Diseases of affluence, without the affluence
One of the predictions made in global health was that as low/mid income countries became wealthier, their populations would adopt…
The post-user and the digital drug market
The concept of ‘the user’ or ‘person who uses drugs’ is central to how we talk about drug supply and…
When did capitalism stop being any good?
When the whole world has been opened to capital, there is nowhere to expand into. There are no more sources…
It is lucky police AI is crap. What if it worked?
I want to engage with a type of argument that is self-undermining. The months after Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York…
Social construction is an answer to a problem nobody has
One of the annoying things academic competition does is push us to develop elaborate ways of not quite saying what…
Crime’s social facts
…really just one social fact Crime is behaviour that is intentional, measurable and directly harmful. The only reason to care…
Poke-it-with-a-stick methodology
Never ask me ‘do you think this is fence electrified? Are these berries poisonous? Is this knife super-sharp?’ Or somesuch….
Refugees and digital risk
This post is inspired by an invitation from Andreas Hackl to a workshop organised by himself and Margie Cheesman on…
Opioids and fentanyl in the digital supply chain: a material analysis of drug market habitus
This is the draft of a paper I am presenting at the International Forum on Drug Policy, hosted by the…
Swindles of India and the lies we tell students
‘Common Swindles of India’ (Daly, 1931) is an impressionistic criminology where the author gathers together accounts from colonial Indian police…
