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Papers by Rosemary (Rose) Ricciardelli
Canadian Public Policy
L’objectif de cette analyse de contenu est d’étudier les lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents d... more L’objectif de cette analyse de contenu est d’étudier les lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents de travail au Canada, dans le but de déterminer si les mesures législatives en place répondent aux besoins des travailleuses et travailleurs en protection de l’enfance qui subissent des blessures liées au stress occupationnel (BSO). Après une revue de littérature détaillée sur les risques psychologiques inhérents au travail de protection de l’enfance, ainsi qu’une analyse du contenu des lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents de travail au Canada, nous soutenons deux choses : (a) la nature du travail de protection de l’enfance et les facteurs organisationnels exposent les intervenant·es de ce milieu à des risques particuliers de développer des BSO ; (b) quand ces intervenant·es subissent effectivement une blessure psychologique, ils et elles doivent s’orienter dans un système d’indemnisation des accidents de travail qui ne reconnait pas leur blessure comme une blessure occupationnelle et i...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2017
Drawing on Canadian police data on homicide involving domestic dispute calls from 1960 to the pre... more Drawing on Canadian police data on homicide involving domestic dispute calls from 1960 to the present (n = 20), as well as on in-depth interviews with police officers (n = 33) working in rural and remote communities, the authors reexamine the argument that police attendance at domestic disturbance calls can pose a special threat to officer safety. Although some scholarship suggests that purported risks have been overstated,
Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
Alcohol use among correctional workers remains an understudied phenomenon, although recognized in... more Alcohol use among correctional workers remains an understudied phenomenon, although recognized in literature as a coping strategy employed by persons in public safety occupations. Moreover, previous literature denotes a prevalence of mental health disorders higher than that of the general population among correctional workers and public safety personnel. In the present study, we examine the prevalence of alcohol use disorders among correctional workers employed in the provincial correctional service in Ontario, Canada (n = 915), to understand the severity of the concern and to explain how alcohol use is associated with diverse mental health concerns. Specifically, we unpack the correlation between problematic alcohol use, mental health disorders, and suicide behaviours among this correctional worker population, finding that the prevalence of mental health disorders and suicide thoughts and behaviours was higher for persons reporting problematic alcohol use. Discussion includes recommendations on research needs tied to unpacking the relationship, including causal relationship between alcohol use and mental health, as a way to combat the devastating realities tied to compromised mental health endured by employees in correctional services. Public Significance Statement We found relatively low prevalence of alcohol use disorder among provincial correctional workers, which suggests that perhaps awareness of the impacts of addiction given their work with criminalized people may be affecting alcohol use. However, mental health disorders and suicide behaviours were strongly associated with alcohol use disorders, indicating that improving the mental health and wellbeing of correctional workers remains an important public health priority. More needs to be done to disambiguate the comorbidity between alcohol use disorder and other mental health disorders among correctional workers.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2019
The Qualitative Report, 2014
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable ra... more In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14 interviews were conducted to investigate experiences of masculinity, physical appearance and cosmetic surgery among Canadian men who had undergone or were contemplating cosmetic surgery. Responses suggest that bodily presentations and experiences of masculinity continue to influence how people feel about themselves and their perspective toward cosmetic surgery. Findings are discussed in relation to contemporary constructions of masculinity, body, and identity.
