The Carceral Cultures research initiative disseminates the findings from our projects in a number of ways. Below you will find links to academic works and media commentary related to our studies.

L'initiative de recherche Cultures Carcérales partage les résultats de la recherche de plusieurs façons. Vous trouverez ci-dessous des liens de nos publications académiques et des commentaires médiatiques relatifs à nos études de recherche.


PENAL HISTORY MUSEUMS
LES MUSÉES DE PÉNITENCIERS

Book / Livre

Wilson, Jacqueline Z., Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (eds.) (2017) Handbook of Prison Tourism, London: Palgrave, 1045 pages.


Articles

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (2011) “The Polysemy of Punishment Memorialization: Dark Tourism and Ontario’s Penal History Museums”, Punishment & Society, 13(4): 391-410.

Ferguson, Matthew, Elizabeth Lay, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2014) “The Cultural Work of Decommissioned Carceral Sites: Representations of Confinement and Punishment at Kingston Penitentiary”, Scapegoat: Landscape, Architecture, Political Economy, 7: 83-98.

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (2015) “Staged Authenticity in Penal History Sites Across Canada”, Tourist Studies, 15(3): 231-247.

Ferguson, Matthew, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2015) “Bridging or Fostering Social Distance? An Analysis of Penal Spectator Comments on Canadian Penal History Museums”, Crime, Media, Culture, 11(3): 357-374.

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (2015) “Making Meaning Out of Punishment: Penitentiary, Prison, Jail and Lock-up Museums in Canada”, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(4): 475-502.

Kleuskens, Shanisse, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby & Ashley Chen (2016) “Reconsidering the Boundaries of the Shadow Carceral State: An Analysis of the Symbiosis between Punishment and its Memorialization”, Theoretical Criminology, 20(4): 566-591.

Ferguson, Matthew, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2016) “Tour Guide Styles and Penal History Museums in Canada”, International Journal of Tourism Research, 18(5): 477-485.

Fiander, Sarah, Ashley Chen, Justin Piché and Kevin Walby (2016) “Critical Punishment Memorialization in Canada”, Critical Criminology, 24(1): 1-18.

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (2016) “Reflections on Visual Methods from a Study of Manitoulin Island’s Penal History Museums”, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 5: 264-290.

Chen, Ashley, Sarah Fiander, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2016) “Captive and Captor Representations at Canadian Penal History Museums”, Qualitative Sociology Review, 12(4): 22-42.

Luscombe, Alex, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2018) “Making Punishment Memorialization Pay? Marketing, Networks and Souvenirs at Small Penal History Museums”, Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 42(3): 343-364.

Walby, Kevin, Justin Piché and Brittany Friesen (2018) “‘they didn’t just do it because it was a job’: Representing Wardens in Canadian Penal History Museums”, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 53: 1-8.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2018) “Les musées de prison au Canada : Une réflexion abolitionniste”, Déviance et Société, 42(4): 643-662.

Piché, Justin, Matthew Ferguson & Kevin Walby (2019) “A ‘win-win for everyone involved…’ Except for Prisoners: Kingston Penitentiary Tours as an Exercise in Staff, Media and Public Relations”, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 8: 91-119.

Ferguson, Matthew, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2019) “Representations of Detention and Other Pains of Law Enforcement in Police Museums in Ontario, Canada”, Policing & Society, 29(3): 318-332.

Walby, Kevin, Matthew Ferguson & Justin Piché (2020) “‘Take a look at yourself’: Digital Displays at Police Museums as Camouflage”, Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 9: 57-85.

Joshua, Courtney, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2021) “Skirts, Stereotypes and Silences: Representations of Women in Canadian Police Museums”, Women & Criminal Justice, 31(5): 391-405.

Mussell, Linda, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2021) “‘Can you make it out alive?’ Penal Imaginaries at Forts, Sanitaria, Asylums and Segregated Schools”, Qualitative Criminology, 10(3): 1-39.

Walby, Kevin, Justin Piché & Matthew Ferguson (2021) “‘Everybody criticizes police, but nobody criticizes museums’: Police Headquarters and Museums as Public Culture”, Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 43: 81-99.

Mussell, Linda, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2022) “Relationships of Embeddedness and Indebtedness: An Analysis of Carceral-Capital-Charity Politics in Kingston, Ontario”, Crime, Law and Social Change, 77(1): 47-68.

Mussell, Linda, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby & Lisa Guenther (2022) “‘A prison is no place for a party’: Neoliberalism, Charitable Fundraising, Carceral Enjoyments and Abolitionist Killjoys”, Contemporary Justice Review, 25(1): 56-81.

Pauls, Haley, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2022) “Police Subjectivities and Gunscapes: Regimes of Representation in Canadian Police Museums”, Crime, Media, Culture, Online First: 1-21.

Harrison, William, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2022) “Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums”, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 37(3): 345-364.

Ferguson, Matthew, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2023) “Found this [police museum] on Tripadvisor: A Critical Analysis of Reviews on a Social Media and Travel Network”, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 23(2): 87-105.


Book Chapters / Chapitres de livre

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (2015) “Carceral Retasking and the Work of Historical Societies at Decommissioned Lock-ups, Jails, and Prisons in Ontario”, in Karen M. Morin & Dominique Moran (eds.), Historical Geographies of Prisons: Unlocking the Usable Carceral Past, London: Routledge, pp. 88-105.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2016) “Dark Tourism, Penal Landscapes, and Criminological Inquiry”, in Nicole Rafter & Michelle Brown (eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-105.

