Justin Piché
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 155456 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Justin Piché |
| NOMBRES | Justin |
| APELLIDO | Piché |
| FIRMA | PICHÉ J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9673-400X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Resistance at the Carceral Precipice
How Settler Colonialism, Capitalist Restructuring, Penal Reform and Anti-Prison Organizing are Shaping Prison Expansion in Eastern Ontario
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 workin…
Feeling the Carceral
Le « changement de profil » des personnes incarcérées et l’expansion de l’État carcéral canadien
Le « changement de profil » des personnes incarcérées et l’expansion de l’État carcéral canadien. Un article de la revue Criminologie (L’épreuve des profilages et des discriminations) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
‘Sadly, my group was “hanged” at the end of the evening’
Escape rooms are a popular new form of leisure and amusement globally, including in North American cities. Based on a thematic and discourse analysis of online content, we examine ten carceral-themed escape room operations in the United States and Canada. Drawing on theories of cultural power and neoliberalism, we analyze the messages conveyed by site operators about the deservingness of life, freedom and justice for imprisoned people. Contributi…
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) invites submissions for a special issue on the theme of "Emotions and Carceral Spaces".Experiences of imprisonment or living and working in various carceral settings are isolating, punitive, and at times traumatic, all of which infl uence the emotional experiences of both prisoners and staff .Carceral spaces are neither uniform nor orderly, and the way emotions are felt and expressed diff ers signifi cant…
From Systems of Abuse to Circles of Care
Profiling and the Canadian Carceral State | Les profilages et l’État carcérale canadien
The Canadian Carceral State routinely engages in profi ling of people pushed to the margins by colonialism, racism and white supremacy, capitalism and classism, patriarchy and heteronormativity, ableism, and other violent structures.This is evident in who is targeted, harmed, and killed by policing, imprisonment, immigration, child apprehension, health, social services and assistance, and other carceral institutions.The Journal of Prisoners on Pr…
The Life and Work of Sarah Speight
I fi rst met Sarah in the spring of 2018 when she was looking to get involved in a group that began its work over a decade ago called the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, which aims to reduce the use and harms of policing and imprisonment, as well as build safer communities through research on and advocacy for alternatives.At the time, Sarah was new to Ottawa and, with a background of research and advocacy on overdose prevention …
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Profiling and the Canadian Carceral State | Les profilages et l’État carcéral canadien
The Canadian Carceral State routinely engages in profi ling of people pushed to the margins by colonialism, racism and white supremacy, capitalism and classism, patriarchy and heteronormativity, ableism, and other violent structures.This is evident in who is targeted, harmed, and killed by policing, imprisonment, immigration, child apprehension, health, social services and assistance, and other carceral institutions.The Journal of Prisoners on Pr…
‘A prison is no place for a party’
This paper explores a case study of the struggle over the cultural meanings of charity and imprisonment related to United Way’s 2019 Rockin’ The Big House fundraising concert in partnership with Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and the City of Kingston at Kingston Penitentiary. Contributing to literature at the intersection of penality, prison tourism, and the charitable sector, we examine how staging authenticity and fostering penal spectato…
Carceral-capital-charitable politics in Kingston, Ontario
(Beyond) Life in Prison
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons in an Age of Disruption
O bserving the rapid rise in digital technologies and automation, along with their devastating impacts on our ability to make sense of the world and our place in it, the late French philosopher Bernard Stiegler (2019) argued that we live in an "age of disruption" that is disorienting and disempowering. While his principal concern was the disruptive impact of the rise and further entrenchment of "computational capitalism", the last few years have …
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
Imagining a World Beyond the Prison Pandemic
Emotions and Carceral Spaces
On Desistance and Resistance
Covid‐19 and views of imprisonment in a sample of prison tourists
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed large segments of the global population to the experience of restricted freedoms. In Canada, COVID-19-related measures led to a decrease of mobility within the country, prohibiting access to public and private spaces for prolonged periods of time. This study addresses the effects of the pandemic and related restrictions on views of imprisonment, drawing on a sample of individuals who took part in a tour of the HI…
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums
There are dozens of public police museums located across Canada that memorialize the country’s history of law enforcement and criminalization. Drawing from fieldwork at these sites, we explore the representational devices used to curate police museum displays. Invoking Stuart Hall’s work on representation and Othering, we examine how gun displays at Canadian police museums are organized to minimize the harm that police interventions with guns cau…
Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums
