Nicolas Carrier
Associate Professor, ICCJ Director
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal, Sociology) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 4488 |
| Email: | nicolas.carrier@carleton.ca |
| Office: | C571 Loeb |
On Sabbatical July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022.
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. and J. Piché (2019). On (In)Justice: Undisciplined Abolitionism in Canada, Social Justice, forthcoming |
| Carrier, N., Piché, J. and K. Walby (2019). Abolitionism and Decarceration, in Deflem, M. (ed.), The Handbook of Social Control, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 469-487. |
| Carrier, N. and J. Piché (2015). Blind Spots of Abolitionist Thought in Academia: On Longstanding and Emerging Challenges, Champ pénal/Penal Field, XII, champpenal.revues.org |
| Carrier, N. and J. Piché (2015). The State of Abolitionism, Champ pénal/Penal Field, XII, champpenal.revues.org |
| 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), jtpcrim.org |
| 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), jtpcrim.org |
| Carrier, N. and K. Walby (2014). Ptolemizing Lombroso: The Pseudo-Revolution of Biosocial Criminology, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 6 (1), jtpcrim.org |
| Carrier, N. (2014). On Some Limits and Paradoxes of Academic Orations on Public Criminology, Radical Criminology, 4, radicalcriminology.org |
| Carrier, N. and A.S.J. Park (2013). On an Entrepreneurial Criminology of Mass Political Violence, Crime, Law & Social Change, 60 (3), 297-317. |
| Carrier, N. (2013). De la problématisation des usage(r)s de drogues illicites, Otero, M. and S. Roy (éds.), Qu’est-ce qu’un problème social aujourd’hui? Repenser la non-conformité, Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 249-277. |
| Carrier, N. (2011). Critical Criminology Meets Radical Constructivism, Critical Criminology, 19, 331-350. |
| Carrier, N. (2010). Anglophone Sociologies of the Punitive Turn: Critical Shyness, Totalizing and Reductive Perspectives, Champ pénal/Penal Field, VII, champpenal.revues.org |
| 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. (2008). La Politique de la stupéfaction. Pérennité de la prohibition des drogues, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes. |
| Carrier, N. (2008). 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. (2007). 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. (2006). La dépression problématique du concept de contrôle social, Déviance & Société, 30 (1), 3-20. |
| Carrier, N. (2006). Academics’ Criminals. The Discursive Formations of Criminalized Deviance, Champ pénal/Penal Field, III, champpenal.revues.org |
| Carrier, N. (2004). Les vedettes de la prohibition du cannabis, Drogues, santé et société, numéro double, 2 (2) et 3 (1), 233-286. |
| Carrier, N. (2003). 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. |