Policing and Law Enforcement
Policing and law enforcement
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 – …
The Dallas Patrol Management Experiment: Can AVL Technologies be Used to Harness Unallocated Patrol Time For Crime Prevention?
Police Work in International Peace Operations Environments: A Perspective From Canadian Police Officers in the MINUSTAH
Police Work and New ‘Security Devices’: A Tale from the Beat
Police and Cameras
Developing a Typology of Terrorism Involvement as a Basis to Planning for Sentencing, Management, Risk Reduction, Release and Monitoring of Terrorist Offenders
‘This Isn’t What I Signed Up For’: When Officer Role Expectations Conflict with the Realities of General Duty Work in Rural Communities
Abstract: Although some insight into the sources and scope of occupational stress among rural police officers exists, historically, researchers have focused largely on their policing styles, rather than the relationship – …
From Seeds to Orchards: Using Evidence-Based Policing to Address Canada’s Policing Research Needs.
‘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 – …
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 – …
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 – …
High Visibility Policing: Policing on Camera and the Crisis of Police Legitimacy
The public now expects that police work will be video recorded. This challenges the foundational axiom that police work is a “low-visibility” occupation. Technological and social developments are rapidly making – …
Private Eyes: Private Policing and Surveillance
About the Book: The increasing privatization of security across the globe has been the subject of much debate and controversy, inciting fears of private warfare and even the collapse of – …
The Complex Ecology of Policing, Trust, and Community Partnerships in Counterterrorism
About the Book: The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 raise important questions concerning security, terrorism, and the – …
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 – …
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 WP16-08: Analyzing the formal and informal roles of women in security and justice in Yemen: Reflections for future considerations
This paper is part of a larger project which examines the roles and agency of women in counterterrorism practices. This paper specifically asks: what formal and informal roles have women – …
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 – …
Examining the Needs and Motivations of Canada’s Federally Incarcerated Radicalized Offenders
This study allowed for an enhanced understanding of the motivations and needs of radicalized offenders,Footnote 1 while providing the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) with further evidence that can be – …
Use of Programs and Interventions with Canada’s Federally Sentenced Radicalized Offenders
Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right Wing Extremist Movement in Canada
Despite the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s recent concern with the growing threat from right-wing extremists nationwide, we have little contemporary scholarship on the far right movement in Canada and fewer – …
Securitizing’ Canadian Policing: A New Policing Paradigm for the Post 9/11 Security State?
The Spatial Distribution and Social Context for Homicide in Toronto’s Neighbourhoods, 1988-2003
The Spatial Distribution and Social Ecology of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Homicide Types in Toronto: A Case for Data Disaggregation
Police «globalisée» et déploiements canadiens dans les operations de paix
Las operaciones internacionales por la paz han visto, en las últimas décadas, un marcado aumento del contingente policial, más conocido bajo el nombre de “UNPOL”. Dicha policía “globalizada” tiene por – …
The Constable in British Columbia: Police Training from the Academy to the Street
Keeping promises: Logic models, and the design or a new classification of gang control strategies.
Violent Extremist Risk Assessment: Development of the VERA 2 and Applications in the High Security Correctional Setting
The Importance of Both Opportunity and Social Disorganization Theory in a Future Research Agenda to Advance Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention at Places
Response of Front-line Officers to Suicide by Cop Incidents: Training in Use of Force Options and Crisis Intervention
Police Use of Deadly Force: International Comparisons and Research Issues
Police «globalisée» et déploiements canadiens dans les operations de paix
Les opérations internationales de paix ont vu ces dernières décennies une augmentation marquée de contingents policiers, mieux connus sous le nom d’UNPOL. Cette police « globalisée » a pour mission – …
TSAS WP14-10: Social Perspectives on National Security: A review of recent literature
This review was commissioned by TSAS to survey the ways in which academic researchers have been trying to understand the experiences of exclusion by marginalized youth, and how these might – …
Illicit Drugs and International Security: Towards UNGASS 2016
Rise of Self-Defense Groups Highlights Mexico’s State-Level Security Challenges
The inhabitants of Michoacan, a state on Mexico’s Pacific coastline, must feel a grim sense of deja vu regarding recent developments surrounding organized crime-related violence in the region. Seven years – …
‘All It Takes Is One TV Show to Ruin It’: A Police Perspective on Police-Media Relations in the Era of Expanding Prime Time Crime Markets
In this article, we draw on interviews conducted with Canadian police investigators for a study of mass media representations of police work to better understand their unique perspectives on the – …
Inside Criminal Networks
The Mobility of Stolen Guns in Quebec
Research on crime guns has traditionally focused on the time-to-crime measure. This study shifts the focus to guns that entered the illegal firearm market through thefts. This subset of guns – …
Coercion, Control, and Cooperation in a Prostitution Ring
Coercion and control are key components of the dominant narrative on sex trafficking, but the power and exchange relations between some of the key players in trafficking have not been – …
We Don’t Have These Laser Beams and Stuff Like That’: Police Investigations as Low-Tech Work in a High-Tech World
TSAS WP14-05: The Effectiveness & Effects of Canada’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams
This paper is part of a larger project that studies the emergence of the idea of integration together with its implications. This paper asks: how has the idea of integration – …
The Criminal Ecology of Payment Systems: How ‘Identity Theft’ Evolved from Plastic Counterfeiting to ‘Crime of the Century’
Benoit Dupont offers an alternative analytical framework that relies on the concept of coevolution between “identity theft” as we know it and the development of a new payment system from – …
Invisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security Gap
Radicalization in North America: A Strategic Approach to Prevention
The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement along Canada’s Smart Border
Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a – …