Criminal Justice Studies, 2016
Researchers have demonstrated how engaging in rituals or 'patterned' behaviors can help people co... more Researchers have demonstrated how engaging in rituals or 'patterned' behaviors can help people cope with stressful situations and significant life changes. Yet, knowledge of the role of ritual and routine practices for, or how each are used by, federally incarcerated Canadian men is limited. To respond to this lacuna, we analyzed transcripts from 56 semi-structured in-depth interviews with former male federal prisoners released on parole for emergent themes related to ritual and routine practices across prisons of different security classifications. Findings reveal the effectiveness of rituals for managing and mitigating the stresses of incarceration, specifically how prisoners' routine behaviors constitute a positive strategy of adaption to incarceration (e.g. alleviating stress and passing time), in preparation for life post-incarceration. Structural ritualization theory frames the analyses and implications presented in this study. Overcrowding, decreased programing-both criminogenic and pro-social-and increasingly deteriorating conditions of confinement mark Canadian federal prisons (Office of the Auditor General, 2014; Quan, 2015; Sapers, 2011). Prison is a temporary living arrangement, yet the emotional and physical effects of incarceration shape each prisoner's re-entry potential. As the security level of the facility increases, prisoners are managed, monitored, controlled, and incapacitated with growing intensity (Lynch, 2012; Ricciardelli, 2014). In turn, the ability to manage the anxieties and stress produced by penal living is invaluable for prisoners (Reed, Alenazi, & Potterton, 2009). Yet, knowledge of how prisoners navigate their stresses and time in prison remains limited. To this end, we unpack how prisoners use ritual to manage the stress ensuing from conditions of confinement. Drawing on the meanings associated with rituals, defined as repeated actions that hold a symbolic purpose for actors, we present the ritual practices revealed by 56 male former Canadian federal prisoners in semi-structured in-depth face-to-face interviews. We direct attention to (1) the rituals prisoners engage in and (2) both how and why prisoners construct these behaviors (e.g. the purpose of rituals and how they develop and are maintained).
Canadian Journal of Sociology
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed how correctional systems, including parole proces... more The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed how correctional systems, including parole processes, work and function. As essential workers, parole officers continued to work through the pandemic, despite the upheaval to their typical occupational routines. Through these challenging times, they worked to meet the needs of parolees; yet, the challenges brought on by the pandemic caused considerable stress and created new occupational risks and vulnerabilities. Drawing on interviews with 54 community parole officers in Canada, this paper identifes these challenges and stressors. Specifically, we identify three COVID-19 related occupational stressors salient across interviewees’ narratives: (1) Changes to workload, routines, and work-life boundaries; (2) Effects of decarceration policies; and (3) Navigating support and supervision in the face of added health risks and reduced ability to interact with clients. Drawing on studies of occupational stress in community correctional work, w...
Social Science, Surviving Incarceration, May 30, 2014
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2018
We thematically analysed responses volunteered by 828 of the nearly 9,000 public safety personnel... more We thematically analysed responses volunteered by 828 of the nearly 9,000 public safety personnel (PSP) who participated in an online survey on occupational stress injuries and symptoms. Participants responded to an open-ended optional request for “additional feedback” located at the end of the survey. Salient response themes reveal that, across occupations and organizations, PSP report witnessing, enduring, and encountering extensive trauma, directly and vicariously, acutely and cumulatively. PSP reported effects of such trauma on themselves and their families as including physical (e.g., headaches, back pain, cardiac arrest, digestive symptoms), psychological (e.g., crying, feeling unhappy, living in fear, experiencing anxiety and anger), and social or interpersonal impacts (e.g., social exclusion, avoidance, cynicism towards others). The effects on their families included marital breakdown and relationship dissolution with children, as well as increased familial stress, strain, a...
