Delighted that the wonderful Chris Bruckert, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, and I won the Canadian Law & Society Association Best English Article Prize in 2023 for articles published in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society. The winning article focuses on our research on ethical considerations for qualitative research with criminalized people in a context where there is little protection or support.
Abstract: In May 2012, a former research assistant contacted the Montréal police about an interview he had conducted with Luka Magnotta for the SSHRC-funded research project Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and their Clients four years previously. That call ultimately resulted in the Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta case. Now, a decade later, we are positioned to reflect on the collective lessons learned (and lost) from the case. In this paper, we provide a lay of the Canadian confidentiality landscape before teasing out ten lessons from Parent c R. To do so, we draw on personal archives, survey results from sixty researchers, twelve key informant interviews with qualitative sociolegal and criminology researchers, and documentary analysis of university research policies. The lessons, which range from the clichéd, to the practical, to the frustrating, have implications for the individual work of Canadian researchers and for the collective work of academic institutions.
Check out the full article, here!