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About the Authors Gillian Balfour is an Associate Professor of Socio­Legal Studies and Feminist Criminology. Her research examines feminist engagement with the victimization, criminalization, and incarceration continuum. She has published widely in areas of sentencing law reform impacts on Indigenous women and the implications of restorative justice in the context of gender­based violence. With her colleagues, she has examined how rape narratives and legal narratives intersect in sexual assault sentencing deci­ sions, as well as the role of victim impact statements in sentencing practices. She is currently conducting an archival study of discipline in Canadian women’s prisons and is a co­investigator on a national study looking at the lived experiences of incarceration. Her most recent project explores the place of organized labour inside prisons. She is a member of Canada’s Walls to Bridges collective that provides prison­ based learning for incarcerated and non­incarcerated students. James Bonta received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1979 and began his career as a psychologist at a maximum­security remand centre, and later as Chief Psychologist. In 1990, he joined Public Safety Canada and he is presently Director of Corrections Research. Dr. Bonta is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and recipient of the Criminal Justice Section’s Career Contribution Award for 2009. Dr. Bonta’s interests are in the areas of risk assessment and offender rehabilitation. He co­ authored with the late D. A. Andrews The Psychology of Criminal Conduct (now in its fifth edition). He is also a co­author of the various Level of Service risk/need instruments that have been translated into five languages and used by correctional systems throughout the world. Nicolas Carrier is Associate Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Carleton University. He is notably the author of La politique de la stupéfaction: pérennité de la prohibition des drogues (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008). His research interests include criminological and social theory, social control, the sociology of law and moralization processes. Tracey Cyca has been an Instructor in the Department of Public Safety and Justice Studies at MacEwan University since September 2003. Prior to this she was an instructor in the Bachelor of Applied Justice Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She has taught distance and on­line courses for both MacEwan and Mount Royal. Tracey’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Psychology) from the University of Manitoba and a Master of Criminology (Applied) from the Univer­ sity of Ottawa. Tracey’s current research and teaching interests include youth, addictions, and resiliency. She has worked as a case manager and program facilitator for several youth correctional facilities; has participated in youth justice committees and other alternative measures programs; and has taught social skills and substance abuse programs to youth at risk. She has also been involved in mentoring and board work. Myles Ferguson (J.D., MA) received his Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology in 2016. He is a research associate with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Sciences and Justice Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Myles has published several reports for various federal and provincial Ministries and departments that address public health and safety, diversity and inclusion issues, justice issues and public policy development. About the Authors Paul Gendreau, O.C., Ph.D. is a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba and was raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He began working at Kingston Penitentiary, Ontario in 1961 and has had appointments at several univer ­ sities including Trent University (1968­1972), Carleton University (1972­1986), University of Ottawa (1972­1986), and the University of New Brunswick, Saint John (1986­2005). Between 1972­1986 he also worked in Ontario corrections as Chief Psychologist and acted as a consultant on corrections proj­ ects in Jamaica, New Zealand, the United States, and Canada. Between 1986­2005 he was visiting scholar at Edith Cowan (2000) & Griffith (2004) Universities in Australia as well as the University of Cincinnati (1996­1997; 2007­2008). He is currently Professor Emeritus at UNB and a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (2010­2012). Dr. Gendreau is a former President of the Cana dian Psychological Association and has received numerous awards from CPA, the American Psychological Association, the International Community & Corrections Association, and the Correc­ tional Service Canada (CSC). He has published extensively on “what works” in the assessment and treatment of offenders [also see the CPAI­2010© which has been widely used to evaluate offender treat ­ ment programs], program implementation, the effects of prison life, and the use of statistics in knowledge cumulation. In 2007 Dr. Gendreau was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for achievement and merit of a high degree, especially service to Canada or humanity at large. Claire Goggin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick where she teaches courses in Research Methods and Statistics, Corrections, Psychology of Criminal Behaviour, and Programme Evaluation. Current research interests include offender risk assessment and classification, correctional program evaluation, including the effects of imprisonment, empirical research methodologies and statistics, particularly meta­analysis, and knowledge cumulation and transfer. She has co­authored several articles, book chapters, and conference presentations on the above topics. Kelly Hannah­Moffat is a Professor and Vice Dean Undergraduate at the University of Toronto Missis ­ sauga. She joined the Department of Sociology in 1999. She is cross­appointed to the Centre of Criminology and Socio­legal Studies and is a Massey College Senior Fellow. Professor Hannah­Moffat also worked as a policy advisor for Madame Justice Louise Arbour on the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston and was the President of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society. She has published numerous articles and books on risk, punishment, parole, gender and diversity, women`s imprisonment, specialized courts, actuarial sentencing and criminal justice deci­ sion­making. Amy Klassen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research work is on the various ways people with mental illness are governed inside and outside of the criminal justice system. More specifically, her current research includes theoretical understandings of prison resistance, choice, and the conflation of mental illness with disorderly conduct among female prisoners; the use of community treatment orders to manage people with severe mental health issues in community mental health; and the influence of risk­based thinking to prisoner rights. Katharina Maier is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. She is particularly interested in people’s experiences of punishment, prisoner re­entry, front­line workers, and community penalties. Her current research examines the role of non­state actors in prisoner re­entry. Katharina’s work has appeared in Theoretical Criminology and Punishment & Society. Aja Jacqueline Manning is a graduate of the Applied Justice Studies Program of Mount Royal Univer­ sity and completed her Master of Science majoring in Criminal Justice through Indiana State University. vi Adult Corrections in Canada Aja has worked in both non­profit and Government agencies helping develop community programs, social return on investment projects and providing prevention and intervention services to vulnerable children, youths and their families in the Calgary and area region. Aja continues to expand her research in areas of counselling and mindfulness meditation with the focus of future program development for social services and the criminal justice system. Olga Marques is an Assistant Professor (Criminology) at the University of Ontario, Institute of Tech­ nology. Her research interests include the construction, policing and regulation of gendered, sexed and raced bodies, and the inter­relationships between gendered/sexed social norms, social control, and resistance. Her current research projects focus on the impacts of spousal and/or children’s incarceration on mothers; and revenge and non­consensual intimate image dissemination. Lisa Monchalin teaches in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. She is of Algonquin, Métis, Huron, and Scottish descent. Proud of her Indigenous heritage, and driven by personal and family experiences, she is determined to reduce the amount of crime that affects Indige­ nous peoples through education. Lisa is the author of The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016). Amanda Nelund is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at MacEwan University in Edmonton AB. She has published in areas of restorative justice and criminalized women, restorative justice and gendered violence, and public criminology. Her current research focuses on alternative justice responses to sexual violence on post­secondary campuses. Debra Parkes holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies in the Peter A. Allard School of Law, Univer­ sity of British Columbia. She teaches and researches in a variety of

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