Mitra Mokhtari
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitra Mokhtari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mokhtari |
| SIGNATURE | MOKHTARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8977-5256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
They Stole All My Shit”
Drawing on interviews with 65 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), this article examines the role and impact of municipal by-laws’ daily governance of PEH and their possessions. We argue PEH’s possessions are a site of governance that by-law officers use to exert both punitive control and responsibilization onto PEH’s lives. We show how the daily governance of possessions enhances and reinforces existing …
Who better to be training them?!’
Higher education is consistently offered as a powerful tool of criminal justice reform. Often presumed to be progressive, it is imperative to interrogate the limits of these orientations. I draw from 41 (n = 41) semi-structured interviews with staff and faculty at 36 criminology departments across Canada to uncover how they understand the role of criminological undergraduate education within ongoing projects of CJS reform. Participants emphasize …
We need to understand that we are dealing with humans
Carceral logics have long been implicated for their role in (re)productions of otherness, that in settler colonial contexts such as Canada are often embedded within logics of colonialism, anti-black racism, and white supremacy. Given the persistence of these logics and the violences they perpetuate, what might it mean to confront these constructions in a criminology classroom? Based on interviews with 41 staff and faculty of criminology departmen…
Critical Criminology, Canadian Edition
Markers of entanglement
Within the neoliberal era, the university's form and function have shifted. These shifts necessitate an unraveling of the synergies of institutions of higher education with carceral institutions. Building from the scholarship of the “college-prison nexus” and the “academic-prison symbiosis,” this paper converges on the criminology department's role within these synergies. Based on an analysis of department websites and the introductory course syl…
Maghbouleh, Neda, The Limits of Whiteness
Markers of entanglement
Within the neoliberal era, the university's form and function have shifted. These shifts necessitate an unraveling of the synergies of institutions of higher education with carceral institutions. Building from the scholarship of the “college-prison nexus” and the “academic-prison symbiosis,” this paper converges on the criminology department's role within these synergies. Based on an analysis of department websites and the introductory course syl…
Who better to be training them?!’
Higher education is consistently offered as a powerful tool of criminal justice reform. Often presumed to be progressive, it is imperative to interrogate the limits of these orientations. I draw from 41 (n = 41) semi-structured interviews with staff and faculty at 36 criminology departments across Canada to uncover how they understand the role of criminological undergraduate education within ongoing projects of CJS reform. Participants emphasize …
Maghbouleh, Neda, The Limits of Whiteness
Markers of entanglement
Within the neoliberal era, the university's form and function have shifted. These shifts necessitate an unraveling of the synergies of institutions of higher education with carceral institutions. Building from the scholarship of the “college-prison nexus” and the “academic-prison symbiosis,” this paper converges on the criminology department's role within these synergies. Based on an analysis of department websites and the introductory course syl…
Critical Criminology, Canadian Edition
They Stole All My Shit”
Drawing on interviews with 65 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), this article examines the role and impact of municipal by-laws’ daily governance of PEH and their possessions. We argue PEH’s possessions are a site of governance that by-law officers use to exert both punitive control and responsibilization onto PEH’s lives. We show how the daily governance of possessions enhances and reinforces existing …
Who better to be training them?!’
Higher education is consistently offered as a powerful tool of criminal justice reform. Often presumed to be progressive, it is imperative to interrogate the limits of these orientations. I draw from 41 (n = 41) semi-structured interviews with staff and faculty at 36 criminology departments across Canada to uncover how they understand the role of criminological undergraduate education within ongoing projects of CJS reform. Participants emphasize …
We need to understand that we are dealing with humans
Carceral logics have long been implicated for their role in (re)productions of otherness, that in settler colonial contexts such as Canada are often embedded within logics of colonialism, anti-black racism, and white supremacy. Given the persistence of these logics and the violences they perpetuate, what might it mean to confront these constructions in a criminology classroom? Based on interviews with 41 staff and faculty of criminology departmen…
Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work)