CURRICULUM VITAE

INTRODUCTION (Contact; Degrees; Employment History; Honours and Awards.)
SCHOLARLY & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (Executive/Editorial; Organizing; Editing; Reviewing.)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (Graduate Supervisorships; Courses Taught)
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (Funded R&D; Unfunded R&D; Travel Grants; Addresses)
PUBLICATIONS (Thesis; Books; Chapters; Refereed journal articles; Non-refereed articles; Ethnodigitographical visual essays; Published conference proceedings; Unpublished conference papers; Other publications--book reviews, interviews, etc.)
WORK IN PROGRESS

Addresses: Offices:

1) Digital Praxis/Imaging Transformation International,
Ste 44, 140 Wellesley St. E., Toronto, Ont. M4Y 1J1. CANADA.
tel: (416) 961-3617; email: gordwest@idirect.com;
website: http://webhome@idirect.com/~gordwest/

2) Rittenhouse, A New Vision for Transformative Justice
157 Carlton St., Ste 202, Toronto, ON, M5A 2K3, CANADA.
tel (416) 972-9992; fax (416) 923-8742;
email: ritten@interlog.com
website: http://interlog.com/~ritten/

Permanent (Parental) Address:
15 Southwood Cres., Belleville, Ont., K8N 1X4, Canada;
tel: (613) 966-5442.

DEGREES:

Ph.D.-Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., USA., Department of Sociology, 1974.
M.A.-Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., USA., Department of Sociology, 1970.
B.A.-York University, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Department of Sociology, 1968.
B.A.A.--Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ont., Canada, School of Image Arts, New Media, 1999.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

1994-present: Director, Digital Praxis/Imaging Transformation International.
1994-present: Research and Development Associate, Rittenhouse: A New Vision of Transformative Justice.
1995-1997 Promotions Assistant, Student Services, Ryerson Polytechnic University.
1980-1994 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; cross-appointed to Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto.
1978-1980 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
1976-1978 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
1974-1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, OISE.
1972-1974 Lecturer, Department of Sociology, OISE.
1970-1971 Boys Club Worker (part-time), Division St. YMCA, Chicago.
1970-1971 Teaching Assistant, (part-time) Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.
1967-1969 Detached Youth Worker, Toronto YMCA.
1966-Research Assistant (participant observer), Ontario Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Penetanguishene, Ontario.
1963-1965 Camp Counsellor/Section Head, University Settlement House (summers).

HONOURS and AWARDS:

--May-June, 1992. Invited Visiting Lecturer, The Department of Education, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
--1990 Visiting Researcher, La Comision Nacional para la Promocion y Proteccion de Derechos Humanos (CNPPDH), Managua, Nicaragua, (Feb-April).
--1985 Visiting Researcher, Corte Suprema de Justicia, Managua, Nicaragua (Jan-May).
--1979 Visiting Lecturer, M.A. Social Policy and Social Deviance, Middlesex Polytechnic, Queensway, Enfield, Middlesex, U.K. (July-Dec.)
--1970-7l, 71-72, 72-73 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowships.
--1971 - 1972 Partial Tuition Scholarship, Northwestern University.
--1970 - 1971 Department of Sociology Grant, Northwestern.
--1970 Summer Fellowship, Program in Law and the Social Sciences, Northwestern University and the Russell Sage Foundation.
--1969 - 1970 University Fellowship, Northwestern University.
--1968 Winters College Award, York University.
--1966 World University Service Travel Fellowship.
--1964 - 1966 University Scholarships, York University.
--1964 - 1965 Governors' Scholarships, York University.
--1964 Ontario Scholarship.

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a)Executive and editorial positions:

--Member, Board of Directors, Rittenhouse: A New Vision of Transformative Justice, 2000-present.
--Member of Local Conference Committee, & Chair, subcommittee on Publicity and Communications, for Ninth International Conference on Penal Abolition, 1998-2000.
Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Law and Society Association, 1992-5.
--Invited Assessor, Research Proposals in Sociology, Criminology, Media, and Cultural Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 1992, 1993 (declined for reasons of personal obligations)
--Consultant/Programme Assessor for Carleton University. RE: Proposal for establishment of Ph.D. Programme in Law and Society to Ontario Council for Academic Programmes (OCAP). Feb. 1989.
--Normal departmental committee responsibilities (including Chair of Ed.D and M.Ed. Admissions Committee, Graduate Studies Academic Secretary; Ed.D. Co-ordinator; Off-Campus Programmes Coordinator; Admissions Committee Chair; most lately: member of Awards and Assistantships Committee; Chair of Research and Development/Ethics Committee; Chair of Graduate Programmes Committee); also Institute positions (as member of Graduate Studies Standing Committee; Off-Campus Programmes Committee; Institute Programmes Committee.)
--Visiting Speakers' Committee, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto: chair 1984-6; member 1986-8 [major responsibility: weekly visitors, responsible for accomodation, food, and interview arrangements.($5000 annual budget)]

Organizing:

--Member, International Circle of Penal Abolitionists, and advisor to the Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition, Abuja, Nigeria, 2002
--Chair, session on "Performing Activity", in "Studying Lived Human Experience: Symbolic Interaction and Ethnographic Research, '93", University of Waterloo. May 1993.
--Session on "Revolution, Crime, and Justice", for the American Society of Criminology meetings, Chicago, Nov. 1988.
--Session on "International Law and International Crime" for the joint meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association at the Learned Societies Meetings at McMaster University, Hamilton,1987.
--Session on "Critical Ethnography" for CSSE, Guelph, 1984.
--Session on "Delinquency and Youth Marginalization" for CSAA, Guelph, 1984.
--Session on "State Knowledge and Control of Subcultures" for Ontario ASA, 1983, Toronto.
--Sessions on "Youth Culture and Delinquency" and roundtable on "Prospects for Radical Criminology in Canada", CSAA, Vancouver, June 1983.
--Two sessions on "Law and Ideology", CSAA meetings, Ottawa, 1982.
--Session in "Sociology of Law", CSAA annual meeting, Halifax, June 1981.
--Session on "Theoretical Perspectives in Criminology: The Radical/Conflict Approach", CSAA annual meetings, Saskatoon, June 1979.
--(with M. Morton and L. Snider) Workshop on Critical Issues in Justice and Society, Queen's University, March 10-11, 1978.
--Two sessions on "New Directions in Deviance: I. Criminology and II. Delinquency", Canadian Sociology & Anthropology Association annual meetings, Edmonton, Alta., May 1975.

