Rod Earle
@rodearle.bsky.social
Reluctant criminologist, The Open University, convictions my own and others
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Opinion | Could This Unserious, Mischievous, Frightening Man Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Possibly paywalled but well worth a read if you can
Aime Cesaire: “that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it…”
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Aime Cesaire: “that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it…”
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Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
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I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
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October 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests
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Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hello - it's taken a while but we are finally here! The BSC is on Bluesky. We look forward to sharing all the exciting things happening at the BSC: Events, Networks, Newsletters, our 2026 conference, membership opportunities and much more. Please follow us for all things Criminology and CJ!
Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.
October 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Each of the six books listed on this page offer compelling analysis of struggles that will define the 21st century.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read
Convict Criminology on Trial and ‘Writing From the Flesh’: A Review Essay Prompted by Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Bristol University Press
This article is an extended review of Jeffrey Ian Ross's student textbook, ‘Introduction to Convict Criminology’. The review tackles critical issues emerging in convict criminology and the wider live...
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October 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... My review essay on a new book about convict criminology. It’s open access and free to read
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Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press
A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine
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October 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
@pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social
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You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.
There are two overlapping forms of #Racism occurring in this account which plagues so many racialised people in #CriminalJustice settings:
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology
1. The construction of #CJS institutions as white spaces (see E Anderson).
2. The old imposed colonial myths of Black criminality (see P Gilroy)
#criminology
So exhausting..
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You’d expect eloquence from a lawyer, but listening to him he was beyond eloquent.
“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...
Challenging Conceptions of “Borders” and “Race”: Q&A with E. Tendayi Achiume
E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science, comes to the Institute from Stanford Law School. Her research focuses on the international le...
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September 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“my research suggests that borders are more complex, mobile, and attach to different bodies in diverse ways. Their function isn't as simple or legitimate as commonly believed.” www.ias.edu/ideas/challe...
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This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political.
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Love, Class and Empire
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century British History - Love, Class and Empire
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September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This, on late British imperial administrators in Iran & Iraq, looks excellent. Focuses on the intertwining of the personal and the political.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:
We need to be very clear about this.
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism is a threat to us all.
humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...
Rising Christian nationalism: a threat to us all
Scenes on Saturday of Christian preachers denouncing ‘Secular Humanism’ from the main stage of Tommy Robinson’s radical right Unite the Kingdom rally in London may have been surprising to see on the s...
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September 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
UK politics has been restructured over the last few years around anti-trans and anti-immigrant ideas. Not because they’re objectively the most important issues, but because extremist US propagandists have pushed them centre stage. Next on their agenda, religious fundamentalism:
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Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - Morning Live
Join Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton, Michelle Ackerley and the team for conversation, advice and tips to make your day that little bit easier.
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September 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Watching Morning Live on BBC One this morning? You'll see our Dr Sam Murphy on there talking about palliative care and music playlists. If you can't watch it live, if you live in the UK you'll be able to catch it on iPlayer from later today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This is my mid-week gig! All welcome
Join The Mannheim Centre this week to hear @rodearle.bsky.social talk about ‘From the chaotic debris of experience…?’: questions for criminology and criminal justice
📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2
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📅11 June
🕰️5pm start
Find out more here: buff.ly/wH6BBW2
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June 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is my mid-week gig! All welcome
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…
Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with | Samuel Earle
Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle
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June 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the latest from my nephew. As ever, seeing well beyond his years…
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... also written by Joe Sim @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social
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“Claiming stun guns will make prisons safer is perverse. A debate about violence and safety must include state violence against prisoners and the shocking death rate in prisons, up to 399 deaths in the year to March 2025, an increase of 37%.”
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Stun guns won’t bring an end to violence in prisons | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to an article by former prison officer Alex South, in which she says the weapons might keep staff and inmates safe
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April 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Check this out! Essential and timely and Open Access. Building an effective anti racist politics has always been an urgent priority and has never been easy. This really helps manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169662/
Manchester University Press - Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left
Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left by Scarlet Harris
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April 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Check this out! Essential and timely and Open Access. Building an effective anti racist politics has always been an urgent priority and has never been easy. This really helps manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169662/
One of my very favourite versions of a very fine song. Take a listen. Two or three years old now and better every time.
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(Mumma Was A) Bankrobber, by Happy People Records
from the album Perkie & The Co-operators - (Mumma was a) Bankrobber 7"
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April 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
One of my very favourite versions of a very fine song. Take a listen. Two or three years old now and better every time.
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happypeoplerecords1.bandcamp.com/track/mumma-...
Shocked. And saddened to read this. The OU can do better than this.
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The OU’s second-class students: investigation
The Open University provides a lifeline for prisoners seeking to take degree courses, with around 2,000 students behind bars across the UK. However, those hoping to continue learning after release …
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April 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Shocked. And saddened to read this. The OU can do better than this.
insidetime.org/newsround/th...
insidetime.org/newsround/th...
Good news is in short supply but I’d like to congratulate the very wonderful Dr Bill Davies on his promotion to Reader, the best of all academic titles. Bill and I have worked together on convict criminology in the UK since day 1. He is so modest about his achievements.
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good news is in short supply but I’d like to congratulate the very wonderful Dr Bill Davies on his promotion to Reader, the best of all academic titles. Bill and I have worked together on convict criminology in the UK since day 1. He is so modest about his achievements.
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Fab opportunity to work with great people 👇👇👇
3 year Research Fellow post in Historical Criminology based at Sussex. Working with me and @esmoriemiller.bsky.social on Leverhulme funded project Imagining Race, Crime and Justice in Sailortown, 1870-1939. Please repost, send to anyone who might be interested: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/18442578...
Research Fellow in Historical Criminology Ref: 40549 (Fixed term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search
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April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Fab opportunity to work with great people 👇👇👇
Prison and prison ed folk here in UK might be interested in this US newsletter. www.opencampus.org/college-insi...
College Inside - Open Campus
A biweekly newsletter about the intersection of two major systems shaping our society: criminal justice and higher education. Written by Charlotte West, Open Campus staff reporter. Know someone who do...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Prison and prison ed folk here in UK might be interested in this US newsletter. www.opencampus.org/college-insi...