Department of Sociology and Criminology

The Department of Sociology and Criminology actively publishes in a wide variety of academic journals and other scholarly books. The publications listed represent the diverse interests of the faculty and the on-going research that faculty members are engaged in. Please see individual faculty member's pages for more current listings.

Dr. Gene Barrett

Paper Co-authored with Maria Elena Castellano Gonzalez, Jose Ferreira Irmao, Maria Cecilia Godoy Ampuero, Clara Elisa Miranda Vera, Madine Vanderplaat, ‘ ‘The Micro-dynamics of civil Society in Community Resilience and Marginalization. A comparative study of coastal communities in Eastern Canada, Cuba, North-East Brazil and Southern Chile,’ ‘People and the sea Conference V: Living with uncertainty and adapting to change’, Centre of Maritime Research [MARE], University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, July 9-11, 2009.
Barrett, Dr. Gene. Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Co-Authored Book)

Dr. Michele Byers

“Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity,” In Canadian Television: Texts and Contexts, edited by Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah Matheson. Accpeted. Manuscript under review for McGill-Queen’s University Press.
“Putting on Reena Virk: Celebrity, Authorship, and Identity,” In [T]racing Reena Virk, edited by Sheila Batacharya and Mythili Rajiva. Under contract with Canadian Scholar’s Press. Forthcoming 2009.
“Introduction,” In “The CSI Effect:” Television, Crime, and Critical Theory, edited by Michele Byers and Val Johnson. Contract signed with Lexington Books. Reviewed and in revision for resubmissions 2008.
“Dexter,” In The Essential Cult TV Reader, edited by David Lavery. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. Accepted.
“My So-Called life.” In The Essential Cult TV Reader, edited by David Lavery. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. Accepted.
“The CSI Effect:” Television, Crime, and Critical Theory.” Co-edited with Val Johnson. contract signed with Lexington Books, 2009.

Dr. Linda Christiansen-Ruffman

Forthcoming Review of Sherryl Kleinman’s Feminist Fieldwork analysis, volume 51 of Qualitative Research methods Series for Gender and Society.
2008 review of Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos (eds.) gender Realities: Local and Global, Volume 9, Advances in Gender Research in International Sociology Review of Books 23 (5, September): 722-729.
2008 “Nascent, Incipient, embryonic and Ceremonial women’s Studies” Pp. 188-195 in Minds of Our Own: Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Quebec, 1966-76, edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler and Francine Descarries. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
2008 Ritratti di Donne dal Mondo – Esplorazioni femministe di nuovi paradigmi nella vita, nella conoscenze e nella politica. (Italian translation of the 2006 book, Portraits of Women’s Wisdom: Feminists Exploring New Paradigms in Life, Knowledge and Politics by Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Paola Melchiori and Berit As. Treviso: International Feminist University.
2008 “IFUN’s Methodology of Self-Presentations, Bio-Contextuality and its Theoretical and Methdological Implications for Sociology: A Feminist Perspective,” International Sociological Association’s First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain, at Joint Session between Research Committees 32 and 38 entitled Biographical and Feminist Methods in a Global Framework, Sept. 5-8.
2009 “Advancing Education – Women, Environmentalism and Feminism,” paper written for presentation on basis of experiences as co-founder and faculty of International Feminist University Network and Professor of Sociology/Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s University as part of the Reclaiming Higher Education Symposium, organized by The New University Cooperative, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, January 31.
Christiansen-Ruffman, Dr. Linda. ed. The Global Feminist Enlightenment: Women and Social Knowledge. Montreal: International Sociological Association, 1998.
Christiansen-Ruffman, Dr. Linda. Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal. "Feminist Field-Based Learning: Theory and Praxis in the Course of Knowledge Creation." Volume 22.1, 1997.

Dr. Diane Crocker

Crocker, Diane and Val Marie Johnson. (forthcoming) Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty. Accepted for publication by Fernwood Press

Dr. Val Johnson

Val Marie Johnson, "Reading the Criminalization of Poverty" in Crocker & Johnson (eds.) Poverty, Regulation, and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty (Blackpoint, NS: Fernwood Publishing, forthcoming).

Diane Crocker and Val Marie Johnson (eds.), Poverty, Regulation, and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty (Blackpoint, NS: Fernwood Publishing, forthcoming).

Michele Byers and Val Marie Johnson (eds.,), The "CSI Effect:" Television, Crime, and Governance (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009).

Michele Byers and Val Marie Johnson, "CSI as Neoliberalism: An Introduction" in Byers & Johnson (eds.), The "CSI Effect:" Television, Crime, and Governance (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009).