Editing:

--Contributing Editor, Zonezero: From Analogue to Digital Photography, http://www.zonezero.com
--Editor, JUSTRITT News web-journal, 1999-present http://www.interlog.com/~ritten
--Editor, ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: web-journal for IMAGING CULTURES ELECTRONICALLY, 1999-present. http://webhome/idirect.com/~gordwest/
--Consulting Editor, International Journal of Comparative Criminology. 1995-97
--Editorial Board, Journal of Human Justice, 1988-1995
--Editor, Bath Tymes, Bath Institution, Correctional Services Canada. 1994-5.
--Invited Guest Editor, "Violence in The Schools/Schooling in the Violence" Orbit. OISE Toronto: 1993. vol 24, No., 1. 34 pp.
--Consulting Editor, Interchange on Educational Policy, June 1978-1994.
--Consulting Editor, Poder y Control [Power and Control] Barcelona, 1986-89.
--Editorial consultant to the Institute of Social Security and Welfare (INSSBI), Managua, Nicaragua, to establish a new journal Justice for Children: The Nicaraguan Journal of Child Welfare, for publication in English and Spanish. 1986-7.
--Board Member, Network for Educational Publishing, 1983-84.
--Consulting Editor, Crime et/and Justice, 1978-80.
--Interchange Special Double Issue "Children's Rights (guest editor, with H. Berkeley, and C.Gaffield), 8(1-2), 1977, 209 pp.

Reviewing:

On Research Proposals:

--Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, all major proposals in Sociology, Criminology, Media, and Cultural Studies (declined because of personal obligations) 1992, 1993.
--on Delinquency, SSHRCC, Jan 1990.
--on Mobilization of the Third World Poor, SSHRCC, 1988.
--on Adolescence, SSHRCC, Jan, 1988
--on Classroom Deviance Research, SSHRCC, January 1986.
--on Rural Policing Research, SSHRCC, January 1986.
--on History of Crime Research, SSHRCC, January 1986
--on Educational Law, for Canada Council, 1983.
--on Juvenile Court Research for Canada Council, 1983.
--on classroom research, for Canada Council, 1982.
--on cultural studies, for Canada Council, Summer 1982.
--for Canadian Mental Health Foundation, December 1981.
--on Juvenile Court Research, Canada Council, May 1979.
--on Classroom Research, Canada Council, May 1977.

On Publications:

--ms on Social Work, for Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, SSHRCC, Feb 1993.
--On State and Crime, for UBC Press, 1987.
--article for Crime and Social Justice, 1987
--on Criminology Textbook, Methuen. Oct. 1986
--Chapter on Criminology, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986.
--articles for Canadian Criminology Forum, 1985-1994
--articles for Canadian Journal of Sociology, October 1982, January 1983, April 1985, December 1985.
--articles for Sociology of Education, October 1981,1983.
--articles for Canadian Journal of Criminology, October 1981, April 1983, September 1985, January 1986.
--M.S. on Sociology of Education, Methuen,1980.
--articles for Curriculum Inquiry, May 1981, and November 1981.
--Ms. on Sociology of Education, Clark Irwin, 1980.
--articles for Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, June 1978, November 1985, January/March 1986, Jan 1987.
--articles for Crime and/et Justice, January 1979.
--Ms. on Barriers to Equality, McClelland and Stewart, December 1978.
--Ms. on Delinquency, McClelland and Stewart, May 1978.
--Ms. on Crime and Delinquency, Prentice-Hall, February 1978.
--Ms. on Teaching in Canada, Carleton Library, February 1978, and January 1979.
--articles for Canadian Journal of Education, June 1976, June 1977, May 1978, June 1978, November 1980, 1981, January 1982.
--Ms. on Crime in Canada, McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
--articles for Sociological Inquiry, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976.
--articles for American Sociological Review, January 1975, September 1975.

b) Memberships:

--International Circle of Penal Abolitionists
--American Society of Criminology
--Canadian Law and Society Association, Director, 1992-5.
--Canadian Society for the Study of Education
--Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
--International Sociological Association (R.C.'s on Deviance, Law, Youth, Childhood)
--Canadian Association of Latin American and Carribean Studies
--La Sociedad Mexicana de Criminologia
--La Sociedad de Criminologia Comparada
--El Grupo de Criminologia Critica

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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT: (Queens and Guelph)

Sociology of Education
Deviance
Social Problems
Crime and Delinquency
Penology
Introductory Research Methods
Field/Qualitative Research Methods
Undergraduate Thesis Seminar

GRADUATE (MA/PhD) COURSES TAUGHT:

1917--Education, Gender, and Masculinity (OISE)
1920--Comparative Adolescence: the Reproduction of Race, Gender, Class and Imperialism through Age (formerly: Comparative Socialization, Adolescence, and Education) (OISE)
1926--Student Deviance, Resistance, and Educational Transformation (formerly Adolescent Deviance and the School; Student Deviance and School Response) (OISE)
1950--Marxism and Education (OISE)
1990--Applied Sociological Field Research in Education (formerly Applied Sociology in Education) (OISE)
1995/3995--Ed.D. Practicuum I (OISE)
3927--Issues in Education, Deviance and Legitimacy (OISE)
3935--Revolutionary Movements and Education (OISE)
3996--Ed.D. Practicuum II (OISE)
1050--Crime and Control in Social and Political Perspective (Centre of Criminology)
2010--Introductory Methodology (Centre of Criminology, Queens)
2020--Qualitative Research Methods (Centre of Criminology)
3310--The New Criminologies (Centre of Criminology)
1952/3952--Reading courses: (various topics, e.g.: Teacher Deviance; Masculinity, Intellectuals and Revolution, Sociology of Law, Special Education, Marginal Youth, Female Youth Culture, Alternative Correctional Education, Nicaraguan Education, Vocational Education, etc)

CAREER NUMBER OF STUDENT THESES:

a) Supervisorships

B.A. 10 completed
M.A.: 17 completed
Ed.D.: 6 completed
Ph.D.: 7 completed

b) Memberships

M.A.: 21 completed
Ed.D.: 12 completed
Ph.D.: 28 completed
D.S.W.: 1 completed

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a) Funded Research and Field Development Activities:

