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The Department of Sociology and Criminology June 2008

The Department of Sociology and Criminology. Largest Department in the Faculty of ArtsOver 400 majors registered (2006). Diverse Faculty and Staff. International FacultyEuropeNorth AmericaAfricaMiddle EastAustralia. Full-Time Faculty. Department ChairpersonDr. Evangelia Tastsoglou; LLB and Ph.D.Criminology Graduate Studies CoordinatorDiane Crocker; B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. Undergraduate Student AdvisorRussell Westhaver, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D..

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The Department of Sociology and Criminology June 2008

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    1. The Department of Sociology and Criminology June 2008

    3. Diverse Faculty and Staff International Faculty Europe North America Africa Middle East Australia

    4. Full-Time Faculty Department Chairperson Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou; LLB and Ph.D. Criminology Graduate Studies Coordinator Diane Crocker; B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. Undergraduate Student Advisor Russell Westhaver, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

    5. Full-Time Faculty Professors Dr. Gene Barrett; B.A., M.A., and D. Phil. Dr. Linda Christiansen-Ruffman; B.A. and Ph.D. Dr. John McMullan; B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou; LLB and Ph.D. Dr. Henry Veltmeyer; Licenciatura, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.

    6. Full-Time Faculty Associate Professors Sandra Bell; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D. Michele Byers; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D. Diane Crocker; B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. Val Marie Johnson; B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. David Perrier; B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D. Stephen Schneider; B.A., M.Sc., and Ph. D. Madine VanderPlaat; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D.

    7. Full-Time Faculty Assistant Professors Zohreh Bayatrizi; B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Dr. Kevin Bonnycastle, B.A., M.A., and Ph.D MacDonald Ighodaro; B.A., M.A., and Ph. D. Audrey MacNevin; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D. Mythili Rajiva; B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Russell Westhaver; B.A. M.A., and Ph. D.

    8. Sessional Faculty J. David Flint; Ph.D.

    9. Part-Time Faculty Winston Barnwell; Ph.D. Ashley Carver; B.A., M.A., Ph.D candidate Jan Cavicchi; B.A. (Hons.), M.A. Karla Henderson; B.A (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D candidate Frank Hoskins; B.A.,B.E.D., LL.B., Q.C Linda Liebenberg; Ph.D Janet McClain; M.F.A, M.E.S, Ph.D Delthia Miller; M.A Barb Moore; B.A.(Hons.), M.A., Ph.D Marianne Parsons; Ph.D. Russell Prime; B.Sc, LL.B., M.Div, M.A.

    10. Part-Time Faculty Verona Singer; M.C.A., Ph.D candidate Kit Waters; B.Sc., M.A James Whiting; B.A, M.A, LL.B.

    11. Support Staff Department Secretaries Sandi Cole-Pay Lindia Smith Department Intern Sheena Alleyne B.A. (hons), MA Candidate

    12. Diverse Areas of Expertise Youth Justice Sociology of Women History of Women Feminist Criminology Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality and Age: Intersections Health and Body Issues Crime Prevention Organized Crime Human Rights Punishment Economic crime Social Policy

    13. Ongoing, Externally Supported Research Projects SSHRCC / Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence and CIC “Profiles of Immigrant Communities in Atlantic Canada: The Role of Networks in Attracting, Retaining and Integrating Immigrant Men and Women in Atlantic Canada” Amount- $135,000 Community University Research Alliance (CURA) -SSHRC Grant Beyond Theory: Restorative Justice in Practice (2005-2010). This CURA is broadly concerned with the practice of restorative justice (RJ) and its institutionalization.  Amount- $1,000,000

    14. Ongoing, Externally Supported Research Projects Federal Department Of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (National Crime Prevention Centre) “Crime Prevention through Social Development” Amount- $380,000 Canadian Race Relations Foundation “La force du prejugé et l’ instropection de la communauté Arabe et Musulmane du Nouveau Brunswick et de la Nouvelle Ecosse aux lois sur la securité national” Amount- $25,000

