Homicide trends 2003-2018, via @ONSCrimeStats latest release

Long-term trends in violent crime, 1981-2018, via @ONSCrimeStats latest release

Plastic card fraud 2011-2018, via @ONSCrimeStats latest release

Students: studying crime stats and trends? In addition to looking at today's stats release (see previous tweets) you should read this briefing (and follow Gavin Hales)

Want to study an undergraduate degree that looks at real world issues such as poverty, social exclusion and global population change? Take a look at our NEW BSc International Social and Public Policy degree programme LSE Social Policy Study at LSE bit.ly/2JfdZyn

Thinking of a degree in #criminology? Then why not come and study with us at the LSE? New BSc Criminology launching next year (2019/20)

Come work with me SHU HKC LawCrim! jobs.ac.uk/job/BNS552/lec…

The Justice System can’t cope. The CPS can’t cope. Prisons can’t cope. Probation can’t cope. There is a pattern here... theguardian.com/law/2018/oct/2…

BREAKING: Premier League football clubs are to be paired with prisons as part of a groundbreaking scheme to reduce reoffending. Clubs will offer offenders courses in coaching and refereeing to give them skills to help them get jobs when they’re let out.

Join us tonight for @tcguiney 's Mannheim seminar '"Betwixt and Between": The Evolution of Parole as a Public Policy Concern in England and Wales', with a response by Nick Hardwick Location: LSE's New Academic Building (NAB), Room 1.04; doors open at 6pm.

Anyone studying protest and social disorder, you'll almost certainly want to listen to this podcast #protest #riots #ubanviolence

Studying/interested in historical criminology/the history of crime and criminal justice? Check out this new blog site historicalcriminology.com #history #criminology

Interested in surveillance and social control. This afternoon's 'Thinking Allowed' with Laurie Taylor on BBC Radio 4 at 4pm is for you bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00… … (and subsequently in iPlayer) #ThinkingAllowed

Registration now open - British Society of Criminology Conference 2019 - Public Criminologies: Community, Conflict and Justice - 2–5 July 2019 Special rates for unwaged @BSCLincs_19 #criminology Please retweet

#policingethnography Palgrave series in Ethnographies in Policing and Criminology announced Jenny Fleming

Nearly six years ago, a federal judge ruled the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices were racially discriminatory & placed it under a federal monitorship, but despite NYPD’s repeated claims that this is a new era for policing in NYC the same problems persist. ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…

Studying crime, respresentations, media etc? Then you'll want to follows CRIME MEDIA CULTURE Excellent journal with loads of useful stuff for students and teachers

You may want to follow Incarceration too

For all students of crime, justice and punishment. This is always a great resource