The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control
@europeangroup.bsky.social
Established in Europe but today an international network for academics, practitioners, and activists working towards social justice, state accountability and decarceration. See https://www.european-group.org/
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www.european-group.org/2025/12/09/5... European Group Conference 2026. Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organising for Social Liberation. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1–4 Sept 2026. Join scholars & collectives to build abolitionist alternatives to policing, prisons & capitalism. Deadline--- 23/32026.
www.european-group.org/2025/12/09/5... European Group Conference 2026. Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organising for Social Liberation. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1–4 Sept 2026. Join scholars & collectives to build abolitionist alternatives to policing, prisons & capitalism. Deadline--- 23/32026.
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
www.european-group.org/2025/12/09/5... European Group Conference 2026. Alternatives to Punitive Security Culture: Organising for Social Liberation. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1–4 Sept 2026. Join scholars & collectives to build abolitionist alternatives to policing, prisons & capitalism. Deadline--- 23/32026.
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El próximo 21 de noviembre, en @ateneomaliciosa.net, una jornada importante: Observar la prisión desde dentro
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
El próximo 21 de noviembre, en @ateneomaliciosa.net, una jornada importante: Observar la prisión desde dentro
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Este artículo de @sergonoserg.bsky.social explica formas alternativas de justicia para avanzar hacia una cultura del conflicto que supere la dependencia del sistema penal y experiencias alternativas basadas en la justicia restaurativa y transformativa.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Este artículo de @sergonoserg.bsky.social explica formas alternativas de justicia para avanzar hacia una cultura del conflicto que supere la dependencia del sistema penal y experiencias alternativas basadas en la justicia restaurativa y transformativa.
zonaestrategia.net/apuntes-para...
zonaestrategia.net/apuntes-para...
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4pm Wednesday 26th November, I am presenting at a BSC Historical Criminology seminar on the origins of penal excess. Is it something the British learnt in its empire or something the English had developed before empire?
Online - to register and get the zoom link:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/93...
Online - to register and get the zoom link:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/93...
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
4pm Wednesday 26th November, I am presenting at a BSC Historical Criminology seminar on the origins of penal excess. Is it something the British learnt in its empire or something the English had developed before empire?
Online - to register and get the zoom link:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/93...
Online - to register and get the zoom link:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/93...
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
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November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
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November 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed
www.eventbrite.com/e/ccse-film-...
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New special issue from Justice, Power and Resistance
Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America
Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social
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@europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica
Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America
Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social
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@europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
New special issue from Justice, Power and Resistance
Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America
Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
@europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica
Expanding global conversations: prisons and punishment in Latin America
Guest edited by @fanoavila.bsky.social & @andrewmjefferson.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
@europeangroup.bsky.social #Prisons #LatinAmerica
On November 28–29, 2025, at the Complutense University of Madrid (Somosaguas Campus), the University Network for Palestine (RUxP) will hold the People’s Tribunal on Complicity with the Palestinian Genocide in the Spanish State (TPCGP-25).
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
On November 28–29, 2025, at the Complutense University of Madrid (Somosaguas Campus), the University Network for Palestine (RUxP) will hold the People’s Tribunal on Complicity with the Palestinian Genocide in the Spanish State (TPCGP-25).
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Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social
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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A
Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Everyone agrees. It’s about to explode." Take a look at the book redesign of The Invisible Committee's 2007 breakthrough work: illwill.com/print/the-co... Thanks @illwill.bsky.social !!!!
The Coming Insurrection • Ill Will
Everyone agrees. It's about to explode.
illwill.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"Everyone agrees. It’s about to explode." Take a look at the book redesign of The Invisible Committee's 2007 breakthrough work: illwill.com/print/the-co... Thanks @illwill.bsky.social !!!!
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Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle
lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
Movement Law Under Fascism
As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…
lpeproject.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle
lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
Ecuador: Context of repression and militarisation in the face of protests against extractive industries
@ccccjustice.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social
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@ccccjustice.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social
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Ecuador: Context of repression and militarisation in the face of protests against extractive industries - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
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October 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ecuador: Context of repression and militarisation in the face of protests against extractive industries
@ccccjustice.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social
www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
@ccccjustice.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social
www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...
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✊Miles de personas recorren Madrid para denunciar el genocidio en esta jornada de huelga
📸Manu del Valle
📸Manu del Valle
Directo | Piquetes, detenidos y cortes en carreteras en la jornada de huelga por Palestina
El Salto cubrirá exclusivamente las protestas y la actualidad sobre Palestina y el deficiente acuerdo de alto el fuego impuesto por Estados Unidos en una fecha, la del 15 de octubre, en la que está convocada una huelga general y cientos de protestas.
www.elsaltodiario.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
✊Miles de personas recorren Madrid para denunciar el genocidio en esta jornada de huelga
📸Manu del Valle
📸Manu del Valle
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🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.
