On Crime and Punishment

As an urban ethnographer and qualitative researcher, Dr. Bucerius is interested in issues pertaining to prisons; victim/offender overlap; immigration and crime; radicalization; and the opioid crisis. Dr. Bucerius holds numerous research grants, including a SSHRC Partnership grant. Her contributions have been recognized through a number of major awards, including the 2016 UofA Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, given to two faculty members annually 3 from across the University who are in the early stages of their careers, enjoy a reputation for original research, and show outstanding promise. She has also won a Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Teaching Award (across all ranks) as well as the Faculty of Arts Research Award (Assistant Professor). Her ethnography on drug dealers won 2nd place in the Deutscher Studienpreis Koerberstiftung competition in 2009 - the highest national award for social sciences dissertations in Germany. An article based on this research "What else should I do?" published in the Journal of Drug Issues in 2007, was awarded the Honorary Mention of the Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. She is the co-editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook series in Criminology (alongside Michael Tonry). She is the Director of the University of Alberta prison project (UAPP), the largest mixed methods study on Canadian prisons in the history of Canadian criminology and examines how fentanyl and carfentanyl have changed the prison experience for prisoners and guards; whether prisons are spaces in which radicalization occurs and spreads; prison gangs; and the victimoffender overlap. In a second project, she is looking at how police officers perceive the risk of synthetic opioids. Dr. Bucerius has held several research agreements with Correctional Service Canada, Public Safety, Justice Alberta, and the Edmonton and Calgary Police Service, including, with the new-formed EPS community accelerator unit. Her five-year ethnography with drug dealers Unwanted - Muslim Immigrants, Dignity and Drug Dealing appeared with Oxford University Press in 2014 and received glowing reviews in many leading academic journals. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Ethnicity, Crime and Immigration and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Her numerous journal articles appear in the British Journal of Criminology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, among others. Dr. Bucerius serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Criminology – the flagship journal of the discipline – and as executive member of the Canadian Research Network on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS). She is also TSAS's Publication Editor

Dr. Kevin Haggerty talks with Dr. Luca Berardi of McMaster University and Joanna Kehayas about the experience of having loved ones in prison during the Covid pandemic.

A group of Scholars from Ottawa joins Kevin Haggerty to talk about Covid and Canadian Prisons. Of special interest are how prison life change during the pandemic and how that affected people living in them.

Justin Piché of the University of Ottawa returns to update Kevin on the state of Covid in Canadian Prisons.

Dr. Kevin Haggerty talks with Ph.D candidate and Trudeau Fellow William Schultz about his research on Canadian prisons, the challenges of Covid-19 in the prison environment, and the role of Covid in triggering an unplanned experiment in decarceration.

Dr. Kevin Haggerty talks with Queen's University's Dr. Nicole Myers about her work on the changes and challenges of bail hearings in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic. Bail hearings have been transformed by the inability to be in court in person and this has affected the ability of legal counsel, defendants, and scholars to fully understand and study the process.

Kevin Haggarty talks with University of Ottawa's Justin Piche about his work to oppose the construction of new prisons in Ontario, Covid 19 and the Canadian Prison system and the current moment and the future of prison abolition in Canada.

Dr. Oriola argues that following the trial of Dereck Chauvin the trial by jury as we know it may be obsolete in pluralistic, multicultural societies. He advocates for a fundamental rethink based on the Japanese model.