🎉Our Ririchan paper is out now🎉 In this article, we examine the celebrification of a fraudster through the case of “Ririchan the Grantee Girl,” whose deployment of kawaii was seen as a survival manual for women navigating neoliberal Japan.
#頂き女子 #りりちゃん #fraud #Japan #Postfeminism #criminology

This is so cool @dr-rsr.bsky.social !!!!!! Garg, D., & Sinha-Roy, R. (2025). The queer affective dimensions of gay dating platform-enabled victimisation in India. Crime, Media, Culture, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1741...

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日時：2025年9月15日（月）10時～17時
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

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New publication alert! Communication with romance fraudsters is often experienced as therapeutic, as it seems to help targets process and overcome challenges encountered throughout their life trajectories—making the emotional pull all the more irresistible. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Knew it...! Sarvan, S., Muslu, L., & Akcan, A. (2025). Do Parent Influencers Neglect or Abuse Their Children? A Document Analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0886...

How about 'Cultural Criminology of Cultural Criminology: Writing Qual Papers As Edgework' Full article: “A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

Interesting.
Abubakari, Y. (2025). Forgiveness-Seeking Behaviors Among Online Romance Fraudsters: Insights from Sakawa Actors in Ghana. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0306...

Just out in the Brit. Jnl. Criminology

#probation #criminology

Please repost! Thanks!

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Coming back to Manchester after three years! With @ydemelius.bsky.social @ceas-fi.bsky.social I am going to discuss vigilante YouTubers in Japan. Starting at 4.30pm!
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Learn more about why modern language degrees at Cardiff University should be saved at www.savecardifflanguages.org

#Languages #SaveCardiffLanguages #CardiffUniversity #Japanese #JapaneseStudies #French #German #Italian #Portuguese #Chinese #Spanish #Translation #TranslationStudies

Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Job Advert - Research Fellow in #AI #Trust and #Security

The Centre for Digital Trust and Society at @official-uom.bsky.social is currently offering three fellowships (up to 3 years) for outstanding postdocs within 4 years of their PhD. Details here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Do remote workers deter neighbourhood crime?

Evidence finds remote working explains significant proportion of the 30% drop in burglary since 2019.

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"Estimating Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing: Methodological Challenges and a Path Forward".
Join us on the 30th of January in Leeds if you're around. I promise the talk will be more engaging and less dense than the abstract might suggest.
#Sentencing; #MetaScience.
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Here I come!