Professor of Criminology targeted by gender ideologues

James Treadwell @James_Treadwell

Ok to hell with it. I have been told by my employer @StaffsUni albeit only verbally that I am being investigated for Transphobia after formal and official complaints about my Twitter conduct. Read my tweets. Go figure. It's a good job cancel culture is just a myth though, right.

James Treadwell @James_Treadwell

Right, I am gone again. Do not feel I can say why now, but I expect some may guess. I am available through email or to those who have my number. Meanwhile keep valuing rationality, freedom and reasonable debate, its supposed to matter. Bye all. This time I may not be back.

I would expect quick condemnation of this intimidation and harassment from prominent members of scientific and academic communities.

There follows more background on James Treadwell from the Staffordshire University website. This is who they’re trying to cancel on the sly, while men like Owen Jones and Stewart Lee carefully avoid being caught discussing the key issues. Their cowardice is bad enough, but to avoid an important debate while casting those within it, like James, as bigots is something that should follow them to the grave.

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I became a Professor in Criminology at Staffordshire University in 2017, having started my career as a Lecturer in Criminology in 2003 at the University of Central England. Before I moved into academia I had previously worked for NACRO and the National Probation Service. I have previously held academic posts at Birmingham Law School (University of Birmingham) the Centre for Applied Criminology (Birmingham City University) and the Department of Criminology (University of Leicester). I am currently a member of the executive with the British Society of Criminology (and act as Chair of the Prizes Committee). I was academic advisor on the Howard League Commission into Ex-Military Personnel in Prison (advising the inquiry chair Sir John Nutting QC). I was opening speaker at the launch of Secretary of State for Justice's Inquiry into Veterans within the Criminal Justice System in London in April 2014.

My research is largely based on ethnography and in depth interviewing. I undertook a long term ethnographic study of the English Defence League publishing material from that project (with Simon Winlow and Steve Hall) in the well-received book ‘Rise of the Right’. Prior to that, I used ethnographic methods to study the August 2011 English Riots and material generated from that project featured in ‘Riots and Political Protest’ (With Simon Winlow, Steve Hall and Dan Briggs). My Sage published textbook ‘Criminology’ (2013) is in its second edition and is used as an introduction to the subject of criminology at several universities. I have contributed to a number of criminology and sociology edited collections. I have published articles in international Journals such as the British Journal of Criminology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Crime, Media, Culture and the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.

I have recently been researching prison and criminal drugs markets, examining the cultivation of cannabis in economically deprived areas (with Craig Ancrum, Teesside University) and Prison based drug supply as part of a larger project on bullying, violence and victimisation in prison (with Dr Kate Gooch, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester). I am currently writing Criminological Ethnography: An Introduction’ for Sage with Dr Steve Wakeman and articles and a book on Prison Violence with Dr Gooch.

I am a member of the editorial board of The British Journal of Criminology, and have served on the editorial board of The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and the Journal of Criminal Psychology. I served as an external examiner at Teesside University (Undergraduate) and Swansea (Postgraduate) and have recently acted as external examiner of PhDs at Aberystwyth, York and Keele and Goldsmiths as well as being an external reviewer for the Open University, Kingston University and the University of the West of England.

I have significant media experience and has offered media comment on a range of crime and criminal justice related matters. I have been contacted to provide recorded and live on air expert commentary on various crime matters for BBC News, BBC News 24 and BBC World News, the ITV news at 10 and Sky News, along with factual shows such as ‘The One Show’, BBC’s Ones flagship moral and ethical debate programme ‘the Big Questions’ and the BBC 2 award winning documentary ‘A History of Now: the Story of the Noughties’. I also regularly appear on local and national radio and have previously been interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ and ‘Today’, and on several news documentary programmes on crime, prisons and policing on BBC Radio 2, 4 and BBC Radio 5 live. I also recently featured on the BBC World Service documentary ‘Europe's drugs wars’ talking about drugs and organised crime within English prisons. I am always keen to hear from prospective PhD students looking to study any aspect of crime using ethnographic methods or who have an interest in a field connected to my expertise.