb 2024 at 4pm (5pm CET) at the University of Edinburgh’s Crime, Justice and Society Seminars.
Please register here: law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

Nothing says spring is on the way more than blackthorn blossom and new hawthorn leaves 🍃

Surprisingly little has been written on Community Justice, broadly defined, in Scotland. This CALL FOR PAPERS - for an open access special issue of British Journal of Community Justice on Community Justice in Scotland seeks to change that. Abstract Deadline : 2 April 2024.
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A great PhD funded PhD opportunity to explore aspect of probation practice with Dr Matt Tidmarsh Jake Phillips and Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 👇👇👇

Fancy doing a PhD on peoples' experiences of probation & desistance in the context an Activity Hub? See below for a funded PhD on exactly that topic!

Supervised by Dr Matt Tidmarsh Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 & me, you'd be registered at the University of Leeds and spend time working in HMPPS

Will be really interesting to see how things develop in relation to probation in Wales. As Su McConnel says, there are some real opportunities for change in the context of a devolved Welsh system.

Looking forward to talking about what makes for a good community sentence, drawing on some of our research on the concept of hope in probation at this event in March. See below for more details and sign up info.

Vincenzo Ruggiero's ever timely 2023 article 'Criminology Against War' is now free access on European Group journal Justice, Power and Resistance

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PLS RT: Call for research participants

We are doing some research on remote and in-person oral hearings and want to capture as many views as possible.

If you have something to say about parole oral hearings we'd like to hear from you. See the image for more details.

📢Call for chapters!📢 Jake, Rose & I seek abstracts for the #Routledge Handbook of Wellness in Criminal Justice. Chapters can be empirical, theoretical or creative & written by academics, clinicians &/or ppl with lived experience. Pls consider submitting: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Great opportunity to contribute to an important book…