Biography

A native of Saint John, N.B., Dr. Goggin earned undergraduate degrees from St. Thomas University and the University of New Brunswick in Saint John before completing post-graduate degrees in psychology at UNB. Her doctoral dissertation examined the effects of perceived prison environment on inmate behaviour. Specifically, it used the results of two independent surveys of 4,283 inmates and 2,717 staff who, respectively, lived and worked within Canada’s federal prisons during 1995/1996.

Current research projects include a meta-analysis of the concurrent and predictive effects of prison on institutional misconducts and post-release recidivism; effective correctional programming with inmates; the socialization process among Maritime police cadets; and the use of scientific inscriptions in the social sciences, particularly criminology and criminal justice, gerontology, and psychology.