Megan McElhone
@meganmcelhone.bsky.social
Researching policing & race at Monash University. نصر
My review of @melaynakay.bsky.social’s A Philosophical History of Police Power. This book makes important contributions to several bodies of literature, and communicates complex arguments very clearly. Well worth reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book Review: A Philosophical History of Police Power by MELAYNA KAY LAMB - Megan McElhone, 2025
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July 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My review of @melaynakay.bsky.social’s A Philosophical History of Police Power. This book makes important contributions to several bodies of literature, and communicates complex arguments very clearly. Well worth reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do not miss the event of the year!!!!! What a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Tanya, who is not just a brilliant scholar but a brilliant friend ❤️
This is next Thursday (10th April). It will be hybrid but would be lovely to see people in person and have some wine and snacks after!
Professor Tanya Serisier's Inaugural Lecture - Speaking Out About Sexual Violence: Researching Public Survivors Before and After MeToo
Inaugural Lecture series 2025
www.bbk.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Do not miss the event of the year!!!!! What a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Tanya, who is not just a brilliant scholar but a brilliant friend ❤️
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
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Creative Australia ditching Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the Venice Biennale is an extraordinary denial of artistic freedom by our supposedly leading & independent arts advocate.
A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.
A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.
February 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Creative Australia ditching Khaled Sabsabi as our representative at the Venice Biennale is an extraordinary denial of artistic freedom by our supposedly leading & independent arts advocate.
A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.
A week ago Sabsabi said he thought the honour "wouldn’t happen because of who I am.” Turns out he was right.
I was on Triple J Hack yesterday to speak about the Sam Kerr verdict -- thanks to Dave and the team for having me!
www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
FULL SHOW: Sam Kerr cleared, the HECS/home loan conundrum + surfing's climate threat - triple j
Sam Kerr was found not guilty of racially harassing a police officer. How did we get here and what does it mean for the future of her Matildas captaincy?
And the government wants to stop your HECS-HE...
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I was on Triple J Hack yesterday to speak about the Sam Kerr verdict -- thanks to Dave and the team for having me!
www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
www.abc.net.au/triplej/prog...
My new article for The Conversation.
The fallout from Sam Kerr’s UK court case, for racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, could have far-reaching ramifications.
Sam Kerr verdict: what it means for law in the UK and the star athlete’s soccer career
theconversation.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My new article for The Conversation.
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If prison beds are built, they will be filled...
Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge
Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge
Research shows 37 new prisons have been built in Australia since 2000. But the evidence shows increased incarceration doesn’t help reduce crime.
Prisons don’t create safer communities, so why is Australia spending billions on building them?
theconversation.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If prison beds are built, they will be filled...
Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge
Amplifying calls to stop prison expansion and build real community safety through alleviating structural inequalities, with @blatmannaama.bsky.social @drnatosborne.bsky.social @francismarkham.work and Andrew Burridge
We Lebs have transcended race! Incredible. I’m still not eating devon, though
Opinion | "My Asian, African and Aboriginal ABC colleagues are now on notice: complain about something to do with your race and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility the ABC will ask you to prove you have a race in the first place." @janfran.bsky.social
Read it: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/04/a...
Read it: www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/04/a...
February 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We Lebs have transcended race! Incredible. I’m still not eating devon, though
I'm flattered that my article 'Gangland and Task Force Gain' received the Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology's Early Career Award this year — thanks to the selection committee for their consideration! I'm indebted to everyone who provided feedback on drafts 🙏
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December 11, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I'm flattered that my article 'Gangland and Task Force Gain' received the Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology's Early Career Award this year — thanks to the selection committee for their consideration! I'm indebted to everyone who provided feedback on drafts 🙏
anzsoc.org/anzosc-2024-...
anzsoc.org/anzosc-2024-...