Val Marie Johnson, "'Look for the moral and sex sides of the problem': Investigating Jewishness, Desire and Discipline at Macy's Department Store, 1913." Journal of the History of Sexuality 18, n.3 (September 2009): 457-485.

"'The Rest Can Go to the Devil': Macy's Workers Negotiate Gender, Sex, Class and Race." Journal of Women's History 19, n.1 (March 2007): 32-57.
"'The moral aspects of complex problems': New York City Electoral Campaigns Against Vice and the Incorporation of Immigrants, 1890-1901." Journal of American Ethnic History 25, nos.2-3 (Winter/Spring 2006): 74-106.
"Policing Borders, Citizenship, and Cities: the Gendered and Racialized Inspection & Regulation of Immigrants at the Turn of the Last Century." In Uniform Behavior: Localism, Reform, and Police-Community Relationships in Modern America. Edited by Stacy K. McGoldrick, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, 2006, 25-54.
"Protection, Virtue, and 'the power to detain': the Moral Citizenship of Jewish Women in New York City, 1890-1920." Journal of Urban History 31 (2005): 655-684. Nominated by the JUH for the 2005 Berkshire Conference Article Prize.

Dr. Audrey MacNevin

Invited book chapter: La Mala Vida: Perspectives on Gendered Violence in Peru

Dr. John McMullan

McMullan, J.L. and D. Miller, "All In ! The Commercial Advertising of Off-Shore Gambling on Television". Journal of Gambling Issues, 22, 2008, 230-251.
McMullan, J.L. and D. Miller, "Wins, Wining, and Winners: The Commercial Advertising of Lottery Gambling". Journal of Gambling Studies, 25:3, 2009, pp 273-295.
McMullan, J.L. and D. Miller "Advertising the 'New Fun-tier': Selling Casinos to Consumers " International Journal of Mental Health and Addictions, published online March 2009, 16p.
McMullan, J.L., G. Rigakos, J. Johnson and G. Ozcan "Towards a Critical Political Economy of Police." In Rigakos et al (eds) A General Police System: Political Economy and Security in the Age of Enlightenment. Ottawa: Red Quill Books, forthcoming in 2009.
McMullan, J.L. "Westray: Power, Truth and the Problem of Corporate Crime". In R. Brym (ed.) Society in Question. 6th Edition. Toronto: Nelson Publishing, forthcoming in 2009.
McMullan, J.L. and Perrier, D. "More Thoughts on Gambling Security", forthcoming in International Gambling Studies, 9(3) (2009).
McMullan, J.L. and A. Rege, "Cheating and Cybercrime at Gambling Sites.Com". Alberta Gaming Research Institute, Banff, March 2009.
McMullan, J.L., "Commercial Advertising and Remote Gambling: Messages of Mass Persuasion, Concerns for Responsible Gambling and Directions for Responsible Advertising." Austrian Responsible Gambling Academy, Vienna, May 2009.
McMullan, J.L. and A. Rege, "Online Crime and Internet Gambling". Canadian Association of Gaming Regulators. Halifax, July 2009.
McMullan, J.L. and A. Rege "Hackers, Dot.Cons and Crime Assemblages: CyberCrime, The Internet and the Security of Virtual.Worlds" Canadian Criminal Justice Association, Halifax, October 2009. -
McMullan, J.L. Net-crimes, and the (In)security of Gambling Habitats", Alcohol and Gaming. Commission of Ontario, Toronto, October, 2009.
McMullan, J.L. "Crime Problems and the Problems of Policing in the Online Gambling Industry". Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario, Collingwood, October, 2009.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Towards a Convenience Model of Gaming and its Social Effects in Nova Scotia." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Convenience Gaming and Social Impacts in Nova Scotia." Volumes 1 and 2. Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Review of the Porter Dillon Study: Socio-Economic Impact of Video Lottery Terminals." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Convenience Gambling in Nova Scotia: A Study of Consumer Income and Expenditure Patterns." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
McMullan, Dr. John and Dr. David Perrier. "Poaching and Piscary: A Study of Illegal Fishing and Law Enforcement." Presented with Dr. David Perrier at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 1999.
McMullan, Dr. John. Social and Legal Studies: An International Journal. "The Arresting Eye: Discourse, Surveillance, and Disciplinary Administration in Early English Police Thinking." Volume 7.1. pps. 97-128, 1998.
McMullan, Dr. John. Theoretical Criminology. "Social Surveillance and the Rise of the Police Machine." Volume 2.1. pps. 93-117, 1998.
McMullan, Dr. John. Crimes, Laws, and Communities. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 1997.

