Justin EC Tetrault
Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, Carleton University, King's University College at Western University Canada, University of Winnipeg
0000-0002-1580-8550
About
I am an assistant professor of criminology at SFU's School of Criminology. My interests concern a range of topics, especially political movements and extremism, Indigenous justice, and prisons and re-entry. I have two broad research areas. The first is my work on the University of Alberta Prison Project. Our research team interviews incarcerated people and staff about their experiences living and working inside prisons. I have written on racism and prison gangs, Indigenous peoples' experiences with cultural programming, and am currently studying re-entry experiences and healing lodges, respectively. My second area of research examines populism, extremism, and right-wing nationalist movements. I am working with Dr. Sandra Bucerius on a study of German populism, involving interviews with AfD and BSW party supporters. In this area I have published on "mainstreaming" of the far-right, the sociology of hate, the problems with counterterrorism research, and unhoused Indigenous people's experiences with hate crime. I am also Red River Métis and am working with Elders, Indigenous researchers, and prison staff to improve cultural supports for federally sentenced Indigenous people.
Employment
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Simon Fraser University Assistant Professor of Criminology2025 - Present
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University of Alberta Assistant Professor of Sociology2021 - 2025
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King's University College at Western University Canada2020 - 2021
Education
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University of Alberta Doctor of Philosophy2014 - 2020
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Carleton University Master of Arts2012 - 2014
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University of Winnipeg Bachelor of Arts, Honours2006 - 2011
Projects & Funding
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Publications (14)
- The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars Save
- How liberalism accommodates far-right social movements: on “mainstreaming” and the need for critical theory in far-right studies Save
- Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People Save
- Decolonizing prisons: Indigenized programming and a critique of critical prison studies Save
- Indigenizing Prisons: A Canadian Case Study Save
- Corrigendum to: Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements Save
- Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements Save
- Review of McCluskey, Emma (2019). From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies Save
- Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Methodological Reorientation to Studying Right-wing Nationalism and the Far-right Movement in Canada Save
- Multiculturalism Under Confinement: Prisoner Race Relations Inside Western Canadian Prisons Save