--1977 - 1980 (Individual) With M.E. Morton, Queen's. A Research Evaluation of the Frontenac Juvenile Diversion Programme, Federal Ministry of the Solicitor-General, $25,000, contract research.
--1980 - 1983 (Individual) Relationship of School Failure, Classroom Delinquency, Special Education and Delinquency, OISE small scale, $1600 + $600 + $300, bibliographic searches, literature reviews, preparatory fieldwork and proposal development.
--1981 - 1984 (Group) Production of Writing Materials and Workshop in the Area of Cultural Reproduction, OISE small scale, $600 + $3000 + $2000 + $2000. Production of writing materials and workshops.
--1982 (Individual) Research Methods in Theft Study, Vera Institute of Criminal Justice, New York City, $300, research/consultant.
--1982 - 1983 (Group) With N. Rowen and D. Hart. Vocational Education. OISE.
--1983 - 1986 (Individual) Participatory Research Among Marginal Latin American Youth, OISE small scale $300 + $550 + $1000.
--1985 - 1988 (Group) With K. Rockhill, J. Farrell, E. Sullivan. OISE-Chile Educational Project. IDRC, $180,000. The Co-operative Project between OISE and el Programa Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Educacion (PIIE) and el Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Educacion (CIDE) in Santiago Chile, as a member of the Education and Work (Youth and Marginality) subgroup.
--1986. Seminario sobre la Etnografia Critica. [Seminar on Critical Ethnography] to PIIE and CIDE staff, Santiago Chile. Nov. 17-20.
--1986-7-8 (individual) Manuscript Preparation: Just Revolution $1000 + $700 + $600
--1988-9 (individual) Human Rights in Latin America ($800)
--1989-90 (individual) Human Justice Education in Nicaragua ($710)
--1990-91 (individual) Educating Masculinity ($600)
--1991-92 (individual) The Informal Education of Pre-Adolescent Males in Sports and Recreation ($605)
--1992-93-94 (Individual) Gender, Sports, and Masculinity. ($422 + $400)
--1999-2000 (Individual) Consulting Grant to establish on-line newsletter for ICOPA and Rittenhouse ($650)

Travel Grants:

1) Westhill Sociology of Education Conference, Selly Oak, Birmingham, Jan. 1979, Guelph - $600.
2) Committee of Socialist Economists, Leeds, U.K., June 1979. Guelph - $600.
3) a. I.S.A. Education "Origins and Operations of Education Systems, Paris, France, August 7-8, 1980. SSHRCC-$336.
b. Universite de Montreal - GRIJ "Seminaire Avance Sur Mineurs", Ste. Agathe, Quebec, August 1980.
4) Ethnography in Education, Philadelphia, March 1981. OISE -$250.
5) a. Universite de Montreal - GRIJ, Ste. Agathe, Quebec, May 1981. Sol. Gen. - $250.
b. CSAA/CSSE, Halifax, N.S., May 1981. OISE - $234.
6) a. Ethnography in Education, Philadelphia, March 1982.
b. AERA, New York, March 1982. OISE - $250.
7) I.S.A. Mexico City, August 1982. OISE/SSHRCC - $550.
8) Westhill Sociology of Education Conference: "Ethnography, Structure, Crisis", Selly Oak, Birmingham, U.K., January 1983. SSHRCC - $677.
9) CSAA/CSSE, Vancouver, B.C., May-June 1983. CSSE - $350.
10) Asociacion Latinoamericana de Sociologia "Participacion Popular", Managua, Nicaragua, October 1983. SSHRCC - $655.
11) I.S.A. "Crime and Development", San Jose, Costa Rica, December 17-19, 1984. $859.
12) a. Sociedad Mexicana de Criminologia, Mexico, October 1985.
b. Sociedad de Criminologia Comparada,Managua, Nicaragua, September 1985.
c. El Grupo de Criminologia Critica, Managua, Nicaragua, September 1985. Centre of Criminology - $500, OISE Travel -$500.
13) "La Criminologia en America Latina-Balance y Perspectivas", Merida, Venezuela, November 1985. SSHRCC -$l,196.
14) "Social Change" International Sociological Association, New Delhi, India, Aug 1986. SSHRCC- $2003
15) "El Crimen Internacional del Estado", El Grupo de Criminologia Critica, and "El Proyecto de Control Social", La Sociedad de Criminologia Comparada", La Habana Cuba, Sept 1986. OISE $500
16) "Primer Seminario Sobre los Sistemas Penetenciarios de America", Managua, Nicaragua, Sept 1986. La Corte Suprema de Nicaragua. $500.
17) "La Conyuntura Actual" CIDE and PIIE, Santiago Chile, Nov 1986. OISE-Chile Cooperative Project: $2000
18) "Crime Prevention Through Social Development" Canadian Council on Social Development, Ottawa, Feb 1987. $400.
19) "Central America In Crisis: Democracy, Development and Change" St.Mary's University in Halifax sponsored by the Canadian Association of Latin American and Carribean Studies. March, 1987, $500.
20) "Crime in Different Social Systems", La Habana, Cuba, July, 1987. OISE. $900.
21) "American Society of Criminology Meetings" Montreal, Nov.1987, OISE/SSHRCC, $350.
22) "Canadian Law and Society Meetings" Windsor, June, 1988. $150. OISE/SSHRCC.
23) "American Society of Criminology Meetings", Chicago, Nov, 1988. $300, OISE/SSHRCC.
24) Research leave/Faculty Development Grant, Managua, Nicaragua: 1990 Visiting Researcher, @i(La Comision Nacional para la Promocion y Proteccion de Derechos Humanos), Managua, Nicaragua, (Feb-April). $1300
25) "Justice in the Global Village", Amsterdam, and "Post-Congress", Onati, Espana, June/July, 1991, $1100.
26) "Boys, Sports, and Violence", University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. June 1992. $1000
27)"Abolitionism in Canadian Juvenile Justice" for 6th International Conference on Penal Abolition, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 2-5, 1993($620)
28) ICOPA IX Conference: 1900-2000, ($381)

Unfunded Research and/or Field Development

--1979 Individual (faculty leader). Conference on Educational Accountability, Westhill Teacher's College, Selly Oak, Birmingham.
--1980 - 1981 Individual (principal investigator). Development and Utilization of Participant Observation Methodology in OAIP.
--1980 - 1982 Individual (consultant). Adventure Education Concept - Harbourfront Adventure Playground (schools programme).
--1984 - 1988 Group (with V. Nunez de Escorcia, etc.) El Projecto Comparado de Control Social (The Comparative Social Control Project), Nicaraguan Component.
--1985 - 1988 Individual. Justice in Nicaragua.
--1986 Individual. Consultation Conference on Young Offenders Act, Oct. 25, 1985. Solicitor General.
--December 1986 individual. Consultation with the International Development Research Council regarding crime and delinquency in Latin America.
--December 1986-1989. Member of the Programme Committee of Save the Children Canada (CANSAVE) (advising on an annual $6,000,000 community development programme in some dozen third world countries.)
-volunteer coach, local hockey and baseball teams. 1989-92.
--volunteer Cub Pack leader, 1991-2.
--tutor, Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, Introductory Computors, Education Centre, Bath Institution, Correctional Service Canada. 1994.
--member, Centro Nicaraguense de Derechos Humanos (CENIDH) 1990-present.
--Volunteer, Prisoner self-help groups, Millhaven Institution and Bath Institution, 1994-5
--Volunteer, Parolee self-help groups, Frank Greive House, Toronto, 1995
--Volunteer, Rittenhouse: A New Vision for Transformative Justice (various projects) 1995-2000

Addresses unpublished:

