Donald Clairmont
Emeritus Professor
Email: donald.clairmont@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Education
- BA, MA, McMaster
- PhD, Washington at St. Louis
Research interests
Dr. Clairmont's chief area of research is social problems and social policy. Under this rubric he has in recent years concentrated on the sociology of work and industrial organization, race relations and deviance/criminology. His current research investigates changes in policing styles, the development of alternative justice systems and research on native and visible minority justice issues. He is Director of the Atlantic Institute of Criminology.
Selected publications
- 2013.聽 鈥淐ommunity Policing in Aboriginal Communities in Canada: A Best Practice鈥 in M.Nalla and G.Newman, Community Policing in Indigenous Communities Michigan State University.
- 2013. 鈥淭he Development of an Aboriginal Justice System: The Case of聽 Elsipogtog鈥 in University of New Brunswick Law Journal, vol. 64.
- 2009. 鈥淯sing the Victim Role as Both Sword and Shield: The Interactional Dynamics of Restorative Justice Sessions鈥, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 279-307 (in collaboration with J. Scott Kenny).
- 2008. 鈥淜nowledge and Attitudes of Criminal Justice Professionals in relation to Fetal Alcohol Disorder鈥 Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (in collaboration with Lori Cox).
- 2007. 鈥淎fricville鈥, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- 鈥淧enetrating the Walls: Implementing a System-Wide Restorative Justice Approach in the Justice System鈥 in Elliot, E. and R.M. Gordon (eds). New Directions in Restorative Justice.聽 Portland: Willan Publishing 2005.