Affiliated Faculty and Researchers
Dr. Luca Berardi
Dr. Berardi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University. A criminologist and urban ethnographer by training, his research focuses on the relationship between social inequality, violence, and victimization in social housing and criminal justice institutions. His doctoral work involved 5-years of ethnographic fieldwork in a Toronto social housing development plagued by gun violence. More recently, he has collaborated on the University of Alberta Prison Project, where his work centres on the victim-offender overlap among federally incarcerated people, the experiences of loved ones of incarcerated people during the COVID-19 pandemic, and an examination of the barriers to prisoner re-entry and re-integration. He is co-editor (with Drs. Bucerius and Haggerty) of the Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice (2022) and his journal articles appear in the British Journal of Criminology, Qualitative Sociology, Social Science & Medicine, Policing & Society, City & Community, and Canadian Journal of Sociology.
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Dr. Holly Campeau
Dr. Holly Campeau is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. She specializes in the intersection between criminology, cultural sociology, and sociology of law. She is also Senior Researcher with the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, focusing on justice reform. Her research involves fieldwork and qualitative methods to examine the cultural structures and processes underlying law, policing and criminal justice. She currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant to expand a study of police-citizen interactions from the perspective of both officers and arrested individuals.
Dr. Campeau received her PhD (2016) in Sociology from the University of Toronto, where she split her time between the Department of Sociology and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Her doctoral dissertation work (supported by SSHRC and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship) received numerous awards, including the Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award, and best paper awards from both the Canadian Sociological Association and American Sociological Association (Section on Culture).
Campeau has published multiple articles focusing on a range of topics, including police culture, organizational change, courts and police-citizen encounters. Her work is published in American Journal of Cultural Sociology, British Journal of Criminology, Policing & Society, Social Problems, and The Sociological Quarterly
Dr. Carolyn Greene
Dr. Greene is an Assistant Professor of Public Safety at Wilfrid Laurier University. She received her PhD in Criminology from the University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Carolyn has an active and expansive research program, undertaking extensive qualitative and quantitative studies on public perceptions of the criminal justice system, drugs and drug use, victimization, and experiences of homelessness. Currently, she is involved in studies exploring immigrants’ perceptions of police in Canada and co-leads, with Drs. Marta-Marika Urbanik and Katharina Maier, the largest socio-criminological study of homelessness in Canadian history. She is committed to research with impact, regularly sharing her findings with stakeholders, government officials, law enforcement, community organizations, advocacy groups, and the media. Her research is also featured in leading academic journals in the field, including the International Journal of Drug Policy, the British Journal of Criminology, and Social Problems.
Dr. William Scultz
William J. Schultz is an assistant professor at MacEwan University’s Department of Sociology. His PhD work (University of Alberta, 2023) was funded by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (2018), the Vanier Canada scholarships (2018), the SSHRC Bombardier scholarships (2018) and the Killam Trust (2021). His interests generally centre on life experiences in prisons, specializing in research on correctional officer work cultures, informal prison economies, incarcerated parenthood, gang membership and ideologically motivated extremist recruitment in prison. He also conducts research on gun and gang problems in Alberta. Will has published research in international journals including Criminology, The British Journal of Criminology, Health and Justice, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice and Behaviour, as well as op-eds and interviews in outlets including the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Toronto Star. He is also a former correctional officer.
Justin EC Tetrault, PhD
Email: justin_tetrault@sfu.ca
Twitter: @ECtetrault
Research Gate
Justin Tetrault is an assistant professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He received his PhD in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Alberta.
Justin's research interests include political movements and extremism, Indigenous justice, qualitative methods, and prisons and re-entry. His current research centres on two distinct projects. The first involves his work on the University of Alberta Prison Project, where the research team interviews incarcerated individuals and staff to gain insight into their experiences within the prison system. He has published papers on topics such as racism and prison gangs, Indigenous people’s experiences with cultural programming, and he is currently studying re-entry experiences and healing lodges. As a Red River Métis person, Justin is dedicated to working alongside community members and practitioners to improve cultural supports for justice-involved Indigenous people.
The second area of his research examines populism, extremism, and right-wing nationalist movements. Justin is currently collaborating with Dr. Sandra Bucerius on a study of German populism, involving interviews with AfD and BSW party supporters. He also conducted his dissertation research on Canada's right-wing nationalist movement, where he interviewed on-the-ground activists. In this area, he has published on "mainstreaming" of the far-right, the sociology of hate, the problems with counterterrorism research, and unhoused Indigenous people's experiences with hate crime.