Dr. David Perrier

Perrier, Dr. David. "Police Accountability: A Comparative Study of Civilian Oversight Mechanisms in Canada." Presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Convenience Gambling in Nova Scotia: A Study of Consumer Income and Expenditure Patterns." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Review of the Porter Dillon Study: Socio-economic Impact of Video Lottery Terminals." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Convenience Gaming and Social Impacts in Nova Scotia." Volumes 1 and 2. Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
MacDonald, M., Dr. John McMullan, and Dr. David Perrier. Annual Gaming Report. "Towards a Convenience Model of Gaming and its Social Effects in Nova Scotia." Halifax: Alcohol and Gaming Authority, March 2000.
McMullan, Dr. John and Dr. David Perrier. "Poaching and Piscary: A Study of Illegal Fishing and Law Enforcement." Presented with Dr. John McMullan at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, March 1999.
Perrier, Dr. David and Joel Pink. From Crime to Punishment. Fourth Edition. Toronto: Carswell Publishing Company Limited, 1999.
McMullan, Dr. John. Crimes, Laws, and Communities. "Poaching vs. the Law: The Social Organisation of Illegal Fishing." By: Dr. John McMullan and Dr. David Perrier. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 1997.
Perrier, Dr. David. "Processing Public Complaints Against the Police in Nova Scotia, Canada: A Critical Review." Presented at the Third Biennial Conference on International Perspectives on Crime, Justice, and Public Order, Dublin, Ireland, June 1996.

Dr. Stephen Schneider

The History of Organized Crime in Canada. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons (not peer-reviewed). Forthcoming in January 2008.
Money Laundering in Canada: Chasing Dirty and Dangerous and Dollars. (Co-authored with Margaret Beare). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (peer-reviewed), April 2007
Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for Community. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (peer-reviewed), February, 2007
“Privatising economic crime enforcement: Exploring the role of private sector investigative agencies in combating money laundering.” Policing and Society. 16(3), 285-313, 2006
“Testing the Limits of Solicitor-Client Privilege: Lawyers, Money Laundering, and Suspicious Transaction Reporting.” Journal of Money Laundering Control. 10(1), 27-47, 2006

Dr. Evangelia Tastsoglou

E. Tastsoglou, V. Preston: “Gender, Immigration and Employment Integration: Where We Are and What We Still Need to Know” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal. Vol. 30.1 (Fall) 2005, pp. 46-59.
E. Tastsoglou, B. Miedema: “'Working Much Harder and Always Having to Prove Yourself': Immigrant Women's Labour Force Experiences in the Canadian Maritimes”, in Gender Realities: Local and Global, edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, special volume of Advances in Gender Research, Elsevier / JAI Press, 2005, Vol. 9, pp. 201-233.
A. Dobrowolsky, E. Tastsoglou, “Crossing Boundaries and Making Connections” in E. Tastsoglou and A. Dobrowolsky (eds.) Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections. Ashgate Publishers, 2006, pp. 1-35.
E. Tastsoglou: “Gender, Migration and Citizenship: Immigrant Women and the Politics of Belonging in the Canadian Maritimes” in E. Tastsoglou and A. Dobrowolsky (eds.) in Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections. Ashgate Publishers, 2006, pp. 201-230.
E. Tastsoglou and A. Dobrowolsky, eds. Women, Migration and Citizenship: Making Local, National and Transnational Connections. Ashgate Publishers, 2006, 258 pages.
E. Tastsoglou, J. Hadjicostandi: ``Never Outside the Labour Market but Always Outsiders: Female Migrant Workers in Greece'', special issue on in Gender and International Migration: Focus on Greece of the Greek Review of Social Research, edited by E. Tastsoglou and L. Maratou-Alipranti, published by the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Athens: Greece. Vol. 110, No A (Spring) 2003, pp. 189-220.
E. Tastsoglou, L. Maratou-Alipranti (eds): Special Issue on in Gender and International Migration: Focus on Greece of the Greek Review of Social Research, published by the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Athens: Greece. Vol. 110, No A (Spring) 2003, pp. 320.
E. Tastsoglou, L. Maratou-Alipranti: "Gender and International Migration: Conceptual, Substantive and Methodological Issues", in Gender and International Migration: Focus on Greece of the Greek Review of Social Research, published by the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Athens: Greece. Vol. 110, No A (Spring) 2003, pp. 5-22.
E. Tastsoglou, B. Miedema: "Immigrant Women and Community Development in the Canadian Maritimes: Outsiders Within?", The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 28(2), June 2003.
E. Tastsoglou: "Race and the Politics of Personal Relationships: A Synthesis and New Directions for Research with Reference to Black Canadian Women," in Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 93-111.
Miedema, B. and E. Tastsoglou. "'But Where Are You From, Originally?': Immigrant Women and Integration in the Maritimes." Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal.,Volume 24.2. pp. 82-91, Spring/Summer 2000.
Mirchandani, Kiran and E. Tastsoglou. "Toward a Diversity Beyond Tolerance." Studies in Political Economy, Volume 61. pp. 49-78, Spring 2000.
E. Tastsoglou: "Mapping the Unknowable: The Challenges and Rewards of Cultural, Political, and Pedagogical Border Crossing.", in Calliste, Agnes, and George Sefa Dei. eds. Power, Knowledge, and Anti-Racism Education, Halifax: Ferwood Publishing, 2000, pp. 98-121.
E. Tastsoglou: "Immigrant Women and the Social Construction of Ethnicity: Three Generations of Greek Immigrant Women in Ontario.", in V. Demos and M. Segal. eds. Advances in Gender Research, JAI Press, 1997.
E. Tastsoglou: "The Margin at the Centre: Greek Immigrant Women in Ontario", Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 29, 1, 1997, pp. 119-160.

