Associate Professor, Criminology (@UofRegina). 🌿⚖️🏳️🌈 Postdoc Fellow (@MUNSociology). RT =/= endorsement.
Regina, Saskatchewan
Joined October 2011
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Slight diversion from regular academic/professor posting to let you know I proposed to my partner - and he said yes! 💍✨
#loveislove #yqr #engaged
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Saskatchewan Party, NDP neck and neck as half of residents say it’s time for a change
abacusdata.ca/saskatchewan-p…
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What happens when what we believe to be true doesn’t align with what is actually true?
Well, for 34 people in Canada it has led to over 353 years wrongfully behind bars.
I unpack this conversation on my TEDx talk, which just went live! Check it out:
youtu.be/cQJZ5-jI4t4
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Thrilled to share that #RainbowCaptives has been published with @UBCPress. This work illuminates the ways queer identities are policed, pathologized, and punished through state control. Thank you to my colleague @JamesGacek for this incredible opportunity lnkd.in/gAPzturK
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🔵Antarctic krill’s survival is increasingly being threatened by industrial fishery and habitat changes caused by climate change - how do states enable and/or fail to prevent large-scale depletion of Antarctic krill by corporate actors #GreenCriminology
🔗doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.4544
Just received advanced copies of my forthcoming edited collection with Richard Jochelson (@robsonhall @robsoncrim) - Rainbow Captives (@UBCPress) is almost here! ⚖️🏳️🌈
Make sure to pick up a copy Oct 1! Tell your friends and colleagues! Recommend to your libraries!
@UofRegina
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Excited to announce that my supervisor and I’s most recent work has been published!
This study takes a deep dive into the characteristics of Canadian inmates who expressed a reluctancy to be released from prison.
The full study can be found here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wil…
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📍 Regina is ready to welcome you!
Save the date! The 2027 CIPSRT Conference is coming to Regina, SK, on May 4–5, 2027.
In the heart of the Canadian Prairies, we'll bring together first responders, their families, researchers, clinicians, leaders, and other public safety personnel from across Canada to connect, learn, and collaborate.
📣 Follow CIPSRT and stay tuned for registration and the Call for Presenters. 📣
#2027CIPSRTConference #MentalHealthMatters #PublicSafety
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📍 Regina est prête à vous accueillir!
Réservez la date! La Conférence de l’ICRTSP 2027 se tiendra à Regina, en Saskatchewan, les 4 et 5 mai 2027.
Au cœur des Prairies canadiennes, nous réunirons des premiers intervenants, leurs familles, des chercheurs, des cliniciens, des dirigeants et d’autres membres du personnel de la sécurité publique de partout au Canada pour tisser des liens, apprendre et collaborer.
📣 Suivez l’ICRTSP et ne manquez pas le début des inscriptions et l’appel aux conférenciers. 📣
#ConférenceICRTSP2027 #SécuritéPublique #LaSantéMentaleCompte
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Older adults who have ever been behind bars are expected to live nearly 6 fewer years than similar peers who have never been incarcerated.
Mass incarceration is shaving years off people's lives:
ALT Chart of arrows showing that formerly incarcerated men and women aged 51+ have a life expectancy of six fewer years than people without a history of incarceration.
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How can you be in charge of our health care system but not be tracking how many doctors we have both leaving and coming to the province?
ctvnews.ca/regina/article/pr…
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BOOK GIVEAWAY: Last week was my birthday. I turned 21 (again...if you round generously).
To mark the occasion, I'm giving away one copy of my new book, Missing Persons: Beyond Serial Killers and Unexplained Disappearances.
The response has been so positive. The first print run sold out within a matter of days, which I suppose suggests that at least some people read it. I appreciate everyone who bought a copy, mentioned it, or quietly tolerated me talking about it. And so I'd like to give back.
To enter, leave a comment on this post. That's it that's all. Then I'II select a winner at random in one week from today.
Please share with your networks to reach the police, SAR, mispers, practitioner, academic and other communities to which I owe a great deal for their support.
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Congratulations to @URFacofEd's @DrMarcSpooner on receiving the 2026 Public Education Advocacy Award from the Canadian Teachers’ Federation @CTFFCE.
Nominated by @SaskTeachersFed, Dr. Spooner was recognized for his commitment to #publiceducation, research & advocacy. #GoFarUofR
New article out! 🚨
@Doc_Justice1 and I explore some thoughts on aging people in custody and the (carceral) logics and parallels between the prison-as-institution and other forms of geriatric confinement in society ⚖️
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
@UofRegina @UofRArts
Interviewed by @CBC SK regarding the recent erroneously releases of individuals from provincial custody! Read it here:
cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatche…
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@UofRegina @UofRArts
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Congratulations to Dr. @RaymondBBlake on receiving the Governor General's International Award in Canadian Studies! 👏
This prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of Canadian Studies internationally through research, teaching and outreach. – at Regina, Saskatchewan
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Medical Assistance in Dying is about choice and trust.
It is ultimately a celebration of life for many who make that fundamental decision.
It is about agency, autonomy, and compassion, which is why the vast majority of Canadians fully support it.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Incarcerated people have more chronic medical conditions than ever.
Yet healthcare behind bars is blocked by expensive copays, limited resources, & understaffing – creating a situation in which each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy.
ALT Graph showing that multiple chronic medical conditions are increasingly common in state and federal prisons.
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"The hardest part about being in prison during a heat wave is like any other time: We completely lack control of our surroundings. We can make no attempt at comfort and we have no outlet to voice concern."
What summer heat means for people behind bars:
prisonjournalismproject.org/…
