Jaime Snow ( She/Her )

PhD Candidate

Jaime is a PhD student in the department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Her doctoral research focuses on the symbiotic harms of incarceration, specifically how the mother-child relationship comes to be (re)shaped by incarceration. Her general research interests include critical prison studies, families and incarceration, and carceral geography.

Supervisor

Megan Gaucher

Education

Master of Arts in Criminology with a specialization in Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa (2024)

Joint Honours Bachelor of Social Science in Criminology and Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa (2022)

Teaching Experience

CRCJ4400: Emotions, Affect, and Criminology

Selected Presentations

Martinez Magarzo, Q and Snow, J. (2025, August). Neoliberalism, Gender, and Carceral Policy in Argentina and the United States. Paper presented at the International ECRIM (University of A Coruña) New Right, Authoritarianism, and Penalty Conference in A Coruña, Spain.

Snow, J. (2025, May). Chair of the Margins in Motion: Identity, Exile, and Resistance in Global Peripheries. Panel Presentation at Carleton University’s Graduate Legal Studies Student Association (GLSA) 18th Annual Conference Sociolegal Inquiries in Our Global in Ottawa, Ontario.

Snow, J. (2025, May). (En)gendering Risk and the Paradox of Carceral Inclusivity: Making Up Transgender Prisoners in Ontario Correctional Policy. Paper presented at Carleton University’s Graduate Legal Studies Student Association (GLSA) 18th Annual Conference Sociolegal Inquiries in Our Global Unknown in Ottawa, Ontario.

Snow, J. (2025, May). (En)gendering Risk and the Paradox of Carceral Inclusivity: Making Up Transgender Prisoners in Ontario Correctional Policy. Paper Presented at Transforming Justice a Joint National Conference of Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies in Victoria, British Columbia.

Snow, J. (2023, May). “It is just so Emotionally and Mentally Consuming to be a Community Organizer”: The Emotional Labour of Anti-Carceral Activism. Paper presented at Critical Perspectives Criminology & Social Justice / Perspectives Critiques Criminologie & Justice Sociale 12th National Conference in Ottawa, Ontario.

Snow, J and Bell, D. (2021, December). Lessons from Critical Resistance: Tools for the Fight Against the Proposed Kemptville Prison. An invited talk for an organized community activist discussion panel over Zoom, Kemptville, Ontario.

Publications

Snow, J., Kilty, J. M., & Gervais, C. (2024). “It is just so emotionally and mentally consuming to be a community organizer”: The Emotional Labour of Anti-carceral Activism. Studies in Social Justice, 18(3), 628-647.https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i3.4364