James Tangen

And I think I'm done with this site. If you know me, you know why. Find me on the other side, where the sky is... well, you get the drift.

Great to see so many friends and colleagues at the 1st Annual Conference of @BSC_PCJ It's a packed agenda with some really interesting and important research about where #probation is currently and where we want to see it go in the future.

Best shoutout by amazing colleague @phat_controller! I hope you like #UnfairID and simply can’t wait to discuss it with you when I see you next! 📕💛

I am immensely proud of this work! I hope it goes some way to challenge perceptions of people with criminal records, and to encourage conversation on how we can create a fairer and more inclusive society. Thank you to everyone who took part, and @unlockcharity for your support.

This event seeks to advance the Network’s aim to critically examine & stimulate debate about #communityjustice #research & provide a platform to promote academic contributions and interventions to contemporary debates about #probation & community justice.

BSC Probation & Community Justice Network 1st Annual Conference: Where next for Probation and community justice? Tuesday 14 January 2025 @sheffhallamuni #CfP Deadline: 5pm, Friday 29 November 2024 PGR & ECR proposals particularly welcome #ECRChat #PhD tinyurl.com/yapb2zu2

@Burnt2020 @RobLaurensonD4P @AoMRC Independent of whom? Appointed by whom?

@RobLaurensonD4P @AoMRC I'm looking forward to seeing what any independent review says about PAs with no formal education, training, assessments, or exams can replace SpRs in subspecialties who have all of those things. You either need them or you don't, so lets see what truly independent people say

On the same day @AoMRC say that the degree of the discourse being based on sound evidence is unclear. You couldn't make it up. They think it's all a storm in a teacup. There remains a disconnect of information & trust from those on the ground and those in leadership roles.

@BramhamAlex @tkknowles9 @ginamartinuk Have you heard of cognitive-behavioural psychology at all? It's gonna blow your mind.

@tkknowles9 @ginamartinuk Thinking is thinking. Violence is violence. The distinction is unambiguous.

The man who procured at least 72 men to rape his unconscious wife is linked to The man who set his girlfriend on fire, who is linked to The man filmed a woman being raped in Pradesh, who is linked to The millions that watched it, who are linked to The guy who killed his ex with a machete, who is linked to The boy who stabbed little girls in Southport, who is linked to The teacher who was found to be abusing his students, who is linked to The man who proposed to his daughter on TikTok with a purity ring, who is linked to The man who makes sexist jokes to his mates after beers, who is linked to The kid who follows misogyny influencers, who is linked to The mother who says “boys will be boys”, who is linked to The teacher who brushes off the boys sexist teasing, who is linked to You, reading this tweet thinking this is nothing to do with you because you don’t commit violence and you’re sure you’ve got no internalised misogyny. All of it’s connected, you just don’t understand how.

@AnnieSnowden @UoNSociology @UoNSocialSci @james_tangen @alisongardner12 @ma_jovanovic @slaveryPEC @Uni_of_Essex @EssexLawSchool @EssexHRC @WilberforceHull @AliciaHeys

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors" "To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society better in many ways" "What's going on is specific to these crowds.. Crowd psychology is there when people are cleaning up the streets as well as attacking the streets.. The difference is one group has an ideology of hate and violence, another has a vision of community and solidarity" "Most people are pro immigration.. The irony is that over recent years attitudes towards immigration has become more positive.. People see immigrants as a boom rather than as a menace to the country.. Britain is one of the more liberal countries" "If we didn't have migrants then our care service would fall apart, our NHS would fall apart.. It's important not to highlight the negative exceptions, but to show that most people are pro migrants"

@jimbrownblog However, as a newly minted SPO I attended a public meeting for the local CSP. The ChSupt was asked about police performance on public protection, his reply: "we aren't measured on that, only probation has those kind of metrics". Funny how that doesn't match public perception.

@jimbrownblog When I was a PO we tried to protect the public by reducing reoffending, largely achieved by engaging people to secure their basic needs and guide them towards what would motive them to avoid the CJ system again. Public protection was a secondary goal, indirectly achieved.

"I keep reading that Probation is "failing to keep the public safe". Always defined as an organisation that must keep the public safe." 1/7

@jimbrownblog What's really telling in amongst some of these posts @jimbrownblog is that probation now needs to be prefaced by the word 'community' to let people know the author doesn't mean something done in a prison 😔

"Community Probation really is in a state and its not helped by who is entitled to request, not direct, or instruct. It should only be your immediate line manager." 3/3

"It's like having two bosses. Your SPO and the passive/aggressive/gentle reminder of case workers from PPCS and the Parole Board. Why do caseworkers at The Parole Board direct you to complete work that has nothing to do with you as well?" 1/3

On the day @BSC2024Strath draws to a close, I’m very excited to announce that I’ve got a new publication out in the @PSJ_UK detailing some more findings from my PhD about relational re/integration and withdrawal following release from a life sentence 🔔 Check it out here! ⬇️

My partner is doing the Thames Path Challenge 100K walk to fundraise for War Child. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/reece-cal…

The Rehabilitating Probation team have been on the road again, this time for a project panel at @BSC2024Strath Great to be able to share insights from the research and explore challenges being faced by those delivering rehabilitation @ESRC @HarryAnnison @NicolaCarr @m_millings

@PoliSciJack Surprising lack of comment about the narrative of Labour has already won before polling stations opened may have suppressed voter turnout - labour support may be larger than represented, or it could be a further strategic own goal by the Cons.

At @BSC2024Strath , I’ll be illustrating how criminal record disclosure acts as a catalyst for identity work, and exploring the narrative labour that goes into maintaining and reconstructing ‘non-criminal’ identities - part of a great #narrativecriminology panel ✨

If you're coming to @BSC2024Strath and are interested in publishing you might be interested in our Roundtable in which we will be discussing the commissioning by @CrimPublishing of the International Handbook on #SensoryCriminology #Criminology #BSC2024

@WarrCriminology Another example to illustrate tour point - I'd add quote marks around the 'care' below, but its not my headline or byline. BBC News - 'Locked up far from my family': The teens in care detained by law - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Maybe cynical, but I think that using neutralising language to construct the idea of a #ChildPrison only increases the likelihood that (as with so many #prisons that precede it) such an institution will devolve into a site of #ChildAbuse #SecureSchool #Prison #Criminology