Jarrod Shook completed an honour’s degree in sociology at Laurentian University and is currently completing an honour’s degree in criminology at the University of Ottawa. Jarrod is a member of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons editorial team where he was lead editor of Volume 26, Number 1&2 – a “Dialogue Canada’s Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Penal Reform”. As a member of the Carceral Cultures Research Initiative (www.carceralcultures.ca), he recently co-authored an article with Justin Piché and Kevin Walby entitled “Getting ‘Beyond the Fence’: Interrogating the Backstage Production, Marketing and Evaluation of CSC’s Virtual Tour”, which appeared in Volume 7 of the Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research.