"Discussant's Critique of Educational Research: In Praise of Multi-Method Studies", session on "Qualitative-Quantitative Study of Student Subcultures in an Alternative High School", AERA annual meeting, Chicago, l974.
"Discussant's Comments on the State of Sociology of Education in Canada", Canadian Educational Research Association (CSSE) annual meeting, Edmonton, l975.
"Schooling and Adolescent Oppression", for Workshop on Education and the Development of the Total Human Being, Queen's University, Nov. 22-24, 1977.
"Evaluating Legal Reforms", Sociology Dept., Carlton University, Nov. 1977. February 1978, McMaster University. February 1978, Guelph University.
"The Pendulum Swings to Standards (and Pupil Deviance): Canadian Educational Politics", Sociology of Education Conference, Westhill College, Birmingham, England, Jan. 2-4, 1979.
"Children's Rights: From Liberation to Protection", University of Guelph, March 1979.
"Adolescent Autonomy, Education, and Pupil Deviance: Implications for Children's Rights", Faculty of Education, University of York, England, June 21, 1979; University College Cardiff, October 1979; Westhill Teacher's College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, November 1979; Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Wolverhampton, November 1979.
"The Possibility of a Marxist Ethnography", Sociology, London School of Economics, October 1979; Middlesex Polytechnic, December 1979; Polytechnic of the South Bank, November 1979.
"Participant Observation Research Methods", Middlesex Polytechnic, November 1979; December 1979.
"Implications of Recent European Theories of the State for Canadian Criminology", Canadian Association for Criminological Research, Ottawa, March 1980.
"Educational Research, State Policy and Ideology", Sociology in Education, OISE, May 1980.
"Policing the Culture", Sociology in Education, OISE, May 1981.
"Subject Selection and Effects in the Frontenac Diversion Programme", (with M.E. Morton), Symposium on Pre-Trial Service, Solicitor-General, Toronto: July 1981.
"Schooling and Deviance" for the Lakehead Board of Education, Thunder Bay, Ont., December 1981.
"The Search for a Method in Birmingham and Elsewhere", Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies Workgroup, OISE, July 1982.
"Macro-Micro Level Qualitative Research: Participating Observantly and Critically" and "Reconceptualizing Deviance" for Dublin Institute of Adult Education, Dublin, Ireland, January 10-11, 1983.
"Comments on Critical Ethnography" session on Ethnographic Research, OISE-Chile Educational Project, October 1985, OISE, Toronto.
"American State Terrorism in Nicaragua", LaMarsh Centre for the Study of Violence, York University, December 1985.
"Progressive Correctional Education in Nicaragua" to the Annual Conference of the Ontario Probation Officers Association, Toronto, Nov 2, 1987.
"Serious Third World Alternatives in Youth Crime Prevention: the Nicaraguan Experience" John Howard Society of Ontario, Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching, Oct., 1988.
"Canadian Children and Culture", Fa'alal'lei Elementary School, Western Samoa, May 1992.
"Boys, Sports, and Violence", University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. June 1992.
"Violence in the Schools", OISE Forum on School Violence, Apr. 1993.
"Issues in Parole Release", Offender Treatment Program, Beaver Creek Institution, Gravenhurst, ON, Canada. May 1995.
"Photodocumentary and Visual Ethnography in a Postmodern Digital World: From Positivist Empiricist Pomposity towards a Critique of Photo-electric Representation" Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1996.
"Deconstructing Delphic Drivel: Ontologically and Epistemologically Unravelling Some Political Knots Regarding "Interpassivity" and "Notworking", Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1998
"Theoretical Issues in Penal Abolition", to ICOPA Regional Meeting, September, 1998. Toronto
"Foundations of Penal Abolition", to Rittenhouse/ICOPA, Feb., 2000. Toronto.
"Faith, Social Science, and Political/Legal Grounds for Penal Abolition", to session on "Introduction to Penal Abolition", ICOPA IX, May 10th, 2000, Metropolitan United Church, Toronto, Canada.
"New Technologies to Support Penal Abolition, Using the Net", Ninth International Conference on Penal Abolition, Toronto, May 12, 2000.

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a) Doctoral thesis:

Serious Thieves: Lower-Class Adolescent Males in a Short-term Deviant Occupation, 1974, 348 pp. Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill, USA. (also avail at University of Toronto, Centre of Criminology)

b) (i) Books

Children's Rights in Canada: Legal and Educational Issues, (edited, with H. Berkeley and C. Gaffield) Toronto: OISE, 177 pp. [revised from Interchange Special Double issue "Children's Rights", 8(1-2), 1977.]

Young Offenders and the State: A Canadian Perspective on Delinquency, Toronto: Butterworths, 1984, 266 pp.

Modernizacion: Un Desafio Para la Educacion [Modernization: A Challenge for Education] (compiled/edited, with M. Cerri, L.-E. Gonzales). Santiago: CIDE/PIIE/UNESCO-OREALC. 1988. 769 pp.

The Case for Penal Abolition, (edited, with Ruth Morris), Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2000. 362pp.

(ii) Chapters in books, review articles

"Children's Rights in the Canadian Context" (with C.Gaffield) in H. Berkeley, C. Gaffield and W.G. West(eds.) Children's Rights in Canada: Legal and Educational Issues, Toronto: OISE, 1978, pp. 1-14.

"Serious Thieves: Lower-Class Adolescent Males in a Short-term Deviant Occupation", in E. Vaz and A. Lodhi (eds.) Crime and Delinquency in Canada, Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1979, pp. 247-69.

"Serious Thieves: Lower-Class Adolescent Males in a Short-term Deviant Occupation", reprinted in K. Ishwaran (ed.) Childhood and Adolescence in Canada, Toronto: McGraw-Hill-Ryerson, 1979, pp. 322-44.

"Adolescent Autonomy, Education and Pupil Deviance", in L. Barton and R. Meighan (eds.) Schools, Pupils and Deviance, Driffield, England: Nafferton, 1979, pp. 151-72.

"Access to Adolescent Deviants and Deviance", in W. Shaffir, R. Stebbins, and A. Turowetz (eds.) Fieldwork Experience, New York: St. Martin's, 1980, pp. 31-44.

"A Critical Perspective on Law in the Canadian State: Delinquency and Corporate Crime" (with D.L. Snider) in R.J. Ossenberg (ed.) Power and Change in Canada, 1980, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, pp. 199-245.

"The Short Term Careers of Serious Thieves", in R.A. Silverman and J.J. Teevan (eds.) Crime in Canadian Society (2nd ed.) 1980, Toronto: Butterworths, pp. 317-334. (reprinted from Canadian Journal of Criminology 20 (2), 1978, pp. 169-90.

"An Experiment in Diversion by Citizen Committee: The Frontenac Juvenile Diversion Programme" (with M.E. Morton) in R. Corrado, M. Leblanc and J. Trepannier (eds.) Current Issues in Juvenile Justice, 1983, pp. 203-16, Toronto: Butterworths.

