Vickie Barrett
@vickiebarrett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Huddersfield University.
ADR UK Research Fellow.
Interested in punitiveness (CJS, education, welfare), policy, school exclusions and offending.
Ex-probation officer and school teacher.
Views my own
ADR UK Research Fellow.
Interested in punitiveness (CJS, education, welfare), policy, school exclusions and offending.
Ex-probation officer and school teacher.
Views my own
Pinned
Vickie Barrett
@vickiebarrett.bsky.social
· Feb 11
The pathways of excluded school pupils into (and out of) the criminal justice system
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Vickie Barrett explores the complex pathways of excluded school pupils and their interactions with the criminal justi...
www.adruk.org
A short blog about my research exploring the relationship between school exclusions and offending
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If you’re an academic criminologist who doesn’t automatically make all your work #OpenAccess, please take 10 minutes to read this short article by Scott Jacques on why you absolutely should be:
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
Making your articles open access: Opportunities and choices
Open access (OA) is criminology’s future. It makes our field more scientific, impactful, and equitable. Any output can be OA: articles and books, data and code, syllabi and lectures, basically…
doi.org
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you’re an academic criminologist who doesn’t automatically make all your work #OpenAccess, please take 10 minutes to read this short article by Scott Jacques on why you absolutely should be:
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
doi.org/10.21428/cb6...
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📌 Call for interview participants 📌
We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.
We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.
June 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
📌 Call for interview participants 📌
We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.
We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.
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Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
June 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Do you want to join a friendly team of criminologists? @oxfordcrim.bsky.social is looking to appoint a 16 month Departmental Lecturer in Criminology from 1st September. Application deadline is midday on Monday 23rd June. Details can be found here:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...
I am conducting a study of probation practitioner wellbeing. So if you are a probation practitioner in England and Wales, or know others that are, please consider completing the survey (and sharing it) below.
Many thanks.
huddersfieldbss.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Many thanks.
huddersfieldbss.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I am conducting a study of probation practitioner wellbeing. So if you are a probation practitioner in England and Wales, or know others that are, please consider completing the survey (and sharing it) below.
Many thanks.
huddersfieldbss.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Many thanks.
huddersfieldbss.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Today, YEF publishes our "Education Policy, Children and Violence" report. 8 affordable, deliverable policy, inspection and regulation changes that will reduce violence. Full report here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ... Summary below 👇
Education Policy, Children and Violence | Youth Endowment Fund
Our Education Policy, Children and Violence guidance, provides education policymakers across England and Wales with eight recommendations on how to prevent children’s involvement in violence. Recommen...
youthendowmentfund.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Today, YEF publishes our "Education Policy, Children and Violence" report. 8 affordable, deliverable policy, inspection and regulation changes that will reduce violence. Full report here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ... Summary below 👇
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The BJC have just published this review symposium of our book "The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice
Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below!
#AcademicSky #Criminology
doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below!
#AcademicSky #Criminology
doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right
The life course paradigm brought a focus on continuity and change in offending across the entire life span to criminology. Early research evolved to captur
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March 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The BJC have just published this review symposium of our book "The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice
Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below!
#AcademicSky #Criminology
doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right" (which won the ASC's DDLCC 2024 book award). Link below!
#AcademicSky #Criminology
doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...
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Just out! If you’re into #criminology , #lifecourse & linking individual lives with macro-structures, this might be for you!
We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example.
#AcademicSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example.
#AcademicSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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March 16, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Just out! If you’re into #criminology , #lifecourse & linking individual lives with macro-structures, this might be for you!
We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example.
#AcademicSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
We outline an approach for linking macro-level policies with individual lifecourses using #Thatcherism as an example.
#AcademicSky
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The long-awaited evaluation of Project ADDER is now out, and makes fascinating reading for all with a concern for illicit drug problems in England and Wales. A thread: 1/? ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-adder-impact-evaluation/project-adder-impact-evaluation#key-findings
Project ADDER: Impact evaluation
www.gov.uk
February 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The long-awaited evaluation of Project ADDER is now out, and makes fascinating reading for all with a concern for illicit drug problems in England and Wales. A thread: 1/? ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-adder-impact-evaluation/project-adder-impact-evaluation#key-findings
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EVENT: What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services?
Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...
Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...
February 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
EVENT: What lessons can government learn from the insourcing of probation services?
Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...
Join us on Monday 17 March as we explore the impact of the Probation Service with @harryannison.bsky.social, Helen Berresford, @samfr.bsky.social, Martin Jones CBE www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/lesson...
A short blog about my research exploring the relationship between school exclusions and offending
The pathways of excluded school pupils into (and out of) the criminal justice system
In this blog, ADR UK Research Fellow Dr Vickie Barrett explores the complex pathways of excluded school pupils and their interactions with the criminal justi...
www.adruk.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
A short blog about my research exploring the relationship between school exclusions and offending
Fantastic opportunity to do a fascinating PhD with 2 brilliant and supportive supervisors
Was a better time to examine the complicated relationship between crime, politics & punishment? Please look & share this studentship, based at the vibrant & friendly @sociowarwick.bsky.social with @stephenfarrall.bsky.social using British Cohort Data (@clscohorts.bsky.social ). Questions welcome.