    15. Ongoing, Externally Supported Research Projects Standard SSHRC Research Grant The Dynamics of Regional Change in Latin America Amount: $85,000 Standard SSHRC Research Grant Poverty Alleviation and Human Development: Kerala and Cuba Amount: $155,000

    16. Ongoing, Externally Supported Research Projects Standard SSHRC Research Grant “Not in Front of the Children: Canadian Media and the Production of Youth Cultures” Amount- $58,000 SSHRC Standard Research Grant Canadian Juvenile Justice Reform & Liberal Governing: A Socio-Political Analysis, 1960-1982 Amount - $55,000

    17. Ongoing, Externally Supported Research Projects Nova Scotia Gaming Commission “Commercial Advertising and Adolescent Gambling” Amount: $345,000 Ford Foundation International Feminist University/Saint Mary’s University Amount: $100,000US

    18. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Gene Barrett Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Co-Authored Book), 1998 Dr. Linda Christiansen-Ruffman The Global Feminist Enlightenment: Women and Social Knowledge. Montreal: International Sociological Association, 1998. Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal. "Feminist Field-Based Learning: Theory and Praxis in the Course of Knowledge Creation." Volume 22.1, 1997.

    19. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. John McMullan "Lost Lives at Westray: Official Discourse, Public Truth and Controversial Deaths", forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2007. "Controlling Cyber-Crime and Gambling: Problems and Paradoxes in the Mediation of Law and Criminal Organization, accepted for publication and forthcoming in International Journal of Police Practice and Research, 2007. (co-authored with Dr. David Perrier) "News, Truth and the Recognition of Corporate Crime", The Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 48:6, (2006) pp 905-939.

    20. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou Security and Immigration, Changes and Challenges: Immigrant and Ethnic Communities in Atlantic Canada, Presumed Guilty? Ottawa: Status of Women Canada (Policy Research Fund) and the Department of Canadian Heritage,, 2007 (Co-authors- D. Crocker, A. Dobrowolsky, E. Keeble, C. Moncayo) Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections (co-edited with A. Dobrowolsky) Ashgate Publishers, 2006. “Gender, Immigration and Employment Integration: Where We Are and What We Still Need to Know” (co-authored with V. Preston) Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. Vol. 30.1 (Fall) 2005, pp. 46-59

    21. Recent Faculty Publications Henry Veltmeyer Multinationals on Trial: Foreign Investment Matters. London: Ashgate. (Coauthor James Petras) Translated into Spanish (Madrid, Editorial Popular; Portuguese (Petrópolis, Editorial Vozes) and German (Berlin: Zambon). 2007. Illusions and Opportunities: Civil Society in the Quest for Social Change. Halifax: Fernwood / London: Zed Books. 2007 Juicio a las Multinacionales." Buenos Aires: Editorial Lumen. Coauthor J. Petras. 2006

    22. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Sandra Bell Young Offenders and Youth Justice: A Century after the Fact, 3rd Edition (2006) Toronto: Nelson Thomson Learning “Crime Statistics and the “Girl Problem”. In B. Schissel and C. Brooks (eds) Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Critical Criminology 2nd edition (2007) Halifax: Fernwood. “The Complexities of Negotiating Power under Conditions of Chronic Illness”, in M. K. Owen (ed) Women with Chronic Illness, (coauthor - M.Delaney) (2007) Women’s Press/Canadian Scholars Press.

    23. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Michele Byers Dear Angela:  Remembering My So-Called Life.  Co-edited with David Lavery. Lexington Books, 2007  With Rosalin Kreiger. “From Ugly Duckling to Cool Fashion Icon: Sarah Jessica Parker’s Blonde Ambitions.” Shofar. Forthcoming 2007. “Material Bodies and Performative Identities: Mona, Neil, and the Promised Land.”  Philip Roth Studies. 2006: 102–120.

