MaDonna Maidment

MaDonna Maidment completed her doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. A native of St. John's, she completed her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Sociology at Memorial University. Professor Maidment has worked as a researcher and policy analyst on a range of socio-economic issues including aboriginal resource development, fisheries and aquaculture policy, petroleum resource development, adult probation, and wrongful convictions.

Research Area(s): 
Her publications and research interests focus in the areas of feminist criminologies, (in)formal social controls, sociology of punishment, electronic surveillance technologies, and wrongful convictions.
Selected Publications: 

Maidment, MaDonna. 2009. When Justice is a Game: Unravelling Wrongful Convictions in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing

Maidment, MaDonna R. 2006. Doing Time on the Outside: Deconstructing the Benevolent Community. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. 201 pp. 

Maidment, MaDonna. 2006. “Passing the Buck: Transcarceral Regulation  of Criminalized Women After Prison.” In Comack, Elizabeth and Balfour,  Gillian (eds.). Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)justice in  Neo-Liberal Times. Halifax: Fernwood. 267-81. 

Maidment, MaDonna. 2006. “Transgressing Boundaries: Feminist  Perspectives in Criminology” In DeKeseredy, Walter and Perry, Barb.  (eds.). Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 43-62. 

Maidment, MaDonna. 2006. “Traversing the Fine Line of Conformity:  Reflections on Researching the Lives of Criminalized Women.” In  Cullum, Linda; McGrath, Carmelita; Porter, Marilyn. (eds.). Weather’s  Edge: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Compendium. St. John’s:  Killick Press. 146-62. 

Maidment, MaDonna. (Forthcoming). ““We’re Not all that Criminal”:  Getting Beyond the Pathologizing and Individualizing of Women’s  Crime.” Women & Therapy: Challenging Correctional Discourses (Special  Edition). [Published simultaneously in, Leeder, E. (ed.) Inside and  Out: Women, Prison and Therapy. 

Email: 
mmaidmen@uoguelph.ca
Phone: 
53342
Office Number: 
636
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Guelph

Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1
Canada

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