Por Mar Sala.
Por Mar Sala.
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🔴Los manifestantes propalestina obligan a retirarse a la Policía Nacional de la madrileña plaza de Neptuno.
Por Mar Sala.
Por Mar Sala.
"Opposition to the construction of a new multimillion-dollar police training facility is most immediately connected to confrontation with policing, corrupted city finances, and antidemocratic municipal processes". www.e-flux.com/journal/143/...
Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform - Journal #143
T. J. Demos on the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.
www.e-flux.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Opposition to the construction of a new multimillion-dollar police training facility is most immediately connected to confrontation with policing, corrupted city finances, and antidemocratic municipal processes". www.e-flux.com/journal/143/...
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Starmer’s United Kingdom
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Starmer’s United Kingdom
The prices are higher. The summers are hotter. The wind is stronger, the wage weaker, and fires kindle more easily. Tornados rove like avenging angels through the cities on the plain. Something has changed. Plagues burn deep in the blood. illwill.com/theory-of-th...
Theory of the Party • Ill Will
Phil A. Neel on the invariant features of communist revolutionary organization.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The prices are higher. The summers are hotter. The wind is stronger, the wage weaker, and fires kindle more easily. Tornados rove like avenging angels through the cities on the plain. Something has changed. Plagues burn deep in the blood. illwill.com/theory-of-th...
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One rule for them and another for everyone else.
In this new blog Justice, Power and Resistance author Trancey Davanna discusses the 'criminal justice' response to #FoxHunting
#HuntingKills @europeangroup.bsky.social
In this new blog Justice, Power and Resistance author Trancey Davanna discusses the 'criminal justice' response to #FoxHunting
#HuntingKills @europeangroup.bsky.social
Tracey Davanna discusses how The Hunt Saboteurs Association exposes the violence, privilege, and state complicity surrounding illegal #FoxHunting, highlighting how direct action is often the only means of holding powerful rural elites to account: buff.ly/ybi37f8
How fox hunting demonstrates the ‘farcical’ nature of criminal justice today - Transforming Society
Tracey Davanna, co-editor of 'Policing in Crisis?', discusses how The Hunt Saboteurs Association exposes the violence, privilege, and state complicity surrounding illegal fox hunting, highlighting…
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
One rule for them and another for everyone else.
In this new blog Justice, Power and Resistance author Trancey Davanna discusses the 'criminal justice' response to #FoxHunting
#HuntingKills @europeangroup.bsky.social
In this new blog Justice, Power and Resistance author Trancey Davanna discusses the 'criminal justice' response to #FoxHunting
#HuntingKills @europeangroup.bsky.social
english.elpais.com/internationa.... Athletes, artists, academics: all workers are called to stand in solidarity against the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of its people, in every classroom, on every stage, and in every workplace.”
Madrid turns final stage of Vuelta cycling race into a demonstration against Israel
‘It shows it’s possible to force our governments to completely sever relations with Israel,’ said organizers. Authorities estimate that over 100,000 people showed up
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September 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
english.elpais.com/internationa.... Athletes, artists, academics: all workers are called to stand in solidarity against the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of its people, in every classroom, on every stage, and in every workplace.”
Extending colonialism: extrajudicial killings, torture & enforced disappearances perpetrated by Indonesian security forces in which British investors & British companies are intensely implicated ...
@statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social
Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua.
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
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Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Extending colonialism: extrajudicial killings, torture & enforced disappearances perpetrated by Indonesian security forces in which British investors & British companies are intensely implicated ...
@statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social
@statecrime.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @stevetombs.bsky.social
Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people
| Decolonization of Criminology and Justice
ojs.aut.ac.nz
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...
This week we recommend: "No mine in Gállok: Ecocide and colonialism in Swedish-occupied Sápmi". A book about "the questionable promises of a so-called Green Transition based on colonial land grabbing and environmental degradation, and issues related to the nature of capitalist civilization..." Link👇
September 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This week we recommend: "No mine in Gállok: Ecocide and colonialism in Swedish-occupied Sápmi". A book about "the questionable promises of a so-called Green Transition based on colonial land grabbing and environmental degradation, and issues related to the nature of capitalist civilization..." Link👇
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My latest is “Strategies of Invisibility (For Repressive Times)” You can get in English, Spanish and French right here: thefunambulist.net/.../strategi... . And check out @thefunambulist.bsky.social for discovering amazing thinkers and artists pushing our horizons of political possibility.
August 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My latest is “Strategies of Invisibility (For Repressive Times)” You can get in English, Spanish and French right here: thefunambulist.net/.../strategi... . And check out @thefunambulist.bsky.social for discovering amazing thinkers and artists pushing our horizons of political possibility.