"Deviant and Criminal Acts" (with E.J. Bennett) in P. Grayson (ed.) Introduction to Sociology: An Alternate Approach, 1983, pp. 456-82, Toronto: Gage.

"Serious Theft as an Occupation", in T. Fleming and L. Visano (eds.) Deviant Designations: Crime, Law and Deviance in Canada, Toronto: Butterworths, 1983, pp. 257-76.

"Phenomenon and Form in Interactionist and Neo-Marxist Qualitative Educational Research", in L. Barton and S. Walker, (eds.) Social Crisis and Educational Research, London: Croom Helm, 1984, pp. 256-87.

"A Critical Perspective on Law in the Canadian State: Delinquency and Corporate Crime" (with D.L. Snider), reprinted in T. Fleming (ed.) The New Criminologies in Canada, Toronto: Oxford, 1985, pp. 138-169. From, R.J. Ossenberg (ed.) Power and Change in Canada, 1980, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, pp. 199-245.

"Trust Among Serious Thieves" in R. Silverman and J.J. Teevan (eds.) Crime in Canadian Society (3rd ed.), Toronto: Butterworths, 1986. pp. 253-265. (Reprinted from Crime et/and Justice 7/8 (3-4) 1979/80, pp. 239-46.)

"Vigilancia Revolucionaria: A Nicaraguan Resolution to Public and Private Policing" in C.D. Shearing and P.C. Stenning (eds.) Private Policing, Beverley Hills, CA: Sage. 1987 pp. 147-172.

"Algunas Reflexiones Iniciales" [Some Initial Reflections] (with Area Educacion y Trabajo) in Modernizacion: Un Desafio Para la Educacion [Modernization: A Challenge for Education] (comp./ed. M. Cerri, L.-E. Gonzales and W.G. West). Santiago: CIDE/PIIE/UNESCO-OREALC. pp. 7-40. (1988)

"Marginalidad, Inmoralidad, Desviacion, y la Juventud del Tercer Mundo: La Reproduccion del Imperialismo, del Raza, Clase, y Genero a traves de la Edad" [Marginality, Immorality, Deviance, and the Third World Young: The Reproduction of Imperialism, Race, Class and Gender Through Age] in Modernizacion: Un Desafio Para la Educacion [Modernization: A Challenge for Education] (comp./ed. M. Cerri, L.E. Gonzales and W.G. West) Santiago: CIDE/PIIE/UNESCO-OREALC. pp. 259-291. (1988)

"Nicaragua es Una Escuela: Una Alternativa Educativa Revolucionaria y Latinoamericana" [Nicaragua is a School: A Revolutionary Latin American Educational Alternative] in Modernizacion: Un Desafio Para la Educacion [Modernization: A Challenge for Education] (comp./ed. M. Cerri, L.-E. Gonzales and W.G. West) Santiago: CIDE/PIIE/UNESCO-OREALC. pp 691-718. (1988)

"Developing Democratic Education in Central America Means Revolution: The Nicaraguan Case" in J. Kirk and G.Schuyler (eds.) Central America In Crisis: Democracy, Development and Change New York: Praeger. (1988). pp. 109-120.

"The Second Economy in Nicaragua is the Second Front: Washington's Efforts to Destabilize Any Succeeding American Revolution" in M. Los (ed.) The Second Economy in Marxist States, London: Macmillan. (1990) pp 122-139.

"Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice in Canada," in Jane Gladstone, Richard Ericson and Clifford Shearing, eds., Reader's Guide to Criminology. Toronto: Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. 1991. Pp. 258-272.

"Towards a More Socially Informed Understanding of Canadian Delinquency Legislation" in A. Leschied, et al., (eds) The Young Offenders Act Revolution: Changing the Face of Canadian Juvenile Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1991. pp. 3-16.

"Una Practica Critica: Las Implicaciones del Proceso Nicaraguense para la Criminologia Latinoamericana" [A Critical Practice: The Implications of the Nicaraguan Process for Latin American Criminology"], in C. Birkbeck and J.F. Martinez-Rincones (eds.) La Criminologia en America Latina: Balance y Perspectivas, Merida, Venezuela: Edit. CENIPEC, Universidad de los Andes. (1992). pp. 327-354.

"Boys, Recreation, and Violence: The Informal Education of Some Young Canadian Males", in T. Haddad (ed) Men and Masculinities: A Critical Anthology Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 1993. Pp. 277-310.

"Reconstructing Canadian Moral Panic: Youth and School Violence", in T. O'Reilly-Fleming, (ed.), Post-Critical Criminology. Toronto: Prentice-Hall. 1996. pp. 184-200.

"Youth Sports and Violence: A Masculine Subculture?" for Gary M. O'Bireck (ed.) Not a Kid Anymore: Canadian Youth, Crime, and Subcultures. Toronto: Nelson, 1996. pp. 309-348.

"The Short Term Careers of Serious Thieves", in D. Greenberg (ed). Criminal Careers. Aldershot, Hamps., UK: Dartmouth. 1996. (reprinted from Canadian Journal of Criminology 20 (2), 1978, pp. 169-90.)

"Introduction to the Case for Penal Abolition" (with Ruth Morris), in The Case for Penal Abolition, (edited, W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris), Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2000

"Conceptualizing a Comparative Critical Criminology of Penal Abolition", in The Case for Penal Abolition, (edited, W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris), Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2000

"Jubilee in 2000?" (with Ruth Morris), in The Case for Penal Abolition, (edited, W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris), Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 2000

"The Short Term Careers of Serious Thieves", in S. Farrell, (ed)., The Termination of Criminal Careers. Aldershot, Hamps., UK: Dartmouth. 2000. (reprinted from Canadian Journal of Criminology 20 (2), 1978, pp. 169-90.)

c) Papers in Refereed Journals:

"Adolescent Deviance and the School", Interchange 6(2), 1975: 49-55.

"Participant Observation Research on the Social Construction of Everyday Classroom Order", Interchange 6(4), 1975: 35-43.

"Children's Rights in the Canadian Context" (with H. Berkeley and C. Gaffield), Interchange, 8(1-2), 1977: 1-4.

"Participant Observation in Canadian Classrooms: The Need, Rationale, Technique and Development Implications", Canadian Journal of Education 2(3), 1977: 55-74.

"The Short-term Careers of Serious Thieves", Canadian Journal of Criminology 20(2), 1978: 169-90.

"Educational Reforms and Delinquency", Crime et/and Justice 6(1), 1978: 41-52.

"Trust Among Serious Thieves", Crime et/and Justice 7/8(3-4), 1979-80: 239-48.

"Education, Moral Reproduction and the State", Interchange 12(2-3), 1981: 86-101.

"Rates, Types and Patterns of Male and Female Delinquency in an Ontario County" (with M.E. Morton and I.M.Gomme), Canadian Journal of Criminology, July 1984, 26(3): 213-24.