Experiencing Imprisonment, 2016
Frontiers in Psychology
Public safety personnel are at an elevated risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors relative to t... more Public safety personnel are at an elevated risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors relative to the general public. Correctional workers in particular report some of the highest prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To better understand this phenomenon, the current study draws on qualitative, open-ended survey response data (n = 94) that explores three distinct themes (occupational environment, lack of support, social silence) and how entrenched notions of mental health stigma and occupational culture inform how Canadian correctional workers understand their experiences with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. We conclude with a brief discussion of the research and policy implications, with an emphasis on mobilizing efforts to normalize mental health discussion in correctional workplaces, bolstering peer support resources, and collaboration, and assessing the limited organizational supports available to struggling staff.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In this editorial, we draw on two Canadian cases to interrogate how mass causality events and inv... more In this editorial, we draw on two Canadian cases to interrogate how mass causality events and investigations consume many responders before (e.g., public safety communicators, detachment service assistants), during (e.g., police, fire, paramedics), and after the incident (e.g., coroners, correctional workers, media coverage). Their well-being may suffer from the associated processes and outcomes. In the current article, we focus on the mass causality incident of 2020 in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the investigation following a prisoner death in 2019 in Newfoundland, Canada, to explore how testifying post-incident can be made more palatable for participating public safety personnel (PSP). Specifically, we study how testifying after an adverse event can affect PSP (e.g., recalling, vicarious trauma, triggers) and how best to mitigate the impact of testimony on PSP well-being, with a lens to psychological “recovery” or wellness. We focus here on how to support those who may have to testif...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundResearchers and practitioners have begun to recognize and empirically examine the menta... more BackgroundResearchers and practitioners have begun to recognize and empirically examine the mental health challenges facing public safety personnel (PSP). Empirical results from longitudinal data collection among PSP remains extremely scant, particularly for institutional correctional workers. We designed the current study to assess the mental health of Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) correctional officer recruits (CORs) across time to help clarify potential challenges to or protective factors for mental health across correctional officer (CO) careers.MethodsThe current study uses data from the Canadian Correctional Workers' Wellbeing, Organizations, Roles, and Knowledge (CCWORK) study. The study uses a longitudinal design with self-report surveys administered online prior to CORs beginning the CSC Correctional Training Program. Initial baseline survey data were used to assess demographic information and mental health symptoms endorsed at the outset of the training program....
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Background—Public safety personnel (PSP) are at heightened risk of developing mental health chall... more Background—Public safety personnel (PSP) are at heightened risk of developing mental health challenges due to exposures to diverse stressors including potentially psychologically traumatic experiences. An increased focus on protecting PSP mental health has prompted demand for interventions designed to enhance resilience. While hundreds of available interventions are aimed to improve resilience and protect PSPs’ mental health, research evidence regarding intervention effectiveness remains sparse. Methods—Focus groups with PSP elicited a discussion of psychoeducational program content, preferred modes of program delivery, when such training should occur, and to whom it ought to be targeted. Results—The results of thematic analyses suggest that PSP participants feel that contemporary approaches to improving mental health and resilience are lacking. While welcomed, the provision of sporadic one-off mental health and resilience programs by organizations was seen as insufficient, and the ...
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société
In addition to standard parole conditions, parolees under federal community supervision may be su... more In addition to standard parole conditions, parolees under federal community supervision may be subject to special conditions as determined by the Parole Board of Canada; such conditions are intended to manage factors associated with criminogenic risk and need. One set of special conditions places restrictions on parolees’ social relationships and associations, which can include general restrictions (e.g., non-association with individuals involved in crime) or specific restrictions (e.g., no contact with one’s victim or co-accused). Drawing on case files of women under community supervision (n = 43), we explore how non-association and no contact orders shape community release experiences. We suggest that such conditions can have wide-reaching effects on women’s social lives and reintegration (e.g., in the areas of social support, employment, and housing), thereby, at times, complicating women’s attempts to construct post-institutional lives and identities. We consider how association...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic eve... more Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs) which can impact mental health. To help mitigate the negative effects of PPTEs, PSP commonly rely on peer support. Peer support generally refers to a wide variety of mental health resources that offer social or emotional assistance to a peer, and in some cases professional assistance. Despite the use of and demand for peer support, there is relatively little empirical evidence regarding effectiveness. The evidence gaps regarding peer support effectiveness may be due, in part, to inadequate guidelines and standards of practice that are publicly supported by a consensus among peer support providers. The current study was designed to explore the current conceptualization and implementation of peer support among Canadian PSP using a document analysis. The results indicate that peer support can be conceptualized via three models (i.e., peer-enabled, peer-led, peer-partnership) and...
