We need to find a way of honouring the dreadful experiences of some victims of crime that is not just imposing weighty punishment on those who have wronged them. Victims need more than such punishment and usually this doesn't help them at all.

Yesterday Adnan left me the first voice notes he's ever left anyone and they are as adorable as you'd expect ("is this on, is this recording, what is this?") and told me he's trying to learn to use an iPhone but that "he's not really liked cell phones since 1998", I DIED 🤣🤣🤣

Congratulations to Dr. Frank Cullen for winning the 2022 DCS Lifetime Achievement Award!!

Does anyone have any good recommendations for a student activity on reasonable suspicion, just cause, etc.? I'm trying to get my students to put themselves in the decision-making role. #AcademicTwitter #teaching #studentlearning #policingactivity

Incarceration didn't fail you. It was never meant to protect you.

Terrorism researchers in Criminology: Come work with a fantastic school in OMAHA! 👇🏻

Same foundations that call themselves progressive will ask non profit organizations to measure success through recidivism rates, as if Black, brown and poor people getting locked up is not primarily a function of government policy: parole, policing, probation, child support, etc.

Please join us this Saturday, November 5th. @Gonzaga & Gonzaga CAS are proud to host a variety of speakers with a lived experience of incarceration who will share ways to create a more social just response to crime. RSVP here: criminologysymposium2022.rsvpify.com #reentry #prisoneducation

I may be a walking red flag, but you cannot deny the quality of the fabric. 🚩

$556,539 per year That’s how much $$$ it costs NYC, per person, to jail someone on Rikers Island in deadly, inhumane conditions, We live in a society that will spend to more money to jail someone than to house, educate, & feed them combined. The cruelty is the point.

If you are outraged that Elizabeth Holmes has a small child and is pregnant and is going to jail, ask yourself: Who do you think populates women’s prisons?

#EndLWOP Great stories & great reporting! No dehumanizing language. Instead real discussions about trauma, healing, transformation, responsibility, & the power of education. Understanding the true causes of crime is how we end #massincarceration #reentry youtu.be/G9h7Lj78RTQ

Outrage over the hiring of neoliberal economist and police apologist Jennifer Doleac to run criminal justice policy at Arnold Ventures is growing. My letter is in the thread.

After what seemed like forever, here is my first solo publication! I examined the motivations for persistent gang involvement among Hmong gang members and reflected on salient cultural and geographic distinctions. 👇👇👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Youth Summit 2023! July 31st - August 1st. Fantastic opportunity at the UW Tacoma to hear from youth currently living in confinement in Washington state. There will be several other #systemimpacted speakers throughout this 2-day event. juvjustice.org/events/confere…. Please

She is a problem. This is what gave birth to mass incarceration 1.0. #ResearchKaren

One of the best people I know…if you think life without parole makes sense, please watch this story. #reentry #reentrymatters #secondchances #prisoneducation #education #trauma #suicide #prison #humanity #transformation kxly.com/news/from-life…

What are we even talking about here?? When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!

Sadly, after 40+ years, Dr. Frank Cullen was FIRED simply to save UC money. In just the past 8 years, he published 148 articles + 7 books, received 34,383 citations, won ASC’s Mentor Award, got $595,567 in grants, advised 13 dissertations, and received high teaching evaluations.

This is how people in prison should be referred to. In my experience, in the United States, most corrections agencies would rather do anything than use language like, ‘the men in our care.’ Prisons do have a responsibility to provide care, not just incapacitate. Language matters.