"El Terror Internacional en Nicaragua" [International Terror in Nicaragua] Capitulo Criminologico, 1986, 14, pp 187-200, Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.

"El Terror Internacional en Nicaragua" [International Terror in Nicaragua] reprinted in Poder y Control [Power and Control], 1987, 1: 195-204. edit: PPU/Promociones Publicaciones Universitarias, Barcelona, Espana

"Destabilizing Nicaragua: The Growth of Second Economy Crime Is Not an Internal Flaw of Sandinista Social Justice", Social Justice 1988 (fall-winter), 15 (no 3-4): 114-134.

"Towards a Global Critical Justice Problematic," invited paper for introductory issue of The Journal of Human Justice Vol 1, No. 1. 1989: 99-112.

"The Sandinista Record on Human Rights in Nicaragua", Droit et Societe [Law and Society], CNRS, Paris. no 22, 1992. pp 393-408.

d) Non-refereed Published Papers:

"Critical Issues in Society and Justice" (with M.E. Morton and D.L. Snider) Crime et/and Justice 6(1), 1978: 67-68.

"Estrategias de Investigacion y Participacion Popular: Fundamentando la Investigacion Participativa en Observacion Participante y Etnografia Critica" ["Strategies of Investigation and Popular Participation: Grounding Participatory Research in Participant Observation and Critical Ethnography"](with H. Walker Larrain) Cuadernos de Formacion #2, Dic. 1984, pp. 15-36.

"The Implicit Theory", Barricada Internacional, Oct 1986: no. 27: 6. excerpted from "El Control Social Progresista". Managua, Nicaragua.

"Introduction", in "Violence in The Schools/Schooling in the Violence" Special Issue of Orbit. Guest Ed, W.G. West. OISE Toronto: 1993. p 1.

"Escalating Problem or Moral Panic: A Critical Perspective", in "Violence in The Schools/Schooling in the Violence", Special Issue of Orbit. Guest Ed., W.G. West. OISE Toronto: 1993. pp 6-8.

"The Rittenhouse Foundation (for Transformative Justice): An Alternative Justice Organization" The Bath Tymes. Jan.1995.

"Themes, Issues and Methods in Ethnodigitography: Visual Social Research in a Digital World", Ethnodigitography/ICE: Web Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically. #1, April 1999.
Http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest

"Deconstructing Delphic Drivel: Ontologically and Epistemologically Unravelling Some Political Knots Regarding "Interpassivity" and "Notworking", Ethnodigitography/ICE: Web Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically. #1, April 1999.
Http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest

"Photodocumentary and Visual Ethnography in a Postmodern Digital World: From Positivist Empiricist Pomposity towards a Critique of Photo-electric Representation" Ryerson Polytechnic University, 1996. Ethnodigitography/ICE: Web Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically. #1, April 1999.
Http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest

"Some Expositionary Comments on Relationships between (Socio-economic) Modernity and (Aesthetic) Modernism," ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Issue #2 2000.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Methodological Issues in Developing Themes" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

dx)Ethnodigitographical/On-line Visual Essays:

"Nick Nixon and Continuing Documentary Photography" (TEMPLATE 1: Mostly Text, with accompanying inserted illustrative images), for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Angela and Li'l Hawk: A Canadian Native Single Mom in the Big City" (TEMPLATE 2: Text and Images approximately equal, integrated on each page), for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Nicaragua" (TEMPLATE 3: A separate Text essay, with a separate Series/Essay of Images, with or without titles), for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Inner City Neighbours" (TEMPLATE 4: Text and Image on the same page, with short "provocative text") for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Samoa: Revisiting the Anthropological Wonderland of Margaret Mead" (TEMPLATE 5: Alternating Text and Image, on alternating pages) for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"The Yorkville Quarter", (TEMPLATE 6: Text fully integrated into Images) for Introductory issue of ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Cultures Electronically; # 1 Apr 1999.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Some Recent 'Meeting Place' ("Trawna") Artifacts: a paper to the Annual Electronic Campfire of the Cosmic EthnoDigitography Society" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

e) Papers in Published Conference Proceedings:

"Descriptive-Interpretive Research: Unstructured Participant Observation Techniques in Educational Research", in D. Ryan and T.B. Greenfield (eds.) Clarifying the Class Size Question, Toronto: Ministry of Education, 1976, pp. 53-72.

"Evaluating a Diversion Programme" (with M.E. Morton) in Diversion: A Canadian Concept and Practice, Solicitor-General: Ottawa, 1977, pp. 38.

"The Myth of Community in the Ideology Surrounding Diversion" (with M. E. Morton) in Diversion: A Canadian Concept and Practice, Solicitor-General: Ottawa, 1977, pp. 17.

"Adolescent Deviance and the School Reforms", Social Order: Proceedings of 3rd Canadian Conference of Applied Criminology, J. Laplante (ed.) University of Ottawa, 1978, pp. 152-72.

"Some Suggestions re: Micro and Macro Variability in Diversion", (with M.E. Morton), in Comte Rendu de l'Atelier de Recherches sur les Processus de Criminalisation et de non-Criminalisation, J. Laplante (ed.), University of Ottawa, 1979, pp. 102-08.

"Juveniles in Justice" in Class Struggle, Working Class Strategies and the Transition to Socialism, (Proceedings 1979 Leeds Conference), pp. 15. Committee of Socialist Economists. Leeds, 1979.

"Juveniles in Justice" also in Social Control in a State of Crisis. (Proceedings of 4th Canadian Conference of Applied Criminology), L. Laplante (ed.) University of Ottawa, 1980, pp. 144-59.

"Summary of a Research Evaluation of the Frontenac Juvenile Diversion Programme" (with M.E. Morton), in Seminaire Avance sur la Justice des Mineurs, J. Trepannier (ed.), University of Montreal, 1980, pp. 23.

"What is Diversion" and "The Frontenac Diversion Programme", (with M.E. Morton) in Metro Toronto Children's Advisory Group, eds, A Problem in Search of a Policy: Children under Twelve in Conflict with the Law. Toronto: Metro Children's Advisory Group. 1986 pp 74-78. from "Kids Not Cons" Conference, Nov 1985, Metro Toronto Children's Advisory Group.

"La Retorica del Sr.Reagan: la Decadencia del Imperio, el Terrorismo Norteamericano, y la Presentacion Ideologico de la Tortura en Nicargua" [Reagan's Rhetoric: Imperial Decline, American Terrorism, and the Ideological Presentation of Torture in Nicaragua] in Memorias: IV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Criminologa Critica/II Seminario Sobre Control Social En America Latina La Habana, Cuba, Septiembre de 1986. Ministerio de Justicia, La Habana, Cuba. Junio de 1987. pp. 91-97.

"Courts, Congresses and (Media) Cajoleries: Reagan's Rhetoric and American State Terrorism in Nicaragua" Proceedings of the 1987 Conference of the Canadian Law and Society Association. York University/YULL Publications Microfiche. (1987) pp 34.