Wilson, Jacqueline Z., Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2017) “Introduction: Prison Tourism in Context”, in Handbook of Prison Tourism, London: Palgrave, pp. 1-10

Chen, Ashley & Sarah Fiander (2017) “Commemorating Captive Women: Representations of Criminalized and Incarcerated Women in Canadian Penal History Museums”, in Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (eds.), Handbook of Prison Tourism, London: Palgrave, pp. 387-413.

Luscombe, Alex, Kevin Walby & Justin Piché (2017) “Haunting Encounters at Canadian Penal History Museums”, in Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (eds.), Handbook of Prison Tourism, London: Palgrave, pp. 435-455.

Piché, Justin, Kevin Walby & Joshua Watts (2017) “Representations of Capital Punishment in Canadian Penal History Museums”, in Jacqueline Z. Wilson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (eds.), Handbook of Prison Tourism, London: Palgrave, pp. 541-557.

Ferguson, Matthew, Devon Madill, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2018) “‘Everybody likes escape stories’: Exploring Representations of Prison Escape in Canadian Penal History Museums”, in Tomas Max Martin & Gilles Chantraine (eds.), Prison Breaks: Toward a Sociology of Prison Escape, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 311-335.

Ferguson, Matthew, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2019) “‘…that’s not a conversation that belongs to the museum’: The Invisibility of Surveillance History in Police Museums in Ontario, Canada”, in Robert Heynen & Emily van der Meulen (eds.), Making Surveillance States: Transnational Histories, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 282-305.

Ferguson, Matthew, Justin Piché, Gwénola Ricordeau, Carolina S. Boe & Kevin Walby (2020) “Police Museums, the Naturalization of Colonial Conquests, and the Legitimation of Law Enforcement in Canada and France”, in Carolyn Côté-Lussier, David Moffette and Justin Piché (eds.), Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion, Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, pp. 41-65.

Ferguson, Matthew (2020) “‘The kids find it fascinating’: Museums, Policing and the Fairy Tale of ‘Crime’”, in Mitch Daschuk, Carolyn Brooks and James Popham (eds.), Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada, Halifax: Fernwood Books.

Shook, Jarrod, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2020) “The ‘Prison [Tourism] Fix’: Carceral Habitus and Retasking in Kingston, Ontario”, in Carla Cesaroni (ed.), Canadian Prisons: Understanding the Correctional Landscape, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 251-269.

Walby, Kevin & Justin Piché (forthcoming) “Colonial Myth-Making in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies”, in Vicki Chartrand & Josephine Savarese (eds.), Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System, Athabasca: Athabasca University Press, pp. X-X.


Theses / Thèses

Ferguson, Matthew (2016) Penal Spectatorship at Three Police Museums in Ontario, MA thesis, Ottawa: Department of Criminology - University of Ottawa, 213 pages.

Jarvis, Amelia (2018) Representations of Solitary Confinement in Four Ontario Penal History Museums, MA thesis, Ottawa: Department of Criminology - University of Ottawa, 146 pages.


Media / Médias

Walby, Kevin (2012) "The Kingston Pen and Prison Tourism", The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC Radio 1 - 27 April.

Piché, Justin (2012) "SSHRC 2012 Aurora Prize / Prix Aurore du CRSH de 2012", SSHRC / CRSH - 1 November / novembre.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2013) "Introducing carceralcultures.ca / Présentation du site Web carceralcultures.ca", uOttawa Gazette - 30 April / avril.

Piché, Justin (2013) “Emprisonnement”, En direct d'ici (entrevue avec Benjamin Vachet), CJFO 94.5 FM - 2 mai.

Piché, Justin (2013) “L’initiative de recherche Cultures carcérales”, Entre nous (entrevue avec Pierre-Antoine Rivard Paquette et Barbara Laurenstin), TV Rogers - 9 mai.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2016) "Kingston Penitentiary tours send wrong message", Toronto Star - June 13.

Piché, Justin (2016) “Tours at Kingston Penitentiary”, All In A Day with Alan Neal, CBC Radio Ottawa - June 15.

Piché, Justin (2016) "Kingston Penitentiary tours problematic, argues criminology prof", CBC News - June 17.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2017) "Prisonland", Anne Bokma, United Church Observer - January 2017.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2019) “Respectful use of former prisons to be discussed”, Ian MacAlpine, Kingston Whig-Standard - September 11.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2019) “Tragic, but not hip: Escaping prison tourism at KP”, TPCP-Canada - July 2,

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2019) “Kingston activists, scholars question ethics of prison concert”, Luca Dannetta, Queen’s University Journal - September 17.

Mussell, Linda & Justin Piché (2019) “For Kingston Penitentiary, a dark history revisited”, Andrew Schjerning, Queen’s University Journal - September 27.

Piché, Justin & Kevin Walby (2019) “Exclusion from conducting penitentiary tours irks former offenders”, Kingston Whig-Standard - October 10.

Mussell, Linda, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby (2020) “Public consultation needed on multi-year use of KP”, Kingstonist - March 19.

Carceral Cultures Research Initiative (2021) “The Winnipeg Police Museum is not neutral”, Misha Falk, Winnipeg Police Cause Harm - May 18.