Dr. Madine VanderPlaat

Hayes, Virginia E. and E. Lynne Young. eds. Transforming Health Promotion Practice: Concepts, Issues, and Applications. "Emancipatory Politics and Health Promotion Practice: The Health Professional as Social Activist." By: Dr. Madine VanderPlaat. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company. (Forthcoming)
Schwartz, Mary Ann, Barbara Scott, and Dr. Madine VanderPlaat. Sociology Making Sense of the Social World. Canadian Edition. Toronto: Pearson Education Canada, 2000.
VanderPlaat, Dr. Madine. Qualitative Health Research. "Locating the Feminist Scholar: Relational Empowerment and Social Activism." Volume 9.6. pps. 773-785, 1999.
VanderPlaat, Dr. Madine. Canadian Journal of Sociology. "Empowerment, Emancipation, and Health Promotion Policy." Volume 23.1, 1998.
VanderPlaat, Dr. Madine. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. "Emancipatory Politics, Evaluation and Government Policy." Volume 12.2, 1997.

Dr. Henry Veltmeyer

"Multinationals on Trial: Foreign Investment Matters." London: Ashgate. (Coauthor James Petras) Translated into Spanish (Madrid, Editorial Popular; Portuguese (Petrópolis, Editorial Vozes) and German (Berlin: Zambon). 2007.
"What is Globalization?" Vol. 1. Critical National Perspectives. Vol. 2. Critical Regional Perspectives. Basingstoke (London): Palgrave Macmillan. Coeditor Paul Bowles. 2007
"Illusions and Opportunities: Civil Society in the Quest for Social Change." Halifax: Fernwood / London: Zed Books. 2007
"The Politics of Change in Latin America." Toronto: Broadview Press. 2007.
"Maskesi Düsürülen Küresellesme: Yirmi Birinci Yüzylda Emperyalizm." Istanbul: Mephisto.Coauthor James Petras. 2007.
"The Standard of Living Debate in Development Policy," Critical Sociology, Vol. 3: 180-209. Coauthor J. Petras. 2007
"El Banco Mundial y su guerra contra la pobreza y los pobres." Theomai, Nú. 1.. 2007.
"Social Movements and the State: Political Power Dynamics in Latin America." Pp.239-260 in Imperialism, Neoliberalism and Social Struggles in Latin America, edited by R.A. Della Buono and José Bell Lara. Leiden/Boston: Brill. Coauthor J. Petras. 2007.
"La Modernidad de las Campesinos Latinoamericanos." Bolivia: Latinamerica crea, ed. María Lujan Leiva. Buenos Aires: Desde la Gente. Ed Instiuto Movilzador de Fodos Cooperativos, pp.51-62. Coathor James Petras. 2007.
"Latin Amerika ve Baska Bir Kalkinma." Istanbul: Kalkedon Yainlan. 2006.
"Juicio a las Multinacionales." Buenos Aires: Editorial Lumen. Coauthor J. Petras. 2006
"Banking on Poverty: Assessing the World Bank’s War on Poverty." Canadian Journal of International Development Studies, Vol. XXVIII. Coauthor A. O’Malley. 2006.
"Latin America’s Social Movements and the Political Dynamics of Social Change." In New Social Movements and Democratization in the Americas, edited by Jorge Nef, Wilder Robles and Harry Vanden. University of South Florida Press. 2006.