Episode 10: Unlocking Hard to Access Research Sites: Tales of researching powerful criminal justice institutions

In this episode, we explore the idea of gaining research access to institutions like police agencies or corrections facilities. Securing access can be a complicated process with many barriers to entry, sometimes insurmountable for criminologists who want to conduct research on criminal justice or security institutions. Despite challenges, a large body of empirical criminological research has been published here in Canada and around the world. We speak to four researchers involved in some of those publications.

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Episode Contributors

• Executive Producers: Dr. Carrie Sanders (Director, Centre for Research on Security Practices and Professor, Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University) and Dr. Kevin Haggerty (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada)

With help from: Dr. Samantha Henderson

Guests

• Dr. Sandra Bucerius, Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
• Dr. Dale Spencer, Associate Professor, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
• Dr. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
• Dr. Beatrice Jauregui, Associate Professor, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Support and Funding for This Episode

• Brant Community Foundation

This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.