    24. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Diane Crocker Criminalizing Harassment and the Transformative Potential of Law. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (forthcoming) Regulating Intimacy: Judicial Discourse in Cases of Wife Assault (1970-2000). Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal. (2005) Criminal Harassment: Understanding Criminal Justice Outcomes for Victims, Department of Justice Canada, 61 pp. (2004)

    25. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. David Perrier "The Security of Gambling and Gambling with Security: Hacking, Law Enforcement and Public Policy" International Gambling Studies, Vol. 7, Number 1, 43-58, April 2007 (co-author, J.L. McMullan ) "Lobster Poaching and the Ironies of Law Enforcement" published in Law and Society Review, Vol. 36, Number 4, 679-717, 2002 (co-author- J.L. McMullan)

    26. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt The Politics of Organized Crime, and the Organized Crime of Politics: A Study of Criminal Power Lexington Books, 2006 Author of paper titled Corruption in the Developing World: Some Insights From the Peruvian Experience, presented during the November 2005 annual reunion of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Toronto, Canada Paper titled Guerras, Drogas y Armas (Wars, Drugs, and Arms) on the history of the arms-for-drug trade, published in QUE HACER (Lima,Peru), No. 149, 2004.

    27. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Madine VanderPlaat Integration Outcomes for Immigrant Women in Canada; A Review of the Literature. Ottawa: Integration Branch, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (2007). Building Community Capacity in Governance and Decision Making. Community Development Journal (2005) (Co-author, Gene Barrett). Mainstreaming Social Justice: Human Rights and Public Health. The Canadian Journal of Public Health. 96(1): 34-36. (2005) (co-author, Nair Teles)

    28. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Zohreh Bayatrizi  "From Revolution to Freedom:" The Discursive Mobilization of 'Civil Society in Iran 1997-2001, Asia Japan Journal, 2 (March) 2007.   'From Fate to Risk: The Quantitative Problematization of Mortality in Early Modern Statistics. ‘ Theory, Culture and Society, 25(1). 2008 Life Sentences: The Modern Ordering of Mortality, book contract with Univeristy of Toronto Press, September 2007.

    29. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Kevin Bonnycastle ‘Rape Uncodified: Reconsidering Bill C-49 Amendments to Canadian Sexual Assault Laws,’ in Law as a Gendering Practice, Dorothy E. Chunn and Dany Lacombe, eds., Oxford University Press (2001) ‘The Future of Research on Woman Battering’ in Unsettling Truths: Battered Women, Policy, Politics, and Contemporary Research in Canada, Collective Press (1999) Unsettling Truths: Battered Women, Policy, Politics, and Contemporary Research in Canada, Collective Press (1999) (co-editor George S.Rigakos)

    30. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Val Marie Johnson "'The Rest Can Go to the Devil': Macy's Workers Negotiate Gender, Sex, Class and Race." Journal of Women's History 19, n.1 (March 2007): 32-57. "'The moral aspects of complex problems': New York City Electoral Campaigns Against Vice and the Incorporation of Immigrants, 1890-1901." Journal of American Ethnic History 25, nos.2-3 (Winter/Spring 2006): 74-106. "Policing Borders, Citizenship, and Cities: the Gendered and Racialized Inspection & Regulation of Immigrants at the Turn of the Last Century." In Uniform Behavior: Localism, Reform, and Police-Community Relationships in Modern America. Edited by S. McGoldrick & A. McArdle, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2006, 25-54.