Canadian Public Policy
L’objectif de cette analyse de contenu est d’étudier les lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents d... more L’objectif de cette analyse de contenu est d’étudier les lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents de travail au Canada, dans le but de déterminer si les mesures législatives en place répondent aux besoins des travailleuses et travailleurs en protection de l’enfance qui subissent des blessures liées au stress occupationnel (BSO). Après une revue de littérature détaillée sur les risques psychologiques inhérents au travail de protection de l’enfance, ainsi qu’une analyse du contenu des lois sur l’indemnisation des accidents de travail au Canada, nous soutenons deux choses : (a) la nature du travail de protection de l’enfance et les facteurs organisationnels exposent les intervenant·es de ce milieu à des risques particuliers de développer des BSO ; (b) quand ces intervenant·es subissent effectivement une blessure psychologique, ils et elles doivent s’orienter dans un système d’indemnisation des accidents de travail qui ne reconnait pas leur blessure comme une blessure occupationnelle et i...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2017
Drawing on Canadian police data on homicide involving domestic dispute calls from 1960 to the pre... more Drawing on Canadian police data on homicide involving domestic dispute calls from 1960 to the present (n = 20), as well as on in-depth interviews with police officers (n = 33) working in rural and remote communities, the authors reexamine the argument that police attendance at domestic disturbance calls can pose a special threat to officer safety. Although some scholarship suggests that purported risks have been overstated,
Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
Alcohol use among correctional workers remains an understudied phenomenon, although recognized in... more Alcohol use among correctional workers remains an understudied phenomenon, although recognized in literature as a coping strategy employed by persons in public safety occupations. Moreover, previous literature denotes a prevalence of mental health disorders higher than that of the general population among correctional workers and public safety personnel. In the present study, we examine the prevalence of alcohol use disorders among correctional workers employed in the provincial correctional service in Ontario, Canada (n = 915), to understand the severity of the concern and to explain how alcohol use is associated with diverse mental health concerns. Specifically, we unpack the correlation between problematic alcohol use, mental health disorders, and suicide behaviours among this correctional worker population, finding that the prevalence of mental health disorders and suicide thoughts and behaviours was higher for persons reporting problematic alcohol use. Discussion includes recommendations on research needs tied to unpacking the relationship, including causal relationship between alcohol use and mental health, as a way to combat the devastating realities tied to compromised mental health endured by employees in correctional services. Public Significance Statement We found relatively low prevalence of alcohol use disorder among provincial correctional workers, which suggests that perhaps awareness of the impacts of addiction given their work with criminalized people may be affecting alcohol use. However, mental health disorders and suicide behaviours were strongly associated with alcohol use disorders, indicating that improving the mental health and wellbeing of correctional workers remains an important public health priority. More needs to be done to disambiguate the comorbidity between alcohol use disorder and other mental health disorders among correctional workers.
Routledge eBooks, May 16, 2019
The Qualitative Report, 2014
In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable ra... more In postmodern scholarship there has been a temporal shift to thinking of the body as malleable rather than fixed, which has opened space for the remaking of the self via the remaking of the body (Featherstone, 1991; Giddens, 1991). Among men, this process is thought to interact with shifting understandings of masculinity. In this study, 14 interviews were conducted to investigate experiences of masculinity, physical appearance and cosmetic surgery among Canadian men who had undergone or were contemplating cosmetic surgery. Responses suggest that bodily presentations and experiences of masculinity continue to influence how people feel about themselves and their perspective toward cosmetic surgery. Findings are discussed in relation to contemporary constructions of masculinity, body, and identity.
