Characterising ‘harm’
At the current moment there is growing concern about the role of digital systems in creating and furthering ‘harm’ across…
In order to disrupt criminal organisations, jail innocent people
One of the ways in which trust is signalled in criminal groups is the fact of having been in prison….
Essay questions on criminal markets and organisations: how do students read them?
Sharing some short and long essay questions from my course on illicit markets and criminal organisations particularly for other teachers…
Dear research student, ask questions of your supervisor to be
A PhD applicant did me the service of sending a list of questions in advance to see if we would…
Using paragraph titles to structure your writing
The aim of this post is to provide a work in progress demo of how using titles for your paragraphs…
Is crime still seductive when it is rationalised? The return of the early modern gang to the crime labour process
Is crime in competition with being law abiding? For rational choice theorists the answer is mostly yes. The decision to…
Dishwashers not vital war industry after all, in one sense
There is a spike in exports of household white goods and consumer electornics to former Soviet Central Asia and the…
Politics and technology is a struggle over seratonin and dopamine
It is difficult to understand the appeal of Ardern, Sturgeon, Trump and Johnson without recognising that politics is about providing…
Writing an academic research review such as a book review or an assessment of a report
A research review is a summary, evaluation and critique of a book or other work, like a report or a…
Methods and epistemic fracture: reviving the information moral economy
The value of social research methods is that it produces independent evidence on the nature of society, social-economic problems and…
