David Tyler Dunford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4139929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Tyler Dunford |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunford |
| SIGNATURE | DUNFORD D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Captive Market: Drug Sales on a Women’s Prison Unit
This study provides a qualitative examination of the illicit drug economy within women’s prison units. Drawing on 88 in-depth interviews with incarcerated women, we investigate how they navigate drug smuggling, distribution, and exchange despite institutional constraints. Our analysis foregrounds the agentic aspects of this trade, examining assorted tactics of “making do” used by the women to illustrate how they employ low-visibility tactics to n…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
Alberta not criminally responsible project. Part 1: Comparing the rates of incoming NCRMD persons and absolute discharges before and after Swain and Winko
Prison as temporary refuge: Amplifying the voices of women detained in prison
This article details how a subset of women can perceive of prison as temporary refuge from the hardships and marginalization they face on the outside. It focuses particularly on a group of 88 women incarcerated in western Canada. A large percentage of these women accentuated several reasons why they saw being incarcerated as a desirable alternative to their marginalized situation in their respective communities. These findings nuance our understa…
Security sovereignty and the preemption of low-risk detainees: A look into ‘battlelab’ torture techniques used at Guantanamo Bay
The Lac‐Mégantic Derailment, Corporate Regulation, and Neoliberal Sovereignty
On July 6, 2013, Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic railcar 5017 hauling 72 tanker cars of Bakken crude oil derailed over the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The town erupted in a fiery inferno as 5,560,000 liters of highly flammable Bakken crude oil exploded over the town, killing 47 people and contaminating 558,000 tons of soil and local waterways. While Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Rail Chairman Edward Burkhardt initially blamed the derailment on th…
Lempert, Lora B, Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity
L ora Lempert's Women Doing Life should be considered amongst the foremost masterpieces of feminist criminology.She skillfully describes how 72 women (five main research participants) come to terms with their imprisonment, develop individual meaning, and exercise agency while serving life without parole inside a Michigan prison.In keeping with studies related to female criminality (e.g.Maher, 1996) and ethnographic studies more generally, she pla…
Legal nominalism: A reconceptualization of post-9/11 legal complexes
Prison as temporary refuge: Amplifying the voices of women detained in prison
This article details how a subset of women can perceive of prison as temporary refuge from the hardships and marginalization they face on the outside. It focuses particularly on a group of 88 women incarcerated in western Canada. A large percentage of these women accentuated several reasons why they saw being incarcerated as a desirable alternative to their marginalized situation in their respective communities. These findings nuance our understa…
The Lac‐Mégantic Derailment, Corporate Regulation, and Neoliberal Sovereignty
On July 6, 2013, Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic railcar 5017 hauling 72 tanker cars of Bakken crude oil derailed over the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The town erupted in a fiery inferno as 5,560,000 liters of highly flammable Bakken crude oil exploded over the town, killing 47 people and contaminating 558,000 tons of soil and local waterways. While Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Rail Chairman Edward Burkhardt initially blamed the derailment on th…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
Legal nominalism: A reconceptualization of post-9/11 legal complexes
Legal nominalism: A reconceptualization of post-9/11 legal complexes
Security sovereignty and the preemption of low-risk detainees: A look into ‘battlelab’ torture techniques used at Guantanamo Bay
The Lac‐Mégantic Derailment, Corporate Regulation, and Neoliberal Sovereignty
On July 6, 2013, Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic railcar 5017 hauling 72 tanker cars of Bakken crude oil derailed over the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The town erupted in a fiery inferno as 5,560,000 liters of highly flammable Bakken crude oil exploded over the town, killing 47 people and contaminating 558,000 tons of soil and local waterways. While Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Rail Chairman Edward Burkhardt initially blamed the derailment on th…
Lempert, Lora B, Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity
L ora Lempert's Women Doing Life should be considered amongst the foremost masterpieces of feminist criminology.She skillfully describes how 72 women (five main research participants) come to terms with their imprisonment, develop individual meaning, and exercise agency while serving life without parole inside a Michigan prison.In keeping with studies related to female criminality (e.g.Maher, 1996) and ethnographic studies more generally, she pla…
Alberta not criminally responsible project. Part 1: Comparing the rates of incoming NCRMD persons and absolute discharges before and after Swain and Winko
Prison as temporary refuge: Amplifying the voices of women detained in prison
This article details how a subset of women can perceive of prison as temporary refuge from the hardships and marginalization they face on the outside. It focuses particularly on a group of 88 women incarcerated in western Canada. A large percentage of these women accentuated several reasons why they saw being incarcerated as a desirable alternative to their marginalized situation in their respective communities. These findings nuance our understa…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
A Captive Market: Drug Sales on a Women’s Prison Unit
This study provides a qualitative examination of the illicit drug economy within women’s prison units. Drawing on 88 in-depth interviews with incarcerated women, we investigate how they navigate drug smuggling, distribution, and exchange despite institutional constraints. Our analysis foregrounds the agentic aspects of this trade, examining assorted tactics of “making do” used by the women to illustrate how they employ low-visibility tactics to n…
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