Dr. Dany Lacombe, Professor of Sociology, received her BA from Universit茅 de Sherbrooke and her MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her current and past research focuses on the transformation of particular events into social problems and moral panic. She is currently working on two projects that examine how prison and therapeutic ideologies hail their patients and, in the process, transform subjectivities. The first one, Sex Offender School, is an ethnography of a treatment program for incarcerated sex offenders. It explores the techniques of introspection, self-management and the changes of habits and thoughts a rehabilitated sex offender must deploy at the turn of the 21^st century.

The second project, Mac鈥檚 Rehab, is a collaboration with an ex-con, a lifer struggling to remain clean on the outs. The project, which explores Mac鈥檚 journey from prison to the criminal world and from addiction to lecturing at 丁香园AV, investigates the impact of prison institutionalization and ideologies of addiction and mental illness on the process of rehabilitation.  It also examines the role Mac's keepers and the helping profession, the students and Lacombe, and Mac himself played in solidifying the stream-lined, classic story of the redeemed ex-con.

PhD, University of Toronto
MA, University of Toronto
BA, Universit茅 de Sherbrooke

Books

• Law as a Gendering Practice
  Edited with Dorothy Chunn, 2000.
• Blue Politics: Pornography and the Law in the Age of Feminism (1994)
• Ideology and Public Policy: the Case Against Pornography (1988)