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A research team led by a University of Alberta scholar has received nearly $2.5 million in new federal funding<\/a> for a national research project aimed at reforming the Canadian justice system.<\/p>\n The team, headed by sociologist\u00a0Sandra Bucerius<\/a> and including the United Way and academic experts on the court and prison systems from across Canada, was awarded a Partnership Grant<\/a> from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada<\/a> to examine systemic problems across criminal justice institutions.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you look at the media, the focus is mostly on police,\u201d says Bucerius, director of the\u00a0Centre for Criminological Research<\/a>. \u201cBut we try to approach criminal justice as a system composed of interconnected subsystems, which include police, the courts, correctional facilities and reintegration into the community.\u201d<\/p>\n The team will examine how each element of the justice system contributes both separately and together to marginalization of populations such as Indigenous peoples, impoverished Canadians, Black Canadians and the LGBTQ2S community to create a \u201ccumulative disadvantage in the Canadian justice system,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Most criminologists study only one institution rather than looking at how the systems connect, she adds.<\/p>\n \u201cWe look at the over-representation of Indigenous prisoners, for example, but it really starts much earlier than that. Who is getting picked up by police, and who gets processed through the court system? Why do people come back?\u201d<\/p>\n She points out that 50 per cent of female prisoners in Canada are Indigenous, a figure that rises to 76 per cent in the Edmonton Institution for Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starting with an examination of Alberta and Ontario and followed by Quebec, the research will address \u201clong-simmering concerns about police violence, pains of imprisonment, gendered and racial victimization and the denial of fundamental civil liberties,\u201d says Bucerius.<\/p>\n One of the project\u2019s main goals will be to provide evidence-based recommendations for reform. Other U of A scholars included in the partnership grant include sociologists\u00a0Jana Grekul<\/a>, Temitope Oriola<\/a>, Kevin Haggerty<\/a> and Justin Tetrault<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Partnership Grants<\/a> awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada<\/a> are meant to \u201cadvance knowledge and understanding on critical issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance.\u201d<\/p>\n The following researchers also received new funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to support a diverse range of projects.<\/p>\n Partnership Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika (Arts) Partnership Development Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n Lauren Sulz (Education) Aid to Scholarly Journals Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n Odile Cisneros (Arts) Martha Cleveland-Innes (Education) Anna Kirova (Education) Irene Sywenky (Arts) Insight Grants<\/strong><\/p>\n Brandon Alakas (Augustana) Efstathios Avdis (Business) Adelina Barbalau (Business) Sarah Carter (Arts) Lia Daniels (Education) Debra Davidson (Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences) Nicole Denier (Arts) Sara Dorow (Arts) William Foster (Augustana) Danielle Fuller (Arts) Cindy Gaudet (Campus Saint-Jean) Timothy Hannigan (Business) Dip Kapoor (Education) Beverly Lemire (Arts) Xiaoting Li (Arts) Temitope Oriola (Arts) Johanne Paradis (Arts) Chris Reyns (Arts) Victoria Ruetalo (Arts) Barry Scholnick (Business) Scott Smallwood (Arts) Benjamin Tucker (Arts) Christine Wiesenthal (Arts)More SSHRC grant recipients from U of A<\/h3>\n
I am because we are: Amplifying sub-Saharan African immigrants\u2019 resilience and ability to thrive
$2,481,825<\/p>\n
Creating a common vision for health education in Canada
$194,350<\/p>\n
Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos (RCEH)
$88,537<\/p>\n
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology\/La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie
$69,750<\/p>\n
Alberta Journal of Educational Research
$88,200<\/p>\n
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature\/Revue Canadienne de Litt\u00e9rature Compar\u00e9e
$102,500<\/p>\n
The readers’ reformation: women’s literacy, private devotion, and Richard Whitford’s spiritual instruction
$89,978\u00a0<\/p>\n
Financial markets, information extraction, and artificial intelligence
$141,000<\/p>\n
Financing the transition to a sustainable economy: theory and evidence
$99,251<\/p>\n
Who Owns the Prairies? A History of the Land, 1871-2021
$91,688\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reorienting assessment practices in higher education: Prioritizing student well-being through motivation theory
$277,831\u00a0<\/p>\n
EMOTIONAL pathways to climate action
$345,971<\/p>\n
Algorithmic and intersectional? Gender, race, and automation in hiring processes
$100,311<\/p>\n
Work-life in Canada: portraits of continuity and change in the meaning of work
$398,529\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commemoration and Indigenous organizing
$280,422<\/p>\n
Reading for our lives: Readers, memoir, social media
$179,086<\/p>\n
Centering Indigenous women’s wellness governance in the academy: Interrupting hyperproductivity burnout
$399,861<\/p>\n
The emerging blockchain entrepreneurship field
$269,169<\/p>\n
Learning in precarious migrant worker (PMW) organizing: Global trails to Canada
$300,799<\/p>\n
Fashioning the Imperial Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Material Culture, c. 1660-1820
$99,569\u00a0<\/p>\n
How do Mandarin speakers get others to do things? The directive system in Mandarin interaction
$351,616<\/p>\n
Race, gender, sexuality and student security: The School Resource Officer (SRO) program in Canada
$285,958\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bilingual development in children with special education needs: Minority and majority language contexts
$367,845\u00a0<\/p>\n
Au-del\u00e0 des 2 solitudes dans le monde canadien des BD\/Beyond the 2 solitudes in the Canadian world of comics
$68,768<\/p>\n
Hot flicks in the Cold War
$96,919<\/p>\n
Banks and their debtors
$149,500<\/p>\n
Audio games and music composition
$238,400<\/p>\n
Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech
$306,927\u00a0<\/p>\n
Underground Berlin Underground: A research-creation program in documentary\/investigative poetics
$79,653\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n