Criminal Justice Studies, 2016
Researchers have demonstrated how engaging in rituals or 'patterned' behaviors can help people co... more Researchers have demonstrated how engaging in rituals or 'patterned' behaviors can help people cope with stressful situations and significant life changes. Yet, knowledge of the role of ritual and routine practices for, or how each are used by, federally incarcerated Canadian men is limited. To respond to this lacuna, we analyzed transcripts from 56 semi-structured in-depth interviews with former male federal prisoners released on parole for emergent themes related to ritual and routine practices across prisons of different security classifications. Findings reveal the effectiveness of rituals for managing and mitigating the stresses of incarceration, specifically how prisoners' routine behaviors constitute a positive strategy of adaption to incarceration (e.g. alleviating stress and passing time), in preparation for life post-incarceration. Structural ritualization theory frames the analyses and implications presented in this study. Overcrowding, decreased programing-both criminogenic and pro-social-and increasingly deteriorating conditions of confinement mark Canadian federal prisons (Office of the Auditor General, 2014; Quan, 2015; Sapers, 2011). Prison is a temporary living arrangement, yet the emotional and physical effects of incarceration shape each prisoner's re-entry potential. As the security level of the facility increases, prisoners are managed, monitored, controlled, and incapacitated with growing intensity (Lynch, 2012; Ricciardelli, 2014). In turn, the ability to manage the anxieties and stress produced by penal living is invaluable for prisoners (Reed, Alenazi, & Potterton, 2009). Yet, knowledge of how prisoners navigate their stresses and time in prison remains limited. To this end, we unpack how prisoners use ritual to manage the stress ensuing from conditions of confinement. Drawing on the meanings associated with rituals, defined as repeated actions that hold a symbolic purpose for actors, we present the ritual practices revealed by 56 male former Canadian federal prisoners in semi-structured in-depth face-to-face interviews. We direct attention to (1) the rituals prisoners engage in and (2) both how and why prisoners construct these behaviors (e.g. the purpose of rituals and how they develop and are maintained).
Canadian Journal of Sociology
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed how correctional systems, including parole proces... more The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed how correctional systems, including parole processes, work and function. As essential workers, parole officers continued to work through the pandemic, despite the upheaval to their typical occupational routines. Through these challenging times, they worked to meet the needs of parolees; yet, the challenges brought on by the pandemic caused considerable stress and created new occupational risks and vulnerabilities. Drawing on interviews with 54 community parole officers in Canada, this paper identifes these challenges and stressors. Specifically, we identify three COVID-19 related occupational stressors salient across interviewees’ narratives: (1) Changes to workload, routines, and work-life boundaries; (2) Effects of decarceration policies; and (3) Navigating support and supervision in the face of added health risks and reduced ability to interact with clients. Drawing on studies of occupational stress in community correctional work, w...
Social Science, Surviving Incarceration, May 30, 2014
Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2018
We thematically analysed responses volunteered by 828 of the nearly 9,000 public safety personnel... more We thematically analysed responses volunteered by 828 of the nearly 9,000 public safety personnel (PSP) who participated in an online survey on occupational stress injuries and symptoms. Participants responded to an open-ended optional request for “additional feedback” located at the end of the survey. Salient response themes reveal that, across occupations and organizations, PSP report witnessing, enduring, and encountering extensive trauma, directly and vicariously, acutely and cumulatively. PSP reported effects of such trauma on themselves and their families as including physical (e.g., headaches, back pain, cardiac arrest, digestive symptoms), psychological (e.g., crying, feeling unhappy, living in fear, experiencing anxiety and anger), and social or interpersonal impacts (e.g., social exclusion, avoidance, cynicism towards others). The effects on their families included marital breakdown and relationship dissolution with children, as well as increased familial stress, strain, a...