"Juvenile Justice in Nicaragua: Do Traditional Concepts Make Sense?", in J. Hackler (ed.), Official Responses to Problem Juveniles: Some International Reflections Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on Juvenile Justice. Onati, Spain: Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. (1991) pp 311-338..

A Research Evaluation of the Frontenac Juvenile Diversion Project [with M.E. Morton, (et.al.) Ottawa: Solicitor-General, 1980, pp. 376.

"Sociology of Education in Canada", in J.P. Grayson and D.W. Magill (eds.) One Step Forward, Two Steps Sidewards: Update of Symons, Montreal: CSAA, 1981, p. 4.

"The Education and Work Subproject" (in Co-operative Project, CIDE-OISE-PIIE), Cooperative Project, Final Report, IDRC, Ottawa, 1988.

"Estrategias de Investigacion y Participacion Popular: Fundamentando la Investigacion Participativa en Observacion Participante y Etnografia Critica" ["Strategies of Investigation and Popular Participation: Grounding Participatory Research in Participant Observation and Critical Ethnography"](with H. Walker Larrain). (in Co-operative Project, CIDE-OISE-PIIE), Cooperative Project,Final Report, IDRC, Ottawa, 1988. section on Popular Education (edited E.V. Sullivan et al.) reprinted from Cuadernos de Formacion #2, Dic. 1984, pp. 15-36.

"Comments on S. Magendzo, Transferencia y Apropriacion en Proyectos de Education Popular/ Idenditidad del Educador Popular: Seis Relatos de Vida Santiago: PIIE. 1987"[Transference and Appropriation in Popular Education Projects: Identity of the Popular Educator: 6 Life Histories.] (in Co-operative Project, CIDE-OISE-PIIE), Cooperative Project, Final Report, IDRC, Ottawa, 1988.

g) Unpublished Papers Presented at Conferences:

"Adolescent Perspectives: On Being a Greaser, Freak, or Straight", Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association annual meeting, Edmonton, May 1975.

"Theoretical Origins and Structure of the Frontenac Diversion Programme" (with B. Ward, D. Card, and M. Morton). Workshop on Issues in Society and Justice, Queen's University, March 1978.

"Towards a Critical Political Economy of Canadian Crime" (with M.E. Morton and L. Snider). Workshop on Issues in Society and Justice, Queen's University, March 1978.

"Diversion: Non-Intervention, Community Corrections, and Juvenile Justice?" (with B. Ward, D. Card, and M.E. Morton). Annual meetings of CSAA, London, June 1978.

"A Critical Political Economy of Canadian Crime and Delinquency" (with M.E. Morton and L. Snider). Annual meetings of CSAA, London, May 1978.

"Some Implications of Canadian Educational Politics for Recent European Theories of the State", Research Committee in Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association, Conference on the Origins and Operations of Educational Systems, Paris, France, Aug. 7-8, 1980.

"Implications of European State Theory for Canadian Criminology" (with L. Snider), CSAA, Halifax, 1981.

"Educating Legal Subjectivity", Critical Pedagogy Workshop, Feb. 1982; International Sociological Association meetings, Mexico City, August 1982.

"Nicaragua as a Test-Case for Critical Criminological Theory" to Research Committee on Deviance and Social Control, International Sociological Association, San Jose, Costa Rica, December 1984.

"Justicia Popular, Con Enfasis en los Comites de Defensa Sandinista" ("Popular Justice, with Emphasis on the Sandinista Defense Committees"), VII Reunion de la Associacion de Criminologia Comparada, Managua, Nicaragua, sept. 1985. 12 pp.

"Northamerican State Terrorism, Reagan's Rhetoric and Imperial Decline: The Distortion of Language and the Torturing of Nicaragua" for International Sociological Association Meetings, New Dehli, India, August 1986.

"Control Social Progresista: Que Los Errores del Norte No Se Reconstruyan en el Sur Revolucionario" [Progressive Social Control: May the Errors of the North Not Be Reconstructed in the Revolutionary South],I Seminario Sobre Los Sistemas Penitenciarios de la America, Managua, Nicaragua, Sept 16-19,1986. Ministerio de Justicia, Nicaragua.

"`Nicaragua is a School': a Progressive Alternative to the Marginalization of Latin American Youth in the Crisis: The Reproduction of Race, Gender, Class, and Imperialism Through Age, with Some Implications for Education, Work, and Political Community," for La Actual Coyuntura del Proceso de Modernizacion: Efectos sobre el Empleo, Implicancias para la Educacion [The Present Conjuncture of the Modernization Process: Effects on Employment, Implications for Education] CIDE-PIIE-OISE Co-operative Project Conference on Work and Education, Santiago, Chile, November, 1986.

"Education and Crime, South and North: Does Serious Educational Development Prevent Crime? Or Does Its Resistance to Socially Institutionalized Underdevelopment Invite International State Terrorism?", the Canadian Social Development Council and the Canadian Criminal Justice Association on "Crime Prevention Through Social Development", Ottawa, Feb., 1987.

"Popular Participation and Social Control: The Nicaraguan Exemplar" for session at the CSAA, Windsor, June 1988.

"Human Rights in Nicaragua: The Sandinista Record 1979-1990." to The International Sociological Association and Law and Society Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 1991.

"Aspects of Political and Legal Sociology in Nicaragua" to Post Congress, The International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Espana, July 1991.

"Some Preliminary Questions on Violence, (Young) Males, (Informal and Formal) Education." National Men's Conference, Ottawa, Oct 1991.

"Abolitionism in Canadian Juvenile Justice" for 6th International Conference on Penal Abolition, San Jose, Costa Rica, June 2-5, 1993.

"Structural Restrictions of Imprisonment on Transformative Justice" (with 5 others), 7th International Conference on Penal Abolition, Barcelona, Spain, May, 1995.

"Correction as Conversion: The Subversion of Treatment Programmes for Offenders", Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association (US), Toronto, June 1995.

"Globalization of Criminological Knowledge? Or Hegemonization of Yankee Criminological Failures?", Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Nov., 1999.

"Ideological Circularity in 'Progressive' Penological Practices", Ninth International Conference on Penal Abolition, Toronto, May 10-13, 2000.

h) Other Publications:

Interviews

(with M. McMahon, S. Farson, trans by M. Valverde and W.G. West) "Justice in Nicaragua: An Interview with Dra. Vilma Nunez de Escorcia" Canadian Criminology Forum, Vol 8, no. 1, pp 53-63. 1986

(with D. Lacombe )"Interview with Dr Elias Carranza", Canadian Criminology Forum, Vol 10, no. 1, pp. 40-47. 1989

(with M. McMahon) "Interview with Dra Rosa Del Olmo, Instituto de Criminologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas." pp 22 The Journal of Human Justice, Vol 4, # 1, 1992: pp 97-116.