There is little scholarship on museums and heritage sites that memorialize courts, judges, and law. Engaging with literatures on penal history and law and culture, we explore representations of law and power in court museums across Canada. Based on observations and interviews, we examine the meanings of the artifacts curated at court museum sites. In a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission context, where heritage sites have been called upon to…
Inonder l’espace médiatique, contester le manque de transparence de l’État
Il y a eu des différences importantes concernant la divulgation proactive des cas de coronavirus, parmi les prisonniers et le personnel pénitentiaire, entre les juridictions canadiennes au cours des deux premières années de la pandémie COVID-19. S’appuyant sur la littérature sur la police des connaissances criminologiques et l’opacité des prisons, cet article aborde comment de multiples approches de la criminologie de l’actualité (« newsmaking cr…
Staged authenticity in penal history sites across Canada
Literature on penal tourism has examined meanings of imprisonment and punishment communicated in infamous American (e.g. Alcatraz, Eastern State Penitentiary), Australian (e.g. Fannie Bay Gaol, Port Arthur) and South African (e.g. Robben Island) sites. Yet such research has not extensively drawn from academic debates on authenticity and heritage that have become prominent in tourism research. This article examines the staging of authenticity in l…
Problematizing Carceral Tours
Tours of operational prisons and jails have been advocated by some academics as one way of conducting observational research inside carceral institutions and have also been employed as a university-level pedagogical tool for teaching students about the realities of imprisonment. Though the merits of carceral tours as a knowledge-producing practice have been discussed in criminology and related social scientific disciplines, accounts of their limi…
Exceptional State, Pragmatic Bureaucracy, and Indefinite Detention
Situé sur le site de l'Établissement de Millhaven à Bath en Ontario, le Centre de surveillance de l'immigration de Kingston (CSIK) est une prison spécialement construite pour détenir des individus sujets à des certificats de sécurité. Le CSIK fut créé en 2006 en réponse à la controverse concernant l'utilisation des établissements correctionnels de l'Ontario pour la détention à long-terme des individus en vertu d'un certificat de sécurité. Bien qu…
Facilitating Prisoner Ethnography
In this article, we reflect on the position of researcher-as-facilitator of prisoner ethnography. By privileging the standpoint and the voice of prisoners as a way of knowing about carceral spaces, we differentiate between the position of researcher-as-facilitator of prisoner ethnography and other approaches to ethnography in prisons. Based on our editorial work with the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons-a peer-reviewed and academically-oriented jo…
Bridging or fostering social distance? An analysis of penal spectator comments on Canadian penal history museums
Penal history museums are among the sites where cultural meanings about prisoners and imprisonment are developed, communicated, and consumed. Little research has explored what visitors take from these encounters. Drawing on literature concerning new media communication and Brown’s (2009) work on penal spectatorship, we analyze visitor comments about their sojourns into Canadian penal history sites found on TripAdvisor, a global travel website. We…
Captive and Captor Representations at Canadian Penal History Museums
This article examines representations of prisoners and prison staff from 45 penal tourism sites across Canada. Drawing from literature on representations of criminal justice, we demonstrate that the objects, signs, and symbolism in these heritage sites are curated in ways that can create separation between penal spectators and prisoners. Positive representations of prison staff stand in contrast to depictions of prisoners who are often demonized …
They Didn't Just Do It Because It Was a Job”
Reconsidering the boundaries of the shadow carceral state
Beckett and Murakawa conceptualize the ‘shadow carceral state’ as institutions deriving their authority from administrative and civil law that dole out punishment in conjunction with the penal state. This concept enriches criminological inquiry by expanding the boundaries of what punishment work entails. Left unexplored are the contributions of memory institutions such as penitentiary, prison and jail museums intersecting with the penal state tha…
Critical Punishment Memorialization in Canada
Going Public”
Among prison scholars it is well known that access to penal institutions for the purposes of conducting research is not a given. For instance, in the Canadian context, some social researchers have been effectively barred from conducting studies inside prisons or have had to modify their research designs in order to enter the carceral. The ability to obtain unpublished records on imprisonment policies and practices in Canada has also been cited as…
Regimes of representation in Canadian police museums
There are dozens of public police museums located across Canada that memorialize the country’s history of law enforcement and criminalization. Drawing from fieldwork at these sites, we explore the representational devices used to curate police museum displays. Invoking Stuart Hall’s work on representation and Othering, we examine how gun displays at Canadian police museums are organized to minimize the harm that police interventions with guns cau…
Representations of detention and other pains of law enforcement in police museums in Ontario, Canada