Experiencing Imprisonment, 2016
Frontiers in Psychology
Public safety personnel are at an elevated risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors relative to t... more Public safety personnel are at an elevated risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors relative to the general public. Correctional workers in particular report some of the highest prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors. To better understand this phenomenon, the current study draws on qualitative, open-ended survey response data (n = 94) that explores three distinct themes (occupational environment, lack of support, social silence) and how entrenched notions of mental health stigma and occupational culture inform how Canadian correctional workers understand their experiences with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. We conclude with a brief discussion of the research and policy implications, with an emphasis on mobilizing efforts to normalize mental health discussion in correctional workplaces, bolstering peer support resources, and collaboration, and assessing the limited organizational supports available to struggling staff.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
In this editorial, we draw on two Canadian cases to interrogate how mass causality events and inv... more In this editorial, we draw on two Canadian cases to interrogate how mass causality events and investigations consume many responders before (e.g., public safety communicators, detachment service assistants), during (e.g., police, fire, paramedics), and after the incident (e.g., coroners, correctional workers, media coverage). Their well-being may suffer from the associated processes and outcomes. In the current article, we focus on the mass causality incident of 2020 in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the investigation following a prisoner death in 2019 in Newfoundland, Canada, to explore how testifying post-incident can be made more palatable for participating public safety personnel (PSP). Specifically, we study how testifying after an adverse event can affect PSP (e.g., recalling, vicarious trauma, triggers) and how best to mitigate the impact of testimony on PSP well-being, with a lens to psychological “recovery” or wellness. We focus here on how to support those who may have to testif...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundResearchers and practitioners have begun to recognize and empirically examine the menta... more BackgroundResearchers and practitioners have begun to recognize and empirically examine the mental health challenges facing public safety personnel (PSP). Empirical results from longitudinal data collection among PSP remains extremely scant, particularly for institutional correctional workers. We designed the current study to assess the mental health of Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) correctional officer recruits (CORs) across time to help clarify potential challenges to or protective factors for mental health across correctional officer (CO) careers.MethodsThe current study uses data from the Canadian Correctional Workers' Wellbeing, Organizations, Roles, and Knowledge (CCWORK) study. The study uses a longitudinal design with self-report surveys administered online prior to CORs beginning the CSC Correctional Training Program. Initial baseline survey data were used to assess demographic information and mental health symptoms endorsed at the outset of the training program....
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Background—Public safety personnel (PSP) are at heightened risk of developing mental health chall... more Background—Public safety personnel (PSP) are at heightened risk of developing mental health challenges due to exposures to diverse stressors including potentially psychologically traumatic experiences. An increased focus on protecting PSP mental health has prompted demand for interventions designed to enhance resilience. While hundreds of available interventions are aimed to improve resilience and protect PSPs’ mental health, research evidence regarding intervention effectiveness remains sparse. Methods—Focus groups with PSP elicited a discussion of psychoeducational program content, preferred modes of program delivery, when such training should occur, and to whom it ought to be targeted. Results—The results of thematic analyses suggest that PSP participants feel that contemporary approaches to improving mental health and resilience are lacking. While welcomed, the provision of sporadic one-off mental health and resilience programs by organizations was seen as insufficient, and the ...
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société
In addition to standard parole conditions, parolees under federal community supervision may be su... more In addition to standard parole conditions, parolees under federal community supervision may be subject to special conditions as determined by the Parole Board of Canada; such conditions are intended to manage factors associated with criminogenic risk and need. One set of special conditions places restrictions on parolees’ social relationships and associations, which can include general restrictions (e.g., non-association with individuals involved in crime) or specific restrictions (e.g., no contact with one’s victim or co-accused). Drawing on case files of women under community supervision (n = 43), we explore how non-association and no contact orders shape community release experiences. We suggest that such conditions can have wide-reaching effects on women’s social lives and reintegration (e.g., in the areas of social support, employment, and housing), thereby, at times, complicating women’s attempts to construct post-institutional lives and identities. We consider how association...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic eve... more Public safety personnel (PSP) are frequently exposed to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs) which can impact mental health. To help mitigate the negative effects of PPTEs, PSP commonly rely on peer support. Peer support generally refers to a wide variety of mental health resources that offer social or emotional assistance to a peer, and in some cases professional assistance. Despite the use of and demand for peer support, there is relatively little empirical evidence regarding effectiveness. The evidence gaps regarding peer support effectiveness may be due, in part, to inadequate guidelines and standards of practice that are publicly supported by a consensus among peer support providers. The current study was designed to explore the current conceptualization and implementation of peer support among Canadian PSP using a document analysis. The results indicate that peer support can be conceptualized via three models (i.e., peer-enabled, peer-led, peer-partnership) and...
