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Early in my career I researched smoking in areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland. At the time these were places where the social, economic and physical fabric had…
🎵 In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive 🎵 Projects such as the Clock of the Long Now, the Svalbard Global Seed…
This post is about crime script analysis as a method of bridging micro- and meta- analysis of criminal activity. It lays out what crime script is and how…
Some further thoughts on the long term future of illicit drug markets. 10-15 years ago most people buying drugs would do it from a known contact, arranged by…
The internet has been turned into a disclosing machine. Anonymous communication is rare and difficult to achieve. Digital worlds are characterised by affordances, the technological qualities that enable…
The future has arrived, said William Gibson. It just has not happened to you yet. Count yourself lucky. Participating in discussions on the future of policing gives me…
<img> ‘Motherfuckin’ Critcal Thinking – How does that work?InsaneClownPosse.jpg'</img> A regular comment on students’ work from essays to PhD drafts is that they could improve by adopting a…
One part of the academic skillset I have always thought made you a real academic is the ability to argue in wholly abstract terms. I have no idea…
Social science writing is a set of conventions or styles. These conventions can be used to create distance on the subject, the impression of an objective standpoint, or…
Okay, someone writing a crime script analysis should probably not be saying this but here we go. One of the lightulb moments in teaching sociology is when you…