Police museums have been described as dark tourism destinations that depict death and suffering, yet rarely have they been conceptualised as a form of penal tourism. Applying Diarmaid Harkin’s notion of 'pains of policing' to police museums in Ontario, Canada we illustrate how these sites engage in punishment memorialisation. Police museums, which are increasingly staged in the front of police headquarters, are one of the ways policing organisati…
Covid‐19 and views of imprisonment in a sample of prison tourists
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed large segments of the global population to the experience of restricted freedoms. In Canada, COVID-19-related measures led to a decrease of mobility within the country, prohibiting access to public and private spaces for prolonged periods of time. This study addresses the effects of the pandemic and related restrictions on views of imprisonment, drawing on a sample of individuals who took part in a tour of the HI…
Inonder l’espace médiatique, contester le manque de transparence de l’État
Il y a eu des différences importantes concernant la divulgation proactive des cas de coronavirus, parmi les prisonniers et le personnel pénitentiaire, entre les juridictions canadiennes au cours des deux premières années de la pandémie COVID-19. S’appuyant sur la littérature sur la police des connaissances criminologiques et l’opacité des prisons, cet article aborde comment de multiples approches de la criminologie de l’actualité (« newsmaking cr…
Policing Criminological Knowledge on Imprisonment in Pandemic Times
Thousands of prisoners and prison staff have been infected by COVID-19 across Canada. Deteriorating conditions of confinement have become commonplace, with segregation-like measures imposed in the name of preventing COVID-19 transmission. While prisoners, their loved ones, advocates, and researchers have discussed trends regarding infection, public health restrictions, and even vaccination behind bars, less explored is the deterioration of govern…
Les musées de prison au Canada
Des anciennes prisons transformées en musées sont répandues à travers le monde. Ces musées peuvent-ils alimenter le projet abolitionniste ou, à l’inverse, faire obstacle au démantèlement du système carcéral ? À partir d’une étude portant sur 45 musées de prison au Canada, cet article démontre que, dans la majorité des cas, ces sites réaffirment les définition étatiques, juridiques et populaires de ce qui constitue un « crime », diabolisent les « …
Exceptional State, Pragmatic Bureaucracy, and Indefinite Detention
Situé sur le site de l'Établissement de Millhaven à Bath en Ontario, le Centre de surveillance de l'immigration de Kingston (CSIK) est une prison spécialement construite pour détenir des individus sujets à des certificats de sécurité. Le CSIK fut créé en 2006 en réponse à la controverse concernant l'utilisation des établissements correctionnels de l'Ontario pour la détention à long-terme des individus en vertu d'un certificat de sécurité. Bien qu…
Problematizing Carceral Tours
Tours of operational prisons and jails have been advocated by some academics as one way of conducting observational research inside carceral institutions and have also been employed as a university-level pedagogical tool for teaching students about the realities of imprisonment. Though the merits of carceral tours as a knowledge-producing practice have been discussed in criminology and related social scientific disciplines, accounts of their limi…
The polysemy of punishment memorialization
Contributing to debates about cultural representations of prisons and prisoners, as well as exploring the crossover between the dark tourism literature and cultural criminology, this article reflects on how penal museums in the province of Ontario, Canada, create and communicate meaning as it regards imprisonment and punishment. Drawing from field notes made after observations at penal museums located in central and eastern Ontario cities and tow…
Going Public”
Among prison scholars it is well known that access to penal institutions for the purposes of conducting research is not a given. For instance, in the Canadian context, some social researchers have been effectively barred from conducting studies inside prisons or have had to modify their research designs in order to enter the carceral. The ability to obtain unpublished records on imprisonment policies and practices in Canada has also been cited as…
Carceral Tours and the Need for Reflexivity
In previous work (see P iché and W alby ) we argued that carceral tours as commonly practised have limited pedagogical and research value, and contribute to the degradation that prisoners experience. Wilson, S pina and C anaan ( ) have recently criticised our position on carceral tours. In this rejoinder, we critique the methodological approach and the logic of W ilson and colleagues. We argue that W ilson and colleagues fail to consider how orga…
J. Irwin, Lifers
Facilitating Prisoner Ethnography
In this article, we reflect on the position of researcher-as-facilitator of prisoner ethnography. By privileging the standpoint and the voice of prisoners as a way of knowing about carceral spaces, we differentiate between the position of researcher-as-facilitator of prisoner ethnography and other approaches to ethnography in prisons. Based on our editorial work with the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons-a peer-reviewed and academically-oriented jo…
Carceral retasking and the work of historical societies at decommissioned lock-ups, jails, and prisons in Ontario
In a context of expanding carceral nation states, significant government investments are made to erect new jails and prisons. On occasion, older sites of confinement and infliction of pain are decommissioned. Many debates ensue about the preservation of such sites. Little existing literature has examined how decommissioned jails and prisons are re-purposed through a process we refer to as “carceral retasking.” Based on a five-year qualitative stu…
Blind Spots of Abolitionist Thought in Academia
