I have no idea how to argue abstractly
One part of the academic skillset I have always thought made you a real academic is the ability to argue…
Writing tips
Social science writing is a set of conventions or styles. These conventions can be used to create distance on the…
All the world is not a stage and life is not a performance
Okay, someone writing a crime script analysis should probably not be saying this but here we go. One of the…
The fundamental laws of crime and why I’m not a critical sociologist
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash This post was inspired by reading David Buil-Gil and Patricia Saldaña-Taboada’s article cited below….
What’s on my dekstop
The best software is accessible, extensible and community supported. However because reasons we tend to end up with tools that…
The material matrix and the illicit biosocial economy
The end of European empires contributed to the rise of methodological nationalism. That is the set of infrastructures and habits…
Illicit markets as ontological and epistemological technologies
There’s been much referencing to techno-social hybrids and as with anything else the term can lose its specificity as it…
Drug dealing as multi-level marketing scheme
‘I just got out of prison and asked my sister how much it would cost to start a business. She…
Doodling theory
As part of the textbook ‘Dead White Men and Other Important People’, authored with my great PHD supervisor Ralph Fevre,…
Ask not ‘what is my PhD about?’ ask ‘Why am I doing this PhD?’
I wrote this because one of the most persistent and grief inducing questions I ask in supervisions is ‘what is…