PhD Studentship: Crime, Punishment, and Politics Across Generations – A Multi-Cohort Study in the UK ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Discover a PhD Studentship: PhD Studentship: Crime, Punishment, and Politics Across Generations – A Multi-Cohort Study in the UK ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship Explore more PhD opportunities and...
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fantastic opportunity to do a fascinating PhD with 2 brilliant and supportive supervisors
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I’m looking to appoint two PhD students for two funded projects exploring the intersection of #DigitalTechnologies, #AI and #FinancialCrime.
We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.
We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.
January 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I’m looking to appoint two PhD students for two funded projects exploring the intersection of #DigitalTechnologies, #AI and #FinancialCrime.
We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.
We’re looking for candidates with socio-technical backgrounds e.g. with expertise in #socialscience and #computerscience. Further details below.
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged.
Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology
doi.org/10.1027/2151...
Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged.
Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology
doi.org/10.1027/2151...
Personality and Crime: A Topical Issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie: Zeitschrift für Psychologie: Vol 0, No 0
doi.org
December 17, 2024 at 5:47 AM
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged.
Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology
doi.org/10.1027/2151...
Explore links between personality & crime! Isa Thielmann and Ingo Zettler are looking for research on how traits like impulsivity & empathy relate to criminal behavior. Interdisciplinary & open science encouraged.
Submit now! #Criminology #Psychology
doi.org/10.1027/2151...
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Im MDR aktuell Podcast konnte ich über Kriminalität und Kriminalitätswahrnehmung in Deutschland sprechen: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
Die verunsicherte Gesellschaft: Nehmen wir Kriminalität verzerrt wahr? | MDR.DE
Nach den Attacken in Solingen und Mannheim haben viele Menschen das Gefühl, Deutschland sei unsicherer geworden. Dabei zeigen Statistiken etwas anderes. Woher kommt die Diskrepanz? Dazu Sozialpsycholo...
www.mdr.de
December 9, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Im MDR aktuell Podcast konnte ich über Kriminalität und Kriminalitätswahrnehmung in Deutschland sprechen: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
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Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions.
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Since many researchers are here now, I want to draw attention to a publishing opportunity. Special issue of the Sage journal, Inquiry, focused on violence prevention strategies that leverage community-level mechanisms. Deadline is Jan 11 & I can answer questions.
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
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For non-UK academics out there, here is a list of UK universities making job/degree programme cuts.
I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:05 PM
For non-UK academics out there, here is a list of UK universities making job/degree programme cuts.
I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
I predict that this will get worse after Xmas, as the numbers of this year's UG intake start to stabilise. Some big names are in a lot of trouble. It is going to get worse.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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Come and do a PhD supervised by me! (or my Royal Holloway colleagues) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW355/p...
PhD Studentship in Law at Royal Holloway, University of London
Explore a PhD Studentship in Law. Apply today and discover more PhD opportunities at jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Come and do a PhD supervised by me! (or my Royal Holloway colleagues) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW355/p...
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Reminder - call for papers closing tomorrow - The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University.
The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm
www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...
The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm
www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...
Probation and Community Justice Network – British Society of Criminology
www.britsoccrim.org
November 28, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Reminder - call for papers closing tomorrow - The British Criminology Society Probation & Community Justice Network is holding its 1st Annual Conference, 14 Jan 2025, Sheffield Hallam University.
The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm
www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...
The call for papers deadline is 29 Nov 2024 5pm
www.britsoccrim.org/probation-an...
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Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
The art of Teaching About Violence
Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal? · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Curious about teaching on atrocity and the issues it raises in the seminar room?
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
Annalisa Battista & I are in conversation here with @alettesmeulers.bsky.social and Nicola Quaedvlieg on just that topic.
open.spotify.com/episode/4luP... (and other services)
#Criminology #Atrocity #Pedagogy
1/2
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📢 New policy insights “How to Halve Violence Against Women and Girls”. Essential reading for policymakers and researchers. @profdavidgadd.bsky.social, Dr Caroline Miles, Prof Barry Godfrey.
Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry...
#VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology
Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry...
#VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology
Barry Godfrey
blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk
November 25, 2024 at 2:02 PM
📢 New policy insights “How to Halve Violence Against Women and Girls”. Essential reading for policymakers and researchers. @profdavidgadd.bsky.social, Dr Caroline Miles, Prof Barry Godfrey.
Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry...
#VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology
Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry...
#VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology
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For my first post in this new world, I am pleased to share a paper just published in Theoretical Criminology - Beyond 'police discretion'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 25, 2024 at 3:07 PM
For my first post in this new world, I am pleased to share a paper just published in Theoretical Criminology - Beyond 'police discretion'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice.
I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us.
I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...
I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us.
I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...
Liverpool 2023 Prisons Week Lecture: Dr Shona Minson – Changemakers
YouTube video by Liverpool Cathedral
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice.
I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us.
I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...
I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us.
I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...
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New from @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social, Rosie Shorrocks and me on the gender gap at the 2024 UK GE. We find that the gender gap looked different at this election, shifting from a Lab/Con gap to a broader left-right gap.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in wo...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:54 AM
New from @profrosiecamp.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social, Rosie Shorrocks and me on the gender gap at the 2024 UK GE. We find that the gender gap looked different at this election, shifting from a Lab/Con gap to a broader left-right gap.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....