- Kelly Hannah-Moffat, PhD.
Professor Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
and Vice- President Human Resources & Equity
University of Toronto
24 Kings College rm 112
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
M5S1A1
Kelly Hannah-Moffat
University of Toronto, Sociology and Criminology, Faculty Member
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There are four contributors to this review symposium. David Brown's review focuses on the questions of abolitionism that cut across much of Carlen's scholarship on punishment and prisons. Kerry Carrington's review attempts to... more
There are four contributors to this review symposium. David Brown's review focuses on the questions of abolitionism that cut across much of Carlen's scholarship on punishment and prisons. Kerry Carrington's review attempts to articulate Pat Carlen's contributions to feminism, critque and crimnology, a selection of which is republished in the third scetion 'A criminological imgination'. Kelly Hannah-Moffat's review provides a succint but broad ranging analysis of Carlen's contributions to knowledge, politics and penal reform. Jo Phoenix takes Carlen's contributions to women, crim and scoial control as her main source of inspiration from this large body of work to review.
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Margaret Shaw and Kelly Hannah-Moffat consider the discriminatory implications of risk-based classification systems and of actuarial risk assessment tools in the Canadian correctional system.
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Research Interests: Sociology, Criminology, Law, Precarity, Prison, and 4 moreImprisonment, Scholarship, Reentry, and punishment psychology
... like to acknowledge the unconditional support and tolerance of my family and Sean, Susie, Kayla, Shane, and Katie Hannah; Marcia ... and experiences of imprisonment (Berzins and Collette-Carriere 1979; Watson 1980; Adelberg and Currie... more
... like to acknowledge the unconditional support and tolerance of my family and Sean, Susie, Kayla, Shane, and Katie Hannah; Marcia ... and experiences of imprisonment (Berzins and Collette-Carriere 1979; Watson 1980; Adelberg and Currie 1987, 1993a; Walford 1987; Hamelin ...
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... Feminist scholars have offered strong theoretical and empirical critiques of the RNR model for failing to attend to gender differences (Bloom 2003a 2003b; Hannah-Moffat and Shaw 2001; Kendall 2002 2004; Kendall and Pollack 2003;... more
... Feminist scholars have offered strong theoretical and empirical critiques of the RNR model for failing to attend to gender differences (Bloom 2003a 2003b; Hannah-Moffat and Shaw 2001; Kendall 2002 2004; Kendall and Pollack 2003; Chesney-193 Page 221. ...
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This book is about the culture of crime control and criminal justice in Britain and America. Or, to be more precise, it is about the dramatic developments that have occurred in our social response to crime during the last thirty years and... more
This book is about the culture of crime control and criminal justice in Britain and America. Or, to be more precise, it is about the dramatic developments that have occurred in our social response to crime during the last thirty years and about the social, cultural, and political ...
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In March 2009, Ian Brodie, former chief of staff for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, spoke at a McGill University conference on the role of evidence in government policymaking. His appraisal was frank and candid. He stated that... more
In March 2009, Ian Brodie, former chief of staff for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, spoke at a McGill University conference on the role of evidence in government policymaking. His appraisal was frank and candid. He stated that the government, specifically the Conservative government that was in power until defeated by Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party in the October 2015 election, "never really had to engage properly in the question of what evidence actually shows about various approaches to crime" (Brodie 2009). Indeed, the fact that various academics were speaking out against the Conservative government's "tough on crime" policy reforms was politically advantageous for the government: During my time as a practitioner of public policy in Mr. Harper's government I was piqued, from time to time, to see our government attacked by students of public policy for embarking on policies that some of them thought lacked a firm basis in evidence. Every li...
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As police records expand with big data analytics, so too has the range of non-conviction information seeping into the public domain through criminal background checks. Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of background... more
As police records expand with big data analytics, so too has the range of non-conviction information seeping into the public domain through criminal background checks. Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of background checks for those with criminal convictions, but less understood are the effects of non-conviction records. We draw on 8 focus groups and 52 interviews to understand how the release of non-conviction records are: (1) creating new institutional risk management pressures for police institutions, (2) expanding the role of employers as arbiters of risk, (3) redefining understandings of ‘the risky subject’ to include victims, those with mental health challenges and other innocent individuals subject to police contact and (4) raising critical legal questions about privacy and presumptions of innocence.