This month I am leaving Birkbeck after 5 years. I’ll be forever grateful to my brilliant colleagues & students, and I’ll miss them. But I’m also buzzing to be joining Monash Criminology/Social Sciences in January. I’ve received a really warm welcome & I’m looking forward to becoming part of the team
December 10, 2024 at 9:58 AM
This month I am leaving Birkbeck after 5 years. I’ll be forever grateful to my brilliant colleagues & students, and I’ll miss them. But I’m also buzzing to be joining Monash Criminology/Social Sciences in January. I’ve received a really warm welcome & I’m looking forward to becoming part of the team
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The
@BBCiPlayer
is live-streaming the evidence from arch manipulator #BobLambert the #spycops inquiry today. Tune in here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@BBCiPlayer
is live-streaming the evidence from arch manipulator #BobLambert the #spycops inquiry today. Tune in here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Undercover Policing Inquiry
Officially set up in 2015, the inquiry is looking into serious allegations of systematic abuses by undercover policing units developed over 40 years
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 3:18 PM
The
@BBCiPlayer
is live-streaming the evidence from arch manipulator #BobLambert the #spycops inquiry today. Tune in here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@BBCiPlayer
is live-streaming the evidence from arch manipulator #BobLambert the #spycops inquiry today. Tune in here:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
ICYMI: compelling new StopWatch report arguing for the repeal of Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. Section 60 empowers police to conduct ‘suspicionless’ stops and searches.
Extra points for a clever title.
www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...
Extra points for a clever title.
www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...
No reasonable grounds: the case for repealing section 60
Report argues for scrapping the controversial search power on human rights grounds
www.stop-watch.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:17 PM
ICYMI: compelling new StopWatch report arguing for the repeal of Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. Section 60 empowers police to conduct ‘suspicionless’ stops and searches.
Extra points for a clever title.
www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...
Extra points for a clever title.
www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...
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Give him whatever he wants.
WHATEVER.
HE.
WANTS.
WHATEVER.
HE.
WANTS.
November 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Give him whatever he wants.
WHATEVER.
HE.
WANTS.
WHATEVER.
HE.
WANTS.
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November 20, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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A bumper day of court cases involving Metropolitan Police officers.
First, an Ilford PC accused of inflicting life-changing injuries on a man who was Tasered and fell off a shed roof.
Pleads not guilty to causing GBH, case sent for trial
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
First, an Ilford PC accused of inflicting life-changing injuries on a man who was Tasered and fell off a shed roof.
Pleads not guilty to causing GBH, case sent for trial
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
Met Police officer pleads not guilty over serious injuries to tasered suspect
PC Liam Newman is accused of inflicting serious injuries on a man after tasering him
www.standard.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 11:00 AM
A bumper day of court cases involving Metropolitan Police officers.
First, an Ilford PC accused of inflicting life-changing injuries on a man who was Tasered and fell off a shed roof.
Pleads not guilty to causing GBH, case sent for trial
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
First, an Ilford PC accused of inflicting life-changing injuries on a man who was Tasered and fell off a shed roof.
Pleads not guilty to causing GBH, case sent for trial
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...
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This has been a vital message Netpol has promoted vigorously on the other place: blue bibbed "police liaison officers" at protests are intelligence gatherers, you do not need to speak to them, so don't
November 20, 2024 at 10:13 AM
This has been a vital message Netpol has promoted vigorously on the other place: blue bibbed "police liaison officers" at protests are intelligence gatherers, you do not need to speak to them, so don't
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Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch...
The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
November 19, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch...
The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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So I didn't get the starter pack memo and made a list of people doing Criminology, which you can use as a feed. It keeps growing. If you should be on it, let me know.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#Criminology
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#Criminology
November 12, 2024 at 8:08 PM
So I didn't get the starter pack memo and made a list of people doing Criminology, which you can use as a feed. It keeps growing. If you should be on it, let me know.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#Criminology
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#Criminology
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Trying to foster connections between emerging, early career, and senior policing scholars! Open to all fields — please share and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc
go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc
November 16, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Trying to foster connections between emerging, early career, and senior policing scholars! Open to all fields — please share and let me know if you would like to be added!
go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc
go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc
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Petition against the University of London injunction against protests in support of BDS | change.org/p/university...
November 14, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Petition against the University of London injunction against protests in support of BDS | change.org/p/university...
Thoroughly enjoying reading this. Currently writing a review for Social & Legal Studies. In short: strongly recommend!
November 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Thoroughly enjoying reading this. Currently writing a review for Social & Legal Studies. In short: strongly recommend!