"A Dialogue on the Nature and Extent of the Problem" (Interview with Stuart Auty, Stephen Duggan, Margaret Dempsey, Grant Lowery, and Dan Wiseman) in "Violence in The Schools/Schooling in the Violence", Special Issue of Orbit. Guest Ed., W.G. West. OISE Toronto: 1993. pp 2-5.

"Some Kids' Perspectives: An Interview with Three Toronto Kids" (pseudonyms: Tom, Ron, and Ruth), in "Violence in The Schools/Schooling in the Violence", Special Issue of Orbit. Guest Ed., W.G. West. OISE Toronto: 1993. pp 2-5.

"Interview with Mr. Sam Brazeau, Warden", The Bath Tymes, Bath Institution, Correctional Services Canada, Bath, Ont., Sept., 1994.

"Interview with Rev. Al Tilford, Chaplain", The Bath Tymes, Bath Institution, Correctional Services Canada, Bath, Ont., Jan., 1995.

Book Reviews

Novak, M. Living and Learning in the Free School, for Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 13(2), 1976, pp. 257-58.

Carter, R., D. Glaser and L.T. Wilkins (eds.) Correctional Institutions, 2nd ed., for Canadian Journal of Criminology, April 1979 21(2), 233-35.

Millham, S., R. Bullock and K. Hosie. Locking Up Children, for Canadian Journal of Criminology, 22(3), July 1980, pp. 367-69.

Broadfoot, P. Assessments, Schools, and Society, for Interchange 11(2), 1980-1:77-79.

Leyton, E. The Myth of Delinquency, for Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 18(1), 1981, pp. 111-13.

McLaren, P. Cries From the Corridor, for Canadian Journal of Education, 1981, 6(1), pp. 81-83.

Willis, P. Learning to Labour; Paul Corrigan, Schooling the Smash Street Kids; P. McLaren, Cries From the Corridor, for Canadian Journal of Criminology, 24(4), 1982: 469-76.

Review Symposium on G. Whitty and B. Davies, The Politics of Cultural Production; M. Arnot, Class, Gender and Education; J. Shaw and J. Fitz, Education, Welfare and Social Order; J. Ozga, R. Deem and R. Fergusson, The Politics of Schools and Teaching for British Journal of Sociology of Education 3(3): 1982.

M. Leblanc and M. Frechette, Delinquances et Delinquants Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada: Gaetan Morin, edit. 1987. for Canadian Journal of Criminology, 1988.

A. Allahar, Sociology and the Periphery: Theories and Issues Toronto: Garamond. 1989. For Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 1990

J. Stockwell, The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order. Boston: South End. 1991. 205 pp. For The Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue canadienne droit et Societe. Vol 9, no. 2, 1994. pp. 268-9.

J. Hudson, J.P. Hornick, and B.A. Burrows, (eds) Justice and the Young Offender in Canada. Toronto: Wall and Thompson. 1988. 190 pp. For The Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue canadienne droit et Societe. Vol. 9, no. 2, 1994. pp 267-268.

P. Rains, Normal Bad Boys. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press. 1992. For Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology. Vol. 31, 2, May 1994. pp. 229-30.

D. Currie and B.D. MacLean (eds.) Re-Thinking the Administration of Justice in Canada. Toronto: Prentice-Hall. 1992. For Canadian Journal of Sociology. Vol 19, #3, 1994. pp 393-4.

On-line Art Reviews

"Interaccess" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Bruce LaBruce" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Picasso's 'Head of a Woman' and Warhol's 'Silver Liz'" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Pleasure Dome" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Popping Some Andys Into the 'PLANT's Web: Towards a More POWERful On-Line Representation of Popular Culture at The POWERPLANT" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Power Plant" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"Vision TV: Skylight" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

"YYZ Artists' Outlet" ETHNODIGITOGRAPHY/ICE: A Web-Journal of Imaging Culture Electronically. #2 Apr2000. http://webhome.idirect.com/~gordwest/

Comments

"Response to Russell", Interchange 13(2), 1982:76.

Interviews

"Un Estudio de Caso en La Criminologia Comparada y la Justicia Internacional: Nicaragua" [A Case Study in Comparative Criminology and International Justice: Nicaragua], Radio Habana, Cuba, 10 de julio de 1987.

"The Influence of American Destabilization on Justice in Nicaragua", 9 of July, 1987. Radio Habana International, Cuba.

"Youth Subculture" Ryerson Polytechnic course on Deviance. 1984.

"Juvenile Delinquency" Ryerson Polytechnic course on Deviance. 1984

"I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends" (anonymously, in group), by George Martell, This Magazine Is About Schools, 2 (4), 1968: 34-49.

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Papers:

"Violence in Youth Sport Cultures"

"Khaki-Collared Crime: Los Contra and the Internationalization of Imperialist State Death Squads in Nicaragua".

"Un Estudio de Caso en la Criminologia Comparada y la Justicia Internacional: El Conocimiento de la Economia Subterranea Nicaraguense Exige el Conocimiento de los Esfuerzos de Washington para Desestabilizar Cualquiera Revolucion Existosa en America" [A Case Study in Compararative Criminology and International Justice: Understanding the Nicaraguan Underground Economy Requires Recognizing Washington's Efforts to Destabilize Any Succeeding American Revolution]. for Memorias [Proceedings] "The Prevention of Crime: Different Societal Models" from the Conference sponsored by the International Criminological Association and the Ministry of Justice, Cuba; La Habana, Cuba. Submitted also on invitation for reprinting to La Revista Cubana de Derecho and La Revista de Divulgacion.

"Los Contra: La Perfectida Esquadrone de Muerte Internacionalista" [The Contra: the Perfected International Death Squad] for El Grupo de Criminologia Critica. Mexico, submitted to Memorias

"The C.A.S.: Children's Aid Society or The Child Abusing Society? Moral Panics and the New Moralists"

"Initial Socialization Experiences in Canadian Corrections" for ICOPA ten, Abuja, Nigeria, 2002

"Structural Problems for Treatment Programmes in Canadian Corrections"

"Conversion: in Religion, Corrections, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Treatment" for ICOPA Ten, Abuja, Nigeria, 2002.

"Formal and Non-formal Education in Canadian Prisons", for Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

"Deconstructing Delphic Drivel: Ontologically and Epistemologically Unravelling Some Political Knots Regarding "Interpassivity" and "Notworking", for journal submission.

Books:

Criminal In Justice: Moral Panics, Legal Politics, Offender Treatments, and the Re-Victimization of Victims

Just Revolution: Popular Insurrection, Sandinista Justice, and American State Terrorism in Nicaragua. London: Routledge. c. 250 pp.

Book Review:

Convict Criminology, ed by S. C. Richards and J. I. Ross, Wadsworth, 2001