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Berardi Luca, Assistant Professor

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Luca Berardi

Assistant Professor

Faculty
Social Psychology Program

Faculty
Department of Sociology

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

Dr. Berardi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University. A criminologist by training, his research focuses on the relationship between poverty, violence, and victimization in social housing developments and criminal justice institutions, including prisons and police organizations. His current projects include:

1) a 5-year ethnographic study on the impact of gun violence on residents of a Toronto social housing development (SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship);

2) research on the victim-offender overlap among federally incarcerated people in Canada (SSHRC IDG);

3) research on fentanyl-related occupational health and safety risks for police officers in Western Canada (Alberta OHS Futures – Research Funding Program);

4) a study of carceral relations between prisoners and their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic (McMaster Covid-19 Catalyst Grant), and;

5) longitudinal research on barriers to prisoner re-entry and re-integration (SSHRC Partnership Grant).

Education

  • PhD, Sociology. University of Alberta.
  • MA, Criminology. University of Toronto.
  • BA, Criminology. University of Toronto.

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses:
  • SOCPSY 2D03 - Making & Breaking Rules
  • SOCPSY 3C03 - Regimes of Social Control
  • SOCIOL/SOCPSY 3RR3 - Imprisonment
Graduate Courses:
  • SOCIOL 742 - Qualitative Methods

Research

Journal Articles:

McDonald, Alysha, Berardi, Luca, Tetrault, Justin, Haggerty, Kevin, & Bucerius, Sandra (2022). “More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men.” British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac026

Berardi, Luca. (2021) “Neighborhood Wisdom: An Ethnographic Study of Localized Street Knowledge.” Qualitative Sociology, 44(1): 103-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-020-09454-z

Berardi, Luca, Bucerius, Sandra, Haggerty, Kevin, & Krahn, Harvey. (2021) “Narcan and Narcan’t: Implementation Factors Influencing Police Officer Use of Narcan.” Social Science & Medicine, 270: 113669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113669 

Bucerius, Sandra, Berardi, Luca, Haggerty, Kevin, & Krahn, Harvey. (2021, online first). “New Drugs, New Fears: Synthetic Opioids and Adaptations to Police Practice.” Policing & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.2020783

Berardi, Luca & Bucerius, Sandra (2020). “Organizational Turning Points: The Transformation of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation in New York City.” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 45(2): 143-168.https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs29643

Bucerius, Sandra, Thompson, Sara, & Berardi, Luca. (2017). “‘They’re Colonizing My Neighbourhood’: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada.” City & Community, 16(4): 486-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12263

Books:

Bucerius, Sandra, Haggerty, Kevin, & Berardi, Luca, eds. (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. London: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.001.0001

Book Chapters:

Berardi, Luca. (2022). “The History of (Crime) Ethnography.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Eds. Sandra Bucerius, Kevin Haggerty, & Luca Berardi. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.1

Bucerius, Sandra, Haggerty, Kevin, & Berardi, Luca. (2022). “Introduction: The Promises and Challenges of Crime Ethnographies.” In The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice. Eds. Sandra Bucerius, Kevin Haggerty, & Luca Berardi. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 18-39. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904500.013.30

Bucerius, Sandra, Berardi, Luca, & Haggerty, Kevin. (2022) “‘I’m in a Federal Prison, and I’ve Never Felt More Free’: The Multi-faceted Pains Experienced by Incarcerated Indigenous Women in Canada.” In Power and Pain in the Modern Prison: The Society of Captives Revisited. Eds. Ben Crewe, Mark Halsey, and Andrew Goldsmith. London: Oxford University Press.

Bucerius, Sandra, Ricciardelli, Rose, & Berardi, Luca. “Country Report: Canada.” (2022) In The Impact of COVID-19 on Prison Conditions and Penal Policy. Eds. Frieder Dünkel, Stefan Harrendorf, and Dirk van Zyl Smit. Routledge.

Berardi, Luca & Bucerius, Sandra (2014). “Immigrants and their Children: Evidence on Generational Differences in Crime”. In The Oxford Handbook on Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration. Eds. Sandra Bucerius & Michael Tonry. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 551-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859016.013.011

Other:

Ellis, Adam, & Berardi, Luca. 2020. “Street Organization Transformation Model: The Foundation.” Report prepared for the Youth Development Unit (Toronto Gang Strategy), City of Toronto.

Bucerius, Sandra, Krahn, Harvey, Berardi, Luca, Haggerty, Kevin (2020). “Fentanyl-related Occupational Health Risks for Police Officers.” Report prepared for the Government of Alberta, Occupational Health and Safety.

Bucerius, Sandra, Berardi, Luca, Krahn, Harvey, Haggerty, Kevin (2020). “Fentanyl-related Risks for Police Officers.” Report prepared for the Edmonton Police Services.