Course: Correctional Practice & Policy

Alicia Horton, PhD, is a faculty member of the Department of Criminology, at Douglas College in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Horton graduated from Queen’s University – Department of Sociology with her dissertation on Clashes in Confinement: Men’s Experiences with Conflict in Canadian Prison. Dr. Horton has experience with field research, participant observation and in-depth qualitative interviewing with hard to reach populations. Her research interests include prison culture, prison violence and conflict survival strategies, research ethics, body studies and popular criminology. Theoretical interest in gender and masculinities, symbolic interactionist, constructionist and social problems theories.