    31. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Audrey MacNevin "Embodying Sociological Mindfulness: Learning About Social Inequality through the Body. Teaching Sociology. V.32, No. 3 Pp. 314-21. (2004) “Remaining Audible to the Self: Women and Holistic Healthism.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, V. 27.2 Spring, Pp. 16-23. (2003) “Exercising Options: Holistic Health and Technical Beauty in Gendered Accounts of Bodywork” The Sociological Quarterly, V.44, No. 2, Pp. 271-289. (2003)

    32. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Mythili Rajiva Spring 2006. Accepted with Revisions. “Troping Mr. Johnson: Reading Phallic Mastery and Anxiety in the First Season of C.S.I.: the Original Series”, in M. Byers and V.M. Johnson (eds.) The C.S.I. Effect? Television, Crime, and Critical Theory. Contract Awarded by Lexington Books, Expected date of publication: 2007. May 2006. “Brown Girls, White Worlds: Adolescence and the Making of Racialized Selves”, The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 165-183.

    33. Recent Faculty Publications Stephen Schneider Money Laundering in Canada: Chasing Dirty and Dangerous and Dollars. (Co-authored with Margaret Beare). Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2007). Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for Community. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, February, 2007. “Privatising economic crime enforcement: Exploring the role of private sector investigative agencies in combating money laundering.” Policing and Society. 16(3), 285-313 (2006).

    34. Recent Faculty Publications Dr. Russell Westhaver "Flaunting and Empowerment: Thinking about Circuit Parties, the Body, and Power." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35:611-644 (2006) ”Gay Men Dancing, Circuit Parties." in Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays and Interviews. New York: Routledge (2006) "'Coming out of your skin': Circuit Parties, Pleasure, and the Subject." Sexualities 8:367-394. (2005)

    35. Programmes Bachelor of Arts, Major in Sociology Bachelor of Arts, Major in Criminology Double Major Honours in Sociology Honours in Criminology Concentration in Sociology Concentration in Criminology Minor in Sociology M.A. in Criminology

    36. Sociology and Criminology Undergraduate Programmes Sociology Core Courses Intro Sociology, Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory Research Design Data Analysis Wide Range of Elective Courses in: Education, Gender and International Migration, Race, Colonialism and Anti-Racist Discourse,

    37. Sociology Cont’d Wide Range of Elective Courses in (cont’d) International Development, Media, Society as Drama, Law, Aging, Family The body Health, etc..

    38. Sociology and Criminology Undergraduate Programmes Criminology Pre-requisite Courses from various disciplines Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology Core Courses Classical and Contemporary Criminological Theory, Crime and Society, Research Methods, Statistics Canadian Criminal Justice System…

    39. Sociology and Criminology Undergraduate Programmes Criminology cont’d Wide Range of Elective Courses Human Rights Crime and Media Gender and Sexuality Policing Domestic Violence Organized crime Youth Justice and Rights Drugs Law and Governance Urban Regulation Penology…

    40. Recent Honours Theses 2005 Max Haiven- Calling the Tune: Internet File-Sharing, The Music Industry and Two Metanarratives (Sociology) Ian Mingo- Recognizing Harm: From Rape to Sexual Assault (Criminology) Neil McCallum- An Examination of Forms of Regulation and Control Imposed on Marginalized First Nations Peoples (Criminology)

    41. Recent Honours Theses 2005 Peter Parsons- Policing Girls: Exploring Police Discretion with Girls Accused of Shoplifting (Criminology) Raegan Carmichael- The Rise and Fall of a Guerrilla Organization: Strain Theory and Peru’s Shining Path (Criminology) Katie Jones- The Obese Body as Deviant: Binary Standards and the Female Body from a Postmodern Perspective (Criminology)

    42. Recent Honours Theses 2006 Miku Harada- The Sexual Military Complex in Southeast Asia (Sociology) Adrienne Peters- “Sex and Candy”: An Assessment of the Abused-abuser Relationship: Hypothesis on the causes of Pedophilia” (Criminology) Amanda Gauvin- Criminalization of Poverty through Public Housing (Criminology)

    43. Recent Honours Theses 2006 Aunshul Rege- Hack-Attack! Cyberextortion and Internet Gambling: A Study of Criminal Techniques in a Virtual World (Criminology) Amanda Horsman- Cultural Catalysts: Acadian Youth in Moncton, News Brunswick (Sociology) Krista Hopper- Engendering Madness: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Paramedical Occupations (Sociology)

