Areas of InterestPublic SafetyCorrectionsMental HealthSociologyCriminologyQualitative InquiryGenderPolicy
Courses SOCI 2450A (Crime and Society)
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Ricciardelli, R., Carleton, R.N., Taillieu, T., Dorniani, S., Johnston, M.S., Carbonell, M., Coulling, R., Andres, E., & Afifi, T.O. (2024). Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health. Journal of Criminal Justice, 91, 1-11.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & Whitten, C. (2024). “That’s not rehabilitation, that’s enabling”: Correctional officer perspectives on the Prison Needle Exchange Program. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(1), 66-85.
Johnston, M.S., & Ricciardelli, R. (2024). Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers’ perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 24(1), 291-312.
Johnston, M.S., Sanscartier, M.D., & Steckle, R. (2023). Patient resistance to psychiatric discourse and power. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(3-4).
Johnston, M.S., Coulling, R., & Ricciardelli, R. (2022). Unpacking provincial Canadian correctional workers’ experiences with transgender prisoners in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Criminology, 55(4), 550-567.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & McKendy, L. (2022). Fight or flight? Exploring suicide thoughts, experiences, and behaviours among correctional workers and their interventions of agency. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(9), 1500-1516.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & McKendy, L. (2022). Improving the mental health of correctional workers: Perspectives from the field. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(7), 951-970.
Gervais, C., & Johnston, M.S. (2022). Reconsidering reconciliation within families of youth who sexually offend. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(11-12), NP10093-NP10125.
Sanscartier, M.D., & Johnston, M.S. (2021). Learning the language of craft: A publishing workshop for graduate students. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(2), 197-210.
Johnston, M.S. (2020). Through madness and back again: An autoethnography of psychosis. Journal of Autoethnography, 1(2), 137-155.
Johnston, M.S. (2020). “He sees patients as lesser people”: Exploring mental health service users’ critiques and appraisals of psychiatrists in Canada. Disability & Society, 35(2), 258-279.
Steckle, R., Johnston, M.S., & Sanscartier, M.D. (2020). Flying through the Cuckoo’s nest: Countering the politics of agency in public criminology. Crime, Media, Culture. 16(2), 287-306.
Johnston, M.S. (2019). When madness meets madness: Insider reflections on doing mental health research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-13.
Johnston, M.S., Sanscartier, M.D., & Johnston, G. (2018). Dirty work, dirty resistance: Digital warfare in the era of precarious labor. Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie, 55(2), 278-297.
Johnston, M.S., & Steckle, R. (2018). Psychiatric post-anarchism: A new direction for insurrection in the mental health system. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 7, 232-257.
Coulling, R., & Johnston, M.S. (2018). The criminal justice system on trial: Shaming, outrage, and gendered tensions in public responses to the Jian Ghomeshi verdict. Crime, Media, Culture, 14(2), 311-331.
Johnston, G., & Johnston, M.S. (2017). “We fight for all living things”: Countering misconceptions about the radical animal liberation movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(6), 735-751.
Johnston, M.S. (2016). Men can change: Transformation, agency, ethics and closure during critical dialogue in interviews. Qualitative Research, 16(2), 131-150.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2016). “It’s for their own good”: Techniques of neutralization and security guard violence against psychiatric patients. Punishment & Society, 18(2), 177-197.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2015). You gotta kick ass a little harder than that: The subordination of feminine, masculine, and queer identities by private security in a hospital setting. Men and Masculinities, 18(1), 55-78.
Johnston, M.S., & Hodge, E. (2014). “Dirt, death and danger? I don’t recall any adverse reaction…”: Masculinity and the taint management of hospital private security work. Gender, Work & Organization, 21(6), 546-558.
Book Chapters
Ricciardelli, R., & Johnston, M.S. (2022). Police mental health and wellness. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2014). Power, control and coercion: Exploring hyper-masculine performativity by private guards in a psychiatric ward setting. In D. Holmes, J.D. Jacob, & A. Perron (Eds.), Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance (pp. 61-90). Ashgate.
Book Reviews
Johnston, M.S. (2018). “Psychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology,” edited by Bonnie Burstow (2016). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(1), 126-139.
Reports
Ricciardelli, R., Mario, B., Sibley, M.A., & Johnston, M.S. (2023). The Newfoundland and Labrador report on correctional worker experiences and ideas for future design at Her [His] Majesty’s Penitentiary. Newfoundland and Labrador Justice and Public Safety and Workplace NL. 54 pages. Available: https://nape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Correctional-Worker-Experiences-and-Ideas_2023_Report_FINAL.pdf