Routledge, 2017
Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and pu... more Sex offenders remain the most hated group of offenders, subject to a myriad of regulations and punishments beyond imprisonment, including sex offender registries, chemical and surgical castration, and global positioning electronic monitoring systems. While aspects of their experiences of imprisonment are documented, less is known about how sex offenders experience prison and community corrections spaces – and the implications of their status on their treatment and safety in such environments.
Violence, Sex Offenders, and Corrections critically assesses what is meant by the term ‘sex offender’, and acknowledges that such meanings are socially constructed, situated, and contingent. The book explores the person, crime, penal space, sexual orientation, legislation, and the community experiences of labelled sex offenders as well as the experiences of correctional officers working with said custodial populations. Ricciardelli and Spencer use conceptions of gender and embodiment to analyze how sex offenders are constituted as objects of fear and disgust and as deserving subjects of abjection and violence.
Criminal Justice and Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: The Last Ten Years, 2020
This volume contains papers presented at the Criminal Justice Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: T... more This volume contains papers presented at the Criminal Justice Evidentiary Thresholds in Canada: The Last Ten Years conference, hosted at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. The conference focussed on the evolution of the law of evidence and the sometimes radical transformations it has seen over the last ten years since the seminal decision of R v Grant in 2009, which reoriented the test for exclusion of evidence at trial. The conference explored questions of the conception of knowledge in modern criminal legal proceedings and the changes in the nature of knowing and constructing criminal responsibility over the last ten years as the information age continues to develop the law of evidence. Unparalleled connectivity, state surveillance capabilities, Canada’s commitment to truth and reconciliation with Indigenous communities, and anxieties pertaining to large scale security calamities (like terror events), have altered the landscape in which crime is investigated, and in which evidence is subsequently discovered, and admitted. The conference discussed and unpacked these issues and developed a tremendous body of scholarship which we are proud to present in this volume.
i Continuing the Conversation: Exploring Current Themes in Criminal Justice and the Law
DAVID IRELAND AND RICHARD JOCHELSON
1 Reclaiming Prima Facie Exclusionary Rules in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United States: The Importance of Compensation, Proportionality, and Non-Repetition
KENT ROACH
49 An Empirical and Qualitative Study of Expert Opinion Evidence in Canadian Terrorism Cases: November 2001 to December 2019 MICHAEL NESBITT AND IAN M. WYLIE
111 The Unclear Picture of Social Media Evidence LISA A. SIL VER
155 Cree Law and the Duty to Assist in the Present Day DAVID MILWARD
207 Involuntary Detention and Involuntary Treatment Through the Lens of Sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
RUBY DHAND AND KERRI JOFFE
249 Forensic Mental Health Assessments: Optimizing Input to the Courts HYGIEA CASIANO AND SABRINA DEMETRIOFF
273 Constructing, Assessing, and Managing the Risk Posed by Intoxicants within Federal Prisons
JAMES GACEK AND ROSEMAR Y RICCIARDELLI
295 Mr. Big and the New Common Law Confessions Rule: Five Years in Review
ADELINA IFTENE AND VANESSA L. KINNEAR
357 Judicial Constructions of Responsibility in Revenge Porn: Judicial Discourse in Non-Consensual Intimate Image Distribution Cases – A Feminist Analysis
ALICIA DUECK-READ
391 Harm in the Digital Age: Critiquing the Construction of Victims, Harm, and Evidence in Proactive Child Luring Investigations
LAUREN MENZIE AND TARYN HEPBURN
421 Victim Impact Statements at Canadian Corporate Sentencing ERIN SHELEY