CFP for lawlithum conference to be held at the Uni of Hong Kong is out! I am convenor of the stream 'Empires Debtscapes: Reparations, Decolonisation and Possibilities for Justice'. Submit your abstracts! lawlithum.org/2024-conferenc…

[New Blog 🖊️] Addressing the passage of the Safety of #Rwanda Bill, Dr. Nicola Palmer highlights the grave concern that an increasingly limited notion of 'safety' serves as the sole limitation on First World states displacing their #refugee obligations:
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino…

For those unable to see how our struggles are intertwined, please read this book, which traces the intimate entanglement of colonialism, slavery, racism, liberalism, & capitalism, as well as the philosophical discourses justifying these interlocked systems of domination.

.CPCP Annual Conference 2024: Abolition and/as Activism. Friday May 3, 5PM-8:30 PM & Saturday May 4 10AM-8:30PM at The People's Forum. Honoring Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s contribution--in activism, politics, pedagogy, and theory—to an abolitionist agenda.

Almost 400 bodies discovered in the Nasser Hospital compound.

Executed with their hands tied behind their backs.

20 were buried alive. Women and children were not spared.

But you're not permitted to protest this Gaza Genocide in the West. You have to submit to Zionism.

Thank goodness for Coroners, is all I can say. I'm sure they sometimes get things wrong as well, but they seem to be one of the few branches of the legal system that is actually focused on determining the #truth .

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

As I note, in excellent Charlotte Grieve report, creeping powers of the Minister for Home Affairs could potentially apply to anyone, powers that are hard to wind back. A disturbing erosion of procedural fairness Faculty of Arts UniMelbCriminology Human Rights Law Centre ANZSOC Crimmigration and Border Control Group

#CRIM90015

2024 Prize Call Out: Best Carceral Geography Undergraduate Dissertation. Deadline 12 July 2024.

Universities’ safety, diversity, inclusion statements and policies are officially dead. When state force is your answer to students protesting genocide, you know you’ve lost the battle. Chilling.

[New Blog 🖊️] Addressing the silence on everyday #violence in Greek #mmigrationdetention , Dr. AFili shares her journey creating Detention Landscape, an interactive & open access platform, to systematically document #humanrights violations.

Blog: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino…

Activists head down Bourke St on Naarm/Melbourne to say no to war and militarism from here to Sudan to Gaza

Out now! can't wait to read & use it in my teaching - From the Courtroom to the Boardroom Deena Varner 's analysis of neoliberalism's reach into criminal justice system, through privatisation & its punitive reach into welfare systems.UniMelbCriminology Scarlet Wilcock Dave McDonald

The “Safety of Rwanda” bill was passed by the UK Parliament: both UN Human Rights and UNHCR are very concerned by this decision, which breaches refugee law and won’t help address the challenges of irregular population movements.

Read our joint statement:
unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

This is such a powerful piece exploring the links between prison and homelessness by Paul O’Rourke, Katharina Swirak and Ute Krenzer. A really good example of collaboration Criminology, Cork, Ireland
Rest in peace Paul.

Super talented Kaya Barry's exhibition as part of her 3-year project. Don't miss this event

Another terrific seminar organised by the Australian Critical Border Studies Network team
Sahana Ghosh - A Thousand Tiny Cuts acbsnetwork.wordpress.com/2024/04/16/sah… ANZSOC Crimmigration and Border Control Group Samantha O'Donnell Border Studies

Everyone has swiftly gotten behind lowering the standard of proof in criminal trials to the civil standard of balance of probabilities..until they are falsely accused of something themselves.

[New Event 🗓️] Join us for the online launch of Evgenia Iliadou 's new book, which examines the issue of border harms, everyday violence, abandonment, and human degradation faced by border crossers on Lesvos island, the epicentre of the #refugeecrisis : law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/…

Some excellent commentary on the odious deportation bill ANZSOC Crimmigration and Border Control Group
Border Criminologies
Labor rushing through cruel laws and gagging parliamentary debate? Democracy manifest! | First Dog on the Moon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…