📢 Nominations are open for the 2026 Open Criminology Award!
Recognising outstanding contributions.
🆕 New for 2026:
🏆 ECR Award (€1,500)
🏆 Established Researcher Award (€2,000)*
📅 Deadline: 16 July 2026
🔗 esc-enoc.github.io/open-crim-aw...
#OpenCriminology #OpenScience
*Subject to final agreement.
Our kids would be safer if they'd banned Land Rovers instead of Instagram.
This document describes the terms of reference of the Open Criminology Awards of the European Network for Open Criminology (ENOC)
The top 0.0001% worldwide control wealth equivalent to 17% of the world’s GDP, up from 4% in the mid-1990s www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/b...
Top 0.1% of Americans—135k households—have double the wealth of the bottom 90%—115 million households
We’re sleep walking through an explosion in inequality
‘Fifa has mutated from being a corrupt organisation to a dangerous one that increasingly exists to serve the interests of authoritarians’
Must read with @ncgeehan.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale (also features Packie Bonner’s save against Romania in 1990😬)
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
European Network for Open Criminology
John Munro
Nick McGeehan on Fifa, corruption and the authoritarian capture of the people's game
"I just can't let that go on anymore. So we're giving children their childhood back".
Peter Geoghegan
road violence and the decimation of youth mobility are direct results from this normalized and violent car culture. What our kids (and everyone) face on the streets is completely insane.
Spotted this ad for an F150 trim package. The goal is to be intimidating. They're not even pretending anymore.
Aleesha
Spotted while waiting at a crosswalk. I wonder why I often feel unsafe as a pedestrian?
It can't be said enough that these types of vehicles have no place on our streets, *especially* in dense areas. This kind of truck is incompatible with safety for people trying to walk, bike, or roll.
Claire Freemantle was driving the car that killed Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau outside a school in 2023.
Academics, if you think publication bias is a problem, are depressed about the traditional publication system, and want to contribute to something better, please consider signing up as a recommender for @pci-regreports.bsky.social.
Next #Cars&Crime project.
If I can find the necessary funding...
@clanfear.bsky.social @annabarker.bsky.social
In particular it would be great to see #Crime, #Transport and #UrbanStudies experts. We have a couple of registered reports on those topics in need of reviewers.