    44. Recent Honours Theses 2007 Noelle Hachee- Cyber bullying: An Exploration Of the Impact of Information and Communications Techniques on Bullying (Criminology) Christine Hurst- A Historical Perspective of Punishment: The Maintenance of State Power (Criminology) Crystal-Lee Hoganson- Neo-Nazi Influence on the Canadian Youth: An anslysis of who is at risk of becoming a Neo-Nazi and recruitment tools used (Criminology)

    45. Recent Honours Theses 2007 Fronia Durnford- Youth Crime: An Exploration of Youth Crime in Social Housing Communities (Criminology) Jake Greenland- Resisting Violent Outcomes: Youth Resilience in the Cape Flats (Criminology) Meaghan Andrews- Adolescent Female Prostitution in Canada (Criminology)

    46. Recent Honours Theses 2007 Shareen Nimmo- Motorcycles of Money Laundering: Classifying the Hells Angels as an Organized Crime Group (Criminology) Valerie Billard- Voices From The Projects: Girls’ Violence (Criminology) Barbara Van Tassel- Barriers and Challenges Face by Indigenous Black Nova Scotians in the Educational System (Sociology)

    47. Recent Honours Theses 2007 Jennifer Cleator- “The Private is the Public”: Canadian Women’s Participation in Marital Law (Sociology) Matthew Grant, “Private and Commercialized Urban Space: A Case Study of Yonge-Dundas Square,” (Criminology)

    48. M.A. in Criminology Diverse areas of study within the field of Criminology Well recognized in the field of Critical Criminology

    49. Recently Completed M.A. Theses Alanna Howell (2007) Victims of Child Sexual Abuse: Who's Responsible and Who's Believable? Nicole E. R. Landry (2006) “ The Mean Girl Motive": Establishing Power and Status Within Hierarchies of Femininity Delthia E. Miller (2006) The Media, Fear of Crime, and Gender: The Production of News in a Popular Canadian Women's Magazine.

    50. Recently Completed M.A. Theses Jan Cavicchi (2005) Representing Stalking in the News Tameka Bowes (2006) Structural Contradictions and Lawmaking: Observations on Organized Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Legislation in Canada within the Context of International Protocols David MacDonald (2005) Stress and Culture in Police Work: An Ethnographic Study of Canadian Police Officers

    51. Meet the Students Currently 376 Enrolled in undergraduate programmes Currently 14 Enrolled in graduate programme

    52. Links to Other Programs and Centres Programmes International Development Studies Women and Gender Studies (Undergraduate; Inter-University, Graduate) Atlantic Canada Studies Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity (AMC) Links Academic Committee Members Associate Faculty Cross-listed Courses Cross-Appointed Faculty Thesis Supervision Chairs, Directors

    53. Links to Other Programs Programmes Political Science Anthropology Psychology Linguistics Links Faculty Collaborations Joint Research Initiatives Cross listed courses

    54. Academic Exchange Agreements Overseas (Academic Exchange Programs initiated by Sociology and Criminology Faculty) International Experiential Learning in Germany (Goethe University of Frankfurt) University of the Aegean (new agreement)

    55. Links to the Community Various Research and Community-based projects SMU PALS High School Co-op Programme CURA Research Project in Restorative Justice Security and Immigration, Changes and Challenges: Immigrant and Ethnic Communities in Atlantic Canada, Presumed Guilty? (Status of Women, Policy Fund and the Department of Canadian Heritage) Atlantic Metropolis Centre of Excellence for Research on Migration and Diversity (AMC; involving academic researchers and government and community stake-holders) Criminalization of Poverty Nova Scotia Poverty Reduction

    56. Thank You Prepared by: Sheena Alleyne, Departmental Intern 2007-08 with Faculty Input

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