This paper identifies and critically assesses old and new challenges that, we argue, must be reckoned with if abolitionism qua abolitionism is to be tenable. A companion piece to the introduction of the special issue that examined the state of abolitionist scholarship, this article discusses some old challenges associated to traditional forms of abolitionism (prison abolitionism and penal abolitionism), but also emerging challenges surrounding ab…
Bridging or fostering social distance? An analysis of penal spectator comments on Canadian penal history museums
Penal history museums are among the sites where cultural meanings about prisoners and imprisonment are developed, communicated, and consumed. Little research has explored what visitors take from these encounters. Drawing on literature concerning new media communication and Brown’s (2009) work on penal spectatorship, we analyze visitor comments about their sojourns into Canadian penal history sites found on TripAdvisor, a global travel website. We…
Staged authenticity in penal history sites across Canada
Literature on penal tourism has examined meanings of imprisonment and punishment communicated in infamous American (e.g. Alcatraz, Eastern State Penitentiary), Australian (e.g. Fannie Bay Gaol, Port Arthur) and South African (e.g. Robben Island) sites. Yet such research has not extensively drawn from academic debates on authenticity and heritage that have become prominent in tourism research. This article examines the staging of authenticity in l…
Captive and Captor Representations at Canadian Penal History Museums
This article examines representations of prisoners and prison staff from 45 penal tourism sites across Canada. Drawing from literature on representations of criminal justice, we demonstrate that the objects, signs, and symbolism in these heritage sites are curated in ways that can create separation between penal spectators and prisoners. Positive representations of prison staff stand in contrast to depictions of prisoners who are often demonized …
Reconsidering the boundaries of the shadow carceral state
Beckett and Murakawa conceptualize the ‘shadow carceral state’ as institutions deriving their authority from administrative and civil law that dole out punishment in conjunction with the penal state. This concept enriches criminological inquiry by expanding the boundaries of what punishment work entails. Left unexplored are the contributions of memory institutions such as penitentiary, prison and jail museums intersecting with the penal state tha…
Critical Punishment Memorialization in Canada
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism
This extensive Handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to Prison Tourism across the world. It is divided into seven sections: Ethics, Human Rights and Penal Spectatorship; Carceral R
Representations of detention and other pains of law enforcement in police museums in Ontario, Canada
Police museums have been described as dark tourism destinations that depict death and suffering, yet rarely have they been conceptualised as a form of penal tourism. Applying Diarmaid Harkin’s notion of 'pains of policing' to police museums in Ontario, Canada we illustrate how these sites engage in punishment memorialisation. Police museums, which are increasingly staged in the front of police headquarters, are one of the ways policing organisati…
Adult mental health outcomes of adolescent depression
They Didn't Just Do It Because It Was a Job”
Les musées de prison au Canada
Des anciennes prisons transformées en musées sont répandues à travers le monde. Ces musées peuvent-ils alimenter le projet abolitionniste ou, à l’inverse, faire obstacle au démantèlement du système carcéral ? À partir d’une étude portant sur 45 musées de prison au Canada, cet article démontre que, dans la majorité des cas, ces sites réaffirment les définition étatiques, juridiques et populaires de ce qui constitue un « crime », diabolisent les « …
Still Writing and Fighting to Reduce the Footprint and Harm of the Canadian Carceral State
Voices from the Inside, Voices from Beyond
The Jail Accountability & Information Line
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 (es…
“Everybody criticizes police, but nobody criticizes museums”
Museums are increasingly placed front-and-centre in police headquarters. Based on interviews, field notes, and observations, we examine the significance of placing museums in the foyers of new police headquarters for public culture and police legitimacy. Drawing from critical heritage, cultural and policing studies literature, we argue the trend represents a strategic means of softening the image of police and creating myths central to reinforcin…
Skirts, Stereotypes, and Silences
Drawing from interviews, fieldnotes, and visual data, we examine representations of policewomen and gender communicated in Canadian police museums. We examine four trends from our dataset. First, we found silences regarding the history of women in policing in Canada. Second, there was a fetish-like emphasis on women’s police uniforms. Third, when included policewomen were treated in a tokenistic manner. By contrast, displays focusing on men treat…
‘A prison is no place for a party’
This paper explores a case study of the struggle over the cultural meanings of charity and imprisonment related to United Way’s 2019 Rockin’ The Big House fundraising concert in partnership with Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and the City of Kingston at Kingston Penitentiary. Contributing to literature at the intersection of penality, prison tourism, and the charitable sector, we examine how staging authenticity and fostering penal spectato…
Political science (43 obras) · Criminology (38 obras) · Sociology (38 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (34 obras) · Law (25 obras) · Prison (21 obras) · Psychology (20 obras) · Law in Society and Culture (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Imprisonment (9 obras)