Alex Stevens
Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield. Trustee at Criminal Justice Alliance. Volunteer for Visually Impaired Sailing Association and Sheffield Jazz. Peak District walker. Drug policy geek.
- Reposted by Alex StevensThe number of people dying in prisons in England and Wales has risen to the highest level on record, official data reveal. Prisons recorded 394 deaths in 2025 – a 15% increase on the previous year. howardleague.org/news/revealed-the-r…
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- Thanks to Dr James Densley for telling it like it is.
- Reposted by Alex StevensDoors and gates left open. Men spending 23 hours a day in their cells. High levels of self-harm, violence and use of force with batons. Cancelled family visits. Not an encouraging start for England's newest prison: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9z8…
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- Once more, I am shouting into the void: the stupid, off-hand things that Trump says are NOT NEWS. #wato
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- And now we're arguing over a completely meaningless phrase.
- The Jenrick defection is a classic example of a story that the broadcast media will devote hours to, but nobody outside Westminster cares about.
- Just listening to Curtis Mayfield's 'Pusherman' played on BBC Radio 6. They censored the words 'coke', 'weed', and the N word, but not the J word. #drugstigma
- Reposted by Alex Stevens"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a song to be taken on lightly ... but in light of this New Year Trumpian news onslaught, we're sharing this adaptation, called "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - as Trump goes marching on, and dragging us all back to the nineteenth century. youtu.be/8saU0WeocP0
- The UK government should not ban X. It should just stop using it. And so should everyone else.
- Reposted by Alex StevensEvidence from British Columbia shows decriminalisation reduced police interference with access to harm reduction — a key public health objective. Rolling it back didn’t correct failure. It reversed progress. Full study:
- Reposted by Alex StevensTrump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
- The QS world university rankings game is getting ever more ridiculous. I am now getting emails from universities I have never heard of, begging me to big them up.
- Interesting estimate of the number of people in the USA who inject drugs, with substantial fall since 2018. Our estimates in the UK are years out of date.
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- Please can we stop using journal rankings?
- Farage told to apologise for his racism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Alex Stevens"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...
- How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. @deppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... £0 #OA
- Can we crowd fund a defamation case against Farage (and Tice) for calling his accusers liars? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- On #WorldAIDSDay, remember that people are still catching HIV from sharing injecting equipment. And this can be prevented. #HarmReduction
- Comically self-destructive www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Great news for very many families.
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- Reposted by Alex StevensNew: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui. w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
- I was at Nigel Farage's sister school in the 1980s, with several Jewish pupils. Taunting them about the holocaust was not part of our 'banter'.
- Farage is, and always was, a racist.
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- Idea for the next King's Speech: a law that forces rail operators to accept each other's tickets in cases of delays.
- I blame the people who voted for Johnson, especially the Tory MPs who elected him as their leader, despite knowing he was an incompetent liar.
- Fall in opioid deaths in BC is more likely down to a shift from injection to inhalation than policing.
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- Joined the running picked today with @ucu.org.uk @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Oldest (and slowest) there. It takes real #solidarity to run up Sheffield hills to the management school.
- Whatever the charge, the death penalty is wrong. #Bangladesh
- Solidarity on the @ucu.org.uk picked line @sheffielduni.bsky.social School of Law. No to compulsory redundancies!
- Reposted by Alex Stevens📣 Trinity College Dublin is hiring 2 #tenuretrack Assistant Professors in Sociology. 👉 Environmental Sociology. Closing Dec 1 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH703/a... 👉 Gender and Sexuality. Closing Dec 2 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI055/a... @tcdsociology.bsky.social @isa-rc28.bsky.social @eaps.bsky.social
- Reposted by Alex StevensI am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!
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- Will anyone miss PCCs?
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- The BBC scandal inhabits a parallel universe in which it is not absolutely standard practice to edit political speeches to show just the most newsworthy bits.
- What an absolute shower...
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- UK's stupid immigration policy doing as badly as Trump in attracting income and skills from international students.
- Greens and Lib Dems must continue working together to beat the far right threat of Reform.
- NEU: “It is beyond belief that this government’s response to students disengaging in secondary isn’t to consider the impacts on curriculum caused by the tests that already exist in primary but rather is to suggest an additional test in year 8." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Looks like the Tories have belatedly realised that aping the National Front is not a good look.
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