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TSAS WP18-02 ‘How “Alone” are Lone-Actors? Exploring the Ideological, Signaling, and Support Networks of Lone-Actor Terrorists’
The threat of lone-actor terrorism poses a unique challenge to security practitioners tasked with detecting, identifying, and preventing acts of ideologically and politically-motivated violence. Conventional knowledge and early academic work – …
TSAS WP17-04: ‘Reporting Suspicion in Canada Insights from the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing’
Following the premise that suspicion is less an event than a process, how do banks produce suspicion about financial transactions for reporting purposes? To what extent the quality of suspicious – …
TSAS WP17-03: The Experience of Canadian Muslim Civil-society Organization and Activists in Influencing and Shaping Counter-terrorism Legislation and Policy
The main objective of this research is to understand the experiences of Canadian Muslim civil-society organisations that seek to influence counter-terrorism legislation and policy. I use the public debate surrounding – …
TSAS WP17-02: Broadening our Understanding of Anti-Authority Movements in Canada
TSAS WP17-01: A Concurrent Evaluation of Threat Assessment Tools for the Individual Assessment of Terrorism
This research examines what is the content overlap among three tools that may be relevant for assessing an individual’s risk for terrorist violence: Version 3 of the Historical-Clinical-Risk Management—20 (HCR-20 – …
TSAS WP16-13: Trying to Talk to Terrorists: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Canada
Scholars have long shied away from talking to terrorists. This is because there are significant methodological and ethical problems posed by such research. How can we manage those challenges and – …
The Right Response: Right Wing Extremism in Canada
Seeing the Same Canada? Visible Minorities’ Views of the Federation
Les minorities visibles et la fédération canadienne
Women as Professional Soldiers: Canadian Values on the Front Line
Cowardly Traitor or Heroic Whistleblower? The Impact of Edward Snowden’s Disclosures on Canada and the United Kingdom’s Security Establishments
Plea Bargaining and the Trial Penalty in Canada
Earning Their Support: Feelings toward the Host Political Community among Recent Immigrants in Canada
Police Work in International Peace Operations Environments: A Perspective From Canadian Police Officers in the MINUSTAH
Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right-Wing Extremist Movement in Canada
Radicalization in British Columbia secondary schools: The principals’ perspective.
Know where, when and the ways to vote. But have opinions as well!
Voter Turnout among Younger Canadians and Visible Minority Canadians Evidence from the Provincial Diversity Project
From Protection to Resilience: Critical Infrastructure Security in Canada
Minority enclaves in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver
Defence Policy, ‘Walmart Style’: Canadian lessons in ‘not-so-grand’ strategy
From Seeds to Orchards: Using Evidence-Based Policing to Address Canada’s Policing Research Needs.
Stumbling Toward Total Information Awareness: The Security of Canada Information Sharing Act
Neutrality Law, Anti-terrorism and Foreign Fighters: Legal Solutions to the Recruitment of Canadians to Foreign Insurgencies
‘Just Being Mean to Somebody Isn’t a Police Matter’: Police Perspectives on Policing Cyber-bullying
Abstract: Increasing public awareness of cyberbullying, coupled with several highly publicized youth suicides linked to electronic bullying, have led lawmakers and politicians to consider new criminal legislation specifically related to – …
Les violences motivées par la haine. Idéologies et modes d’action des extrémistes de droite au Canada
Abstract: Bien que les violences politiques soient, depuis le début du siècle, principalement abordées sous l’angle de l’extrémisme islamiste, les crimes motivés par la haine existaient au Canada bien avant – …
Iterations of Olympic security: Montreal and Vancouver
Abstract: This article compares security dynamics at two Olympic Games hosted by Canada: Montreal (1976) and Vancouver (2010). It is the first study of security at the Montreal Olympics and – …
Migrating Gender Inequalities? Immigrant Women’s Participation in Political Survey Research
Abstract: This study examines the participation of immigrant women in political surveys in Canada as a form of political participation. Investigating immigrant women’s participation in the various components of the – …
Trust among Recent Immigrants in Canada: Levels, Origins, and Implications for Integration
Abstract: Generalised trust promotes social interactions and may well be a crucial component of immigrant integration. Recent immigrants in particular are likely to be viewed by themselves and others as – …
Usage du français et préférences politiques des néo-Québécois
Résumé Cette étude examine l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre l’usage de la langue française chez les néo-Québécois et leurs relations aux communautés politiques québécoise et canadienne. L’étude examine séparément – …
Tendances violentes de la droite radicale au Canada: analyses chronologiques et facteurs d’influence
The lack of right-wing political parties at the national scale is, among other things, a reason why only a few studies have looked at the factors shaping farright violent incidents – …
A group-based recidivist sentencing premium? The role of context and cohort effects in the sentencing of terrorist offenders
Despite recent interest in terrorism little is known about the sentencing of terrorist offenders, and the impact of cohort effects on the sentencing patterns of offenders over the course of – …
Current National Security and Human Rights Issues in the UK, Canada and Hong Kong
Radicalism Leading to Violent Extremism in Canada: A Multi-Level Analysis of Muslim Community and University Based Student Leaders’ Perceptions and Experiences.
Recently, more than 150 Canadians have joined the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, causing alarm among both Canadian policy makers and the general citizenry. One of the most – …
(Dés)organisation et dynamiques identitaires du mouvement skinhead au Québec : une étude exploratoire
Legislating in Fearful and Politicized Times: The Limits of Bill C-51’s Disruption Powers in Making us Safer
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In – …
Go With The Flow: The (Im)Plausibility of a Grand Canadian Intergovernmental Bargain on Energy Policy and Strategy
The Promise and Perils of Integrated Models of Public Safety in Canada
Forgotten Surveillance: Covert Human Intelligence Sources in Canada in a Post 9/11 World
Surveillance does not affect everyone equally. Since Edward Snowden made his initial flight to Hong Kong with a treasure trove of documents digitally stuffed in his computer, stories about the – …
Law, Logarithms and Liberties: Legal Issues Arising from CSE’s Metadata Program
Canada’s National Counterterrorism Strategy and Challenges of Community Based Intervention in Countering Radicalization: A Perspective.
Neighbourhood Effects on Fear of Crime in Canada
Fear of crime is a social problem with potentially serious consequences, including altering or restricting one’s behaviour. Changes to one’s routine for this purpose are known as constrained behaviours. Although – …
Human Rights in Canada: A History. Studies in Political Philosophy Series.
This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that – …
TSAS WP16-12: The Future of Right-Wing Terrorism in Canada
What is the range of likely scenarios for future right-wing terrorism in Canada, based on connections to radical movements in the US and Europe? Which factors or actions may mitigate – …
TSAS WP16-09: Social impacts of the securitized arrival experiences of in-Canada refugee claimants
This multi-sited research included qualitative interviews with 19 in-Canada refugee claimants declared convention refugees under the new (since Dec 1, 2012) immigration legislation. The research sought to answer two questions: – …
TSAS WP16-04: Bridging the National Security Accountability Gap: A Three-Part System to Modernize Canada’s Inadequate Review of National Security
This paper examines existing challenges associated with the current structure of national security accountability review in Canada. It then draws on best practices in other jurisdictions to propose a systematic – …
Who’s a Terrorist? What’s Terrorism? Comparative Media Representations of Right Wing and Islamic Extremist Violence in Canada
Study 1 of 3: A Qualitative Examination of Radicalization and Susceptibility to Radicalization
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) staff members recognize the complex, multi-faceted nature of radicalization, and are familiar with a wide range of behaviours indicative of radicalization or susceptibility to radicalization. Responses – …
Study 2 of 3: Comparisons of Radicalized and Non-Radicalized Federal Offenders
The identification of considerable differences between radicalized and non-radicalized offenders across a variety of areas suggests that the case management, supervision, and intervention strategies used for each group may need – …