Outreach

Media Appearances 

Lectures and Presentations

  • Oct 2019 “Indigenous overincarceration in Western Canadian prisoners”, Prison Research Group, Cambridge University, UK.
  • Aug 2019 “Multiculturalism under confinement” Winter School of Criminology, Santa Fe, Argentina Winter School of Criminology, Santa Fe, Argentina.
  • Aug 2019 “Fentanyl behind bars” Winter School of Criminology, Santa Fe.
  • Nov 2018 “Victim offender overlap”, Indigenous Women’s Justice Forum, Edmonton, Canada.
  • May 2018 “Culture contra radicalization – subcultural values among Canadian inmates”, University of Oslo, Norway.

Academic Conference Presentations

  • Nov 2019 “Victim-offender overlap among prisoners in Western Canada, American Society of Criminology (ASC), San Francisco, United States.
  • Nov 2019 “Legitimacy and stability: perceptions of gangs in Western Canadian prisons”, ASC, San Francisco, United States.
  • Nov 2019 “I’d much rather take care of myself: non-reporting among incarcerated men and women”, ASC, San Francisco, United States.
  • Nov 2019 “Complicated choices: administrative segregation in Western Canadian prisons”, ASC, San Francisco, United States.
  • Nov 2019 “You have no idea what we do – correctional officers, mental health, and prison ethnography, ASC, San Francisco, United States.
  • Oct 2019 “Remanded women: victim/offender overlap”, Law and Enforcement and Public Health Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (with D. Jones* and K. Haggerty).
  • Sept 2019 “Culture contra radicalization”, European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium.
  • Sept 2019 “The evolving cultural capital of food in prison”, European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium.
  • Nov 2018 “The ‘skinner’: Deviant labels and their role in the prison”, ASC, Atlanta, United States.
  • Nov 2018 “Radicalization in Canadian Prisons”, Prevention- Practise Conference on Radicalization, University of Alberta.
  • June 2018 “Pains of imprisonment”, The Society of Captives Today – 60 years of Imprisonment, University of Leicester and University of Cambridge, UK.

Invited Presentations and Lectures for Community and Government Organizations

  • Oct 2019 “Prison as a temporary refuge”, Event to honour the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Edmonton Institution for Women.
  • Sept 2019 “Lessons for police from the University of Alberta Prison Project”, Training and Recruitment Unit, Edmonton Police Service.
  • April 2019 “Victimization among inmates”, Canadian Bar Foundation.
  • March 2019 “Victim-offender overlap in Alberta prisons”, Trauma Informed Gathering, REACH Edmonton and Native Counselling Services of Alberta.
  • Jan 2019 “Findings of the University of Alberta Prison Project”, Ministry of Corrections, Alberta.