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 WP17-01: 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 – …
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan
The monthly tally of civilian casualties in Afghanistan traces the war’s grim trajectory. Thousands of Afghan bystanders are killed and maimed each year in clashes between insurgents and the coalition – …
Criminological Perspectives on International Criminal Law
This volume is one of the few books to explain in-depth the international crimes behind the scenes of substantive or procedural law. The contributors place a particular focus on what – …
Controlling terrorist suspects’ civil liberties while confronting terrorism: the case of Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures
The relevance and application of empirical research methods to the study of international crimes
Introduction The international criminalization of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes has been followed by a vast amount of published work on the legal instruments and institutions dealing with – …
Defending Freedom by Effectively Countering Terrorism
Plea Bargaining and the Trial Penalty in Canada
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
Terrorist Babble and the Limits of Law: Assessing a Prospective Canadian Terrorism Glorification Offence
‘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 – …
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
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 – …
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 – …
The Surveillance Of Social Networking And The Social Value Of Privacy
This chapter argues that theories about privacy would benefit from embracing deliberative democratic theory on the grounds that it addresses harms to democracy, and widens our understandings of privacy infringements – …
Go With The Flow: The (Im)Plausibility of a Grand Canadian Intergovernmental Bargain on Energy Policy and Strategy
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 WP16-04: 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 – …
TSAS WP16-02: Impromptu Initiative: Security Certificates and Scale
This paper offers some background and theoretical framing as part of a larger project on the Canadian Security Certificate Initiative. Here I consider questions about different ways of thinking about – …
Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement