Fighting prison expansion is a social justice issue, as the prison is a key site reproducing and compounding social marginalization. On 27 August 2020, the Government of Ontario announced the Eastern Region Strategy, a series of new prison infrastructure projects, including the Eastern Ontario Correctional Complex, a 235-bed prison to be built in the small town of Kemptville. Drawing on five years of research and of activism by the authors working with Kemptville residents as part of the Coalition Against the Proposed Prison, this study examines the long and short-term contexts from which the prison plan emerged. To this end, the paper brings into focus four social forces that shaped the emergence and contours of the Ontario government’s recent prison building strategy, including settler colonialism, capitalist restructuring, penal reform, and abolitionist organizing. We end with a discussion of the need for anti-prison organizing that features a broad range of groups and individuals with different points of entry into social justice struggles working together to oppose prison expansion.

This article contributes to the debate concerning pension financialization and how countries are adapting their pension systems to respond to demographic ageing. We do so by examining the statutory pension systems of Canada and Finland, which diverge interestingly from current international trends. The Canadian and Finnish public pension schemes reflect two tendencies often associated with pension financialization: an increasing reliance on financial markets and an investment policy with a diversified asset allocation. However, unlike in many other countries, this has not resulted in heightened individual risks in old‐age income security caused by a shift from defined benefit to defined contribution pensions – an otherwise common trend internationally.

This chapter discusses the contradictory positions of the insurance industry in the era of climate change. Although insurers were some of the earliest to sound the alarm about climate change, the contradictory positions held by the insurance industry compromise its potential to act as guardian of climate security. We outline the industry's roles in relation to climate change as compensator, resistor and mitigator, facilitator, and investor. Private insurers capitalise on climate risks by profiting from coverage of weather-related uncertainties, although risks driven by climate change that are too catastrophic may also threaten their balance sheets. Insurers are also experts on the risks of climate change and active in attempts to reduce, adapt to, and mitigate it, although these efforts are sometimes constrained and selectively focussed by the commercial imperative within the industry. On the other hand, the insurance industry also supports and facilitates fossil fuel industries in numerous ways, thus contributing to the same risks they are insuring and working against. Insurers are also some of the biggest investors in fossil fuel, further contributing to climate change. We conclude by briefly exploring what members of the public and policy makers might do in promoting action on global warming, given the insurance industry's contradictory roles.

Poor conditions of confinement and human rights violations have been commonplace at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC) since it opened in the early 1970s. Recently, the deplorable treatment of provincial prisoners at OCDC has been documented in reports by the Ontario Ombudsperson, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Independent Review of Ontario Corrections, the Community Advisory Board (established in 2014), the OCDC Task Force (established in 2016) and coronial inquests. Despite the avalanche of recommendations flowing from these reform-oriented interventions, pressing human rights issues persist at the facility—ranging from inedible food to inadequate health care that has contributed to preventable deaths in custody. It is in this context that members of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project launched the Jail Accountability & Information Line (JAIL). This article explores some of the insights emerging from the first year of the hotline's prisoner solidarity work, in order to contribute to knowledge on ongoing struggles to reform and abolish incarceration. In so doing, our analysis provides tools that prison justice and abolitionist organizers can use to establish new JAIL hotlines in other localities, or other inside-outside collaborative initiatives, with the goal of making life more bearable in carceral settings, while contributing to the long-term aim of ending human caging.

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologieVolume 56, Issue 2 p. 274-291 COMMITTING SOCIOLOGY Teaching, Supervising, and Supporting PhD Students: Identifying Issues, Addressing Challenges, Sharing Strategies Janet Siltanen, Corresponding Author Janet Siltanen janet.siltanen@carleton.ca Carleton UniversityJanet Siltanen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S1P3. E-mail: janet.siltanen@carleton.caSearch for more papers by this authorXiaobei Chen, Xiaobei Chen Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorAaron Doyle, Aaron Doyle Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorAlexis Shotwell, Alexis Shotwell Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Janet Siltanen, Corresponding Author Janet Siltanen janet.siltanen@carleton.ca Carleton UniversityJanet Siltanen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada K1S1P3. E-mail: janet.siltanen@carleton.caSearch for more papers by this authorXiaobei Chen, Xiaobei Chen Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorAaron Doyle, Aaron Doyle Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this authorAlexis Shotwell, Alexis Shotwell Carleton UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 May 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12239Citations: 2 The authors thank Tracey Adams for her support in writing this piece, and especially acknowledge the late Francois Dépelteau who expressed great interest in the idea of initiating a discipline-wide discussion about graduate pedagogy and encouraged our efforts in helping to do so. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume56, Issue2May 2019Pages 274-291 RelatedInformation

The media are very powerful institutions, yet the nature of media influence is often too narrowly conceived. There has been massive study of how individual media products may help shape the views of audiences. This chapter also considers three other forms of influence. First, media products influence each other's meanings. People do not consume them in isolation but together. Second, mass media shape the practices of other institutions. For example, television does not simply record events in the criminal justice system. Finally, some theorists argues that media are not just implicated in short-term opinion formation, but in more profound longterm social and cultural shifts. The chapter argues that the popular reality TV program "Cops" displays all four types of influence. It explores how, while "Cops" purports to show "raw reality", it offers a very particular vision of criminal justice. The chapter shows how sometimes police carry videocameras during their operations, simultaneously making arrests and producing their own television shows.

When it comes to a masters or PhD program, most graduate students don’t deliberately set out to fail. Yet, of the nearly 500,000 people who start a graduate program each year, up to half will never complete their degree. Books abound on acing the admissions process, but there is little on what to do once the acceptance letter arrives. Veteran graduate directors Kevin D. Haggerty and Aaron Doyle have set out to demystify the world of advanced education. Taking a wry, frank approach, they explain the common mistakes that can trip up a new graduate student and lay out practical advice about how to avoid the pitfalls. Along the way they relate stories from their decades of mentorship and even share some slip-ups from their own grad experiences.

The study of the specific problems of insurance ethics remains relatively undeveloped, either from sociological or business ethical perspectives. More recently, sociologists and socio-legal scholars have given a sustained new wave of attention to insurance (see, e.g., Baker and Simon 2002; Baker 2010; Ericson et al. 2003; Doyle and Ericson 2010) while the particular problems of insurance ethics have also received fresh scrutiny (see, e.g., Flanagan et al. 2007). These disciplinary approaches begin to meet in the collection of articles in this special issue, which examine diverse contexts and dimensions of insurance business ethics at both empirical and normative levels. Insurance arrangements are very important to consider from an ethical perspective, as they not only reconfigure risk but also reshape ethical responsibilities (Baker 2002; Brinkmann 2005). As Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Jyrri Liukko explore in their article in this special issue, private insurance creates an important kind of social solidarity among those in the risk pool, although this solidarity is not necessarily evident to or understood by the insured; such solidarity was perhaps clearer to participants in early forms of insurance featuring small pools of people in relatively closely knit communities sharing risks, compared to the much vaster and more institutionally complex forms that insurance often takes today. Yet, insurance remains a crucial element of the contemporary social fabric, though this may be taken for granted by many, and is perhaps most evident to those who cannot afford adequate coverage. Indeed, micro-insurance in developing countries, as discussed by Ralf Radermacher and Johannes Brinkmann in their article, represents something of a return to the historical communitarian roots of insurance. On the other hand, several of the articles in this volume might be seen as beginning to suggest that the core values that were more easily evident in early, simpler forms of insurance may have sometimes become corroded as a result of the contemporary ways in which insurance is now organized. For example, Bill Lesch and Johannes Brinkmann raise important questions in their article about the responsibility of insurers as co-contributors to problems of insurance fraud. It is also important to note also that insurance ethics is not just about insurance: insurance also governs (Ericson et al. 2003) and reshapes responsibility among insured individuals and organizations in a huge variety of other social and institutional settings, for example, playing a crucial role in the evolution and direction of tort law as Christian Lahnstein argues in his piece, or facilitating risky technological megaprojects like the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil venture in the Gulf of Mexico, as Alexandros Kyrtsis examines in his article. Gathered at the world headquarters of Munich Re, near the famous English Gardens in Munich, for 2 days in February 2011, a small and interdisciplinary group of academics and insurance professionals from seven countries grappled with ethical questions in diverse contexts of the world of insurance. The articles that make up this special issue were all presented at that workshop. The remainder of this short introduction gives a quick overview of the issues that are addressed in each article, and then briefly ends with a call for dialog and future work to start to distill more general principles of insurance business ethics. The articles that follow are wide-ranging but can be broadly situated in three groups. A first group of articles addresses the particular ethical challenges facing different A. Doyle (&) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada e-mail: aaron_doyle@carleton.ca

AbstractCriminology lost a world leader with the death of Richard Ericson in 2007. Ericson was one of the most pre-eminent criminologists of the last forty years and one of the most cited. This chapter uses Ericson's work as a case study to demonstrate the potential for criminology to reach widely in its contributions to knowledge, transcending conventional boundaries. It responds to the editors' question ‘How should criminology be done?’ by examining how Ericson's work pushed the boundaries of conventional criminology outward into new substantive areas of research, towards interdisciplinarity, and towards making broader theoretical contributions that transcend the particular empirical concern with crime and criminal justice.

is a professor of business ethics at the BI Norwegian Business School, and head of ROFF, see http://www.bi.no/roff, with the interface between business ethics, corporate responsibility, risk

Introduction: Questions for a New Generation of Criminologists / Aaron Doyle and Dawn Moore Part 1: Canadian Criminology in the Twenty-First Century 1 The Dilemmas of Doing Criminology in Quebec: Curse or Opportunity? / Benoit Dupont 2 Reconciling Spectres: Promises of Criminology / Bryan R. Hogeveen 3 Commodifying Canadian Criminology: Applied Criminology Programs and the Future of the Discipline / Laura Huey Part 2: Expanding the Criminological Focus 4 Corporate and White-Collar Crime: Reflections on the Study of Financial Wrongdoing in the Era of Neo-Liberalism / James W. Williams 5 Criminological Nightmares: A Canadian Criminology of Genocide / Andrew Woolford 6 Power and Resistance in Community-Based Sentencing / Diana Young 7 Stigma and Marginality: Gender Experiences of Families of Male Prisoners in Canada / Stacey Hannem Part 3: Theory and Praxis 8 Reimagining a Feminist Criminology / Gillian Balfour 9 The Promise of Critical Realism: Toward a Post-Empiricist Criminology / George S. Rigakos and Jon Frauley 10 The Right to the City on Trial / Lisa Freeman 11 Anarcho-Abolition: A Challenge to Conservative and Liberal Criminology / Kevin Walby Index