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Nicolas Carrier

Associate Professor, ICCJ Director

Degrees:Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal, Sociology)
Phone:613-520-2600 x 6149
Email:nicolas.carrier@carleton.ca
Office:DT 1719 Dunton Tower

Research interests

  • Social systems theory
  • Theoretical criminology
  • Social control
  • Sociology of law and punishment
  • Moralization
  • Biocriminology
  • Drug policies
  • Prison and penal abolitionism

Selected Publications

Carrier, N. (2022). Monstrosity, Correctional Healing, and the Limits of Penal Abolitionism, Crime, Media, Culture: doi.org/10.1177/17416590221086536
Piché, J., Walby, K. and N. Carrier. (2019). An Introduction to Prison and Penal Abolitionism in Canada.  In John Winterdyke and Michael Weinrath (eds), Adult Corrections in Canada (second edition), Whitby: De Sitter.
Carrier, N., Piché, J. and Walby, K. (2019). Abolitionism and Decarceration, in Deflem, M. (ed.), The Handbook of Social Control, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 469-487.
Carrier, N.  and J. Piché (2018). On (In)Justice: Undisciplined Abolitionism in Canada, Social Justice, 45 (4), 35-56: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26873824
Carrier, N. and J. Piché (2015). Blind Spots of Abolitionist Thought in Academia: On Longstanding and Emerging Challenges, Champ pénal/Penal Field: https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal/9162
Carrier, N. and J. Piché (2015). The State of Abolitionism, Champ pénal/Penal Field: https://journals.openedition.org/champpenal/9164
Carrier, N. (2015). Re-Imagining Social Control: G.H. Mead, C.W. Mills and Beyond, in Frauley, J. (ed.), The Criminological Imagination, Burlington: Ashgate.
Carrier, N. and K. Walby (2015). Is Biosocial Criminology a Predisposition not to Learn from the Social Sciences? Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 7 (1): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316714377_Carrier_N_and_K_Walby_2015_’Is_Biosocial_Criminology_a_Predisposition_not_to_Learn_from_the_Social_Sciences’_Journal_of_Theoretical_and_Philosophical_Criminology_71_96-108
Carrier, N. and K. Walby (2015). For Sociological Reason: Crime, Criminalization, and the Poverty of Biosocial Criminology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 7 (1) [online]: https://www.proquest.com/openview/f10a37f4f491c312bf8ee6ee9e8b0fd8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2030197
Carrier, N. and K. Walby (2014). Ptolemizing Lombroso: The Pseudo-Revolution of Biosocial Criminology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 6 (1): http://www.jtpcrim.org/Jan-2014/Article-1-Nicolas-Carrier-Kevin-Walby.pdf
Carrier, N. and A.S.J. Park (2013). On an Entrepreneurial Criminology of Mass Political Violence, Crime, Law & Social Change, 60 (3), 297-317: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-013-9452-z
Carrier, N. and K. Walby (2011). Putting Claims about the ‘New Paradigm’ of ‘Biosocial Criminology’ in Context, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 27 (1) [supplement], http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/27/1/81/suppl/DC1
Carrier, N. (2011). Critical Criminology Meets Radical Constructivism, Critical Criminology, 19, 331-350.
Walby, K. and N. Carrier (2010). The Rise of Biocriminology: Capturing Bodily Economies of ‘Criminal Man’, Criminology & Criminal Justice, 10 (3), 261-285.
Carrier, N. (2010). Anglo-Saxon Sociologies of the Punitive Turn: Critical Timidity, Reductive Perspectives, and the Problem of Totalization, Penal Field. New International Journal of Criminology, 7, November 2010, [online]: http://champpenal.revues.org/7952
Carrier, N. (2010). Sociologies anglo-saxonnes du virage punitif: timidité critique, perspectives totalisantes et réductrices, Champ pénal. Nouvelle revue internationale de criminologie, 7, avril 2010, [online]: http://champpenal.revues.org/7818
Carrier, N. and G. Chantraine (2009). Éditorial, Champ pénal. Nouvelle revue internationale de criminologie, 6, juillet 2007, [en ligne] : http://champpenal.revues.org/7414 (also published in English : http://champpenal.revues.org/7422)
Carrier, N. (2008b). Speech for the Defense of a Radically Constructivist Sociology of (Criminal) Law, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 36 (3), 168-183.
Carrier, N. (2007a). The Autonomy and Permeability of Law. The Case of the Canadian Prohibition of Cannabis, Canadian Journal of Law & Society, 22 (1), 123-138.
Carrier, N. (2006a). La dépression problématique du concept de contrôle social, Déviance & Société, 30 (1), 3-20.
Carrier, N. (2006b). Les criminels des universitaires. Les formations discursives de la déviance criminalisée, Champ pénal. Nouvelle revue française de criminologie, 3, mai 2006, [en ligne] : http://champpenal.revues.org/document528.html .
Carrier, N. (2006c). Academics’ Criminals. The Discursive Formations of Criminalized Deviance, Penal Field, 3, mai 2006, [online] : http://champpenal.revues.org/document3143.html
Carrier, N., J. Laplante, and J. Bruneau (2005). Exploring the Contingent Reality of Biomedicine. IDUs, HCV and Risk, Health, Risk & Society, 7 (2), 123-140.
Carrier, N. (2004a). Les vedettes de la prohibition du cannabis, Drogues, santé et société, numéro double, 2 (2) et 3 (1), 233-286.
Carrier, N. (2003a). Une dépolitisation hygiénique : les lieux d’injection de drogues illicites comme stratégie de « réduction des méfaits », Déviance & Société, 27 (1), 59-76.
Carrier, N., and P. Lauzon (2003). Se shooter en présence d’intervenants!? Les points de vue des consommateurs sur la mise en place éventuelle de lieux d’injection de drogues illicites à Montréal, Drogues, santé et société, 2 (1), 119-174.
Carrier, N., and B. Quirion. (2003). Les logiques de contrôle de l’usage des drogues illicites : la réduction des méfaits et l’efficience du langage de la périllisation, Drogues, santé et société, 2 (1), 9-73.
Carrier, N. (2000a). Discours de patrouilleurs montréalais sur la détection de l’infraction de possession … ou pour trouver le ver, encore faut-il pouvoir toucher la pomme, Psychotropes, Revue internationale des toxicomanies, 6 (4), 103-129.