Docs and podcasts for my Illicit Markets course
Cultural accounts of illicit markets and criminal activities are the best way to develop a feel for them. Here are…
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….
Doing a PhD? Just read this and it will immediately show you how to do it and make you feel better about yourself
… or possibly it will make you feel very much worse. Not sure. But I think you need to know…
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…
Real dreams of altered states: war, addiction and deep time
Deep time understanding is why Finland now sits atop a network of nuclear bunkers that can house most of the…