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Page 112. Chapter 5 How cognitive skills forgot about gender and diversity Margaret Shaw and Kelly Hannah-Moffat Introduction1 Much of the discussion around evidence-based policies and effective programmes in criminal ...
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This paper discusses the concerns associated with the introduction of, and increased reliance on, actuarial risk tools in sentencing in order to: (1) stimulate cross-disciplinary dialog and research about the impact of incorporating... more
This paper discusses the concerns associated with the introduction of, and increased reliance on, actuarial risk tools in sentencing in order to: (1) stimulate cross-disciplinary dialog and research about the impact of incorporating actuarial risk logic into sentencing processes and (2) identify questions requiring further empirical examination. In this article, I recognize that actuarial risk logic offers managerial and organizational
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Meanings of risk in criminal justice assessment continue to evolve, making it critical to understand how particular compositions of risk are mediated, resisted and re-configured by experts and practitioners. Criminal justice organizations... more
Meanings of risk in criminal justice assessment continue to evolve, making it critical to understand how particular compositions of risk are mediated, resisted and re-configured by experts and practitioners. Criminal justice organizations are working with computer scientists, software engineers and private companies that are skilled in big data analytics to produce new ways of thinking about and managing risk. Little is known, however, about how criminal justice systems, social justice organizations and individuals are shaping, challenging and redefining conventional actuarial risk episteme(s) through the use of big data technologies. The use of such analytics is shifting organizational risk practices, challenging social science methods of assessing risk, producing new knowledge about risk and consequently new forms of algorithmic governance. This article explores how big data reconfigure risk by producing a new form of algorithmic risk—a form of risk which is posited as different f...
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ABSTRACT Recent calls for ‘evidence-based’ approaches have firmly positioned risk assessment as a promising path towards more efficient, unbiased, and empirically based offender management, in custody and in the community. Simultaneously,... more
ABSTRACT Recent calls for ‘evidence-based’ approaches have firmly positioned risk assessment as a promising path towards more efficient, unbiased, and empirically based offender management, in custody and in the community. Simultaneously, sociological and critical legal scholars have questioned the focus on individual needs at the expense of wider structural factors’. I will demonstrate the need to reconceptualise risk/need logics and the use of ‘evidence’. I will argue that various criminal justice processes are themselves dynamic criminogenic risks that produce systemic conditions for recidivism and which, if modified, could make a measurable difference in recidivism and other correctional efficiencies. Finally, I will argue that the logic of dynamic risk is transferable to an analysis of socio-structural factors, and that this characterisation can alter the framing of penal subjects, governmental responsibilities, and potentially interrupt the systemically produced criminogenic pathways that perpetuate criminal involvement and marginalisation.
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... for women on parole. Recent research (see Hannah-Moffat 2008; Pollack 2008a; 2008b) suggests that women's relationships are increasingly targeted as sites of gendered regulation and reform. The incorporation of... more
... for women on parole. Recent research (see Hannah-Moffat 2008; Pollack 2008a; 2008b) suggests that women's relationships are increasingly targeted as sites of gendered regulation and reform. The incorporation of 'relational ...
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Meanings of risk in criminal justice assessment continue to evolve, making it critical to understand how particular compositions of risk are mediated, resisted and re-configured by experts and practitioners. Criminal justice organizations... more
Meanings of risk in criminal justice assessment continue to evolve, making it critical to understand how particular compositions of risk are mediated, resisted and re-configured by experts and practitioners. Criminal justice organizations are working with computer scientists, software engineers and private companies that are skilled in big data analytics to produce new ways of thinking about and managing risk. Little is known, however, about how criminal justice systems, social justice organizations and individuals are shaping, challenging and redefining conventional actuarial risk episteme(s) through the use of big data technologies. The use of such analytics is shifting organizational risk practices, challenging social science methods of assessing risk, producing new knowledge about risk and consequently new forms of algorithmic governance. This article explores how big data reconfigure risk by producing a new form of algorithmic risk—a form of risk which is posited as different from the social science (psychologically) informed risk techniques already in use in many justice sectors. It also shows that new experts are entering the risk game, including technologists who make data public and accessible to a range of stakeholders. Finally, it demonstrates that big data analytics can be used to produce forms of usable knowledge that constitute types of 'information activism'. This form of activism produces alternative risk narratives, which are focused on 'criminogenic structures' or 'criminogenic policy'.