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Areas of Interest<\/strong>
Public Safety
Corrections
Mental Health
Sociology
Criminology
Qualitative Inquiry
Gender
Policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses<\/strong>
SOCI 2450A (Crime and Society) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refereed Journal Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricciardelli, R., Carleton, R.N., Taillieu, T., Dorniani, S., Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> Ricciardelli, R., & Whitten, C. (2024). \u201cThat\u2019s not rehabilitation, that\u2019s enabling\u201d: Correctional officer perspectives on the Prison Needle Exchange Program. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(1), 66-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & Ricciardelli, R. (2024). Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers\u2019 perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 24(1), 291-312.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> Sanscartier, M.D., & Steckle, R. (2023). Patient resistance to psychiatric discourse and power. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(3-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S., <\/strong>Coulling, R., & Ricciardelli, R. (2022). Unpacking provincial Canadian correctional workers\u2019 experiences with transgender prisoners in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Criminology, 55(4), 550-567.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S., <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> Ricciardelli, R., & McKendy, L. (2022). Improving the mental health of correctional workers: Perspectives from the field. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(7), 951-970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gervais, C., & Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2022). Reconsidering reconciliation within families of youth who sexually offend. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(11-12), NP10093-NP10125.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanscartier, M.D., & Johnston, M.S. <\/strong>(2021). Learning the language of craft: A publishing workshop for graduate students. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(2), 197-210. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2020). Through madness and back again: An autoethnography of psychosis. Journal of Autoethnography, 1(2), 137-155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2020). \u201cHe sees patients as lesser people\u201d: Exploring mental health service users\u2019 critiques and appraisals of psychiatrists in Canada. Disability & Society, 35(2), 258-279.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steckle, R., Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & Sanscartier, M.D. (2020). Flying through the Cuckoo\u2019s nest: Countering the politics of agency in public criminology. Crime, Media, Culture. 16(2), 287-306. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S. <\/strong>(2019). When madness meets madness: Insider reflections on doing mental health research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S., <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coulling, R., & Johnston, M.S. <\/strong>(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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, G., & Johnston, M.S. <\/strong>(2017). \u201cWe fight for all living things\u201d: Countering misconceptions about the radical animal liberation movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(6), 735-751. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2016). Men can change: Transformation, agency, ethics and closure during critical dialogue in interviews. Qualitative Research, 16(2), 131-150. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & Kilty, J.M. (2016). \u201cIt\u2019s for their own good\u201d: Techniques of neutralization and security guard violence against psychiatric patients. Punishment & Society, 18(2), 177-197.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & Hodge, E. (2014). \u201cDirt, death and danger? I don\u2019t recall any adverse reaction\u2026\u201d: Masculinity and the taint management of hospital private security work. Gender, Work & Organization, 21(6), 546-558.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricciardelli, R., & Johnston, M.S. <\/strong>(2022). Police mental health and wellness. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.,<\/strong> & 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2018). \u201cPsychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology,\u201d edited by Bonnie Burstow (2016). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(1), 126-139. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricciardelli, R., Mario, B., Sibley, M.A., & Johnston, M.S.<\/strong> (2023). The Newfoundland and Labrador report on correctional worker experiences and ideas for future design at Her [His] Majesty\u2019s 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<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29641,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Matthew","cu_people_last_name":"Johnston","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10433","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-contract-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Contract Instructor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. (Carleton University), M.A. (University of Ottawa), BSocSc (University of Ottawa)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"matthew.johnston3@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29649,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10433\/revisions\/29649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10433"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}