Dr. Luca Berardi

Dr. Luca Berardi
McMaster University

Email: berardil@mcmaster.ca
Twitter: @Berardi__L
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Luca Berardi is an assistant professor of sociology and social psychology at McMaster University. He completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is a criminologist and urban ethnographer interested in social inequality, violence, victimization, and incarceration in Canada. Luca’s dissertation is a 5-year ethnographic study of gun violence, victimization, and resilience in a Toronto social housing development. He is passionate about community-based research and is currently working on a project examining opioids and the victimization experiences of incarcerated men and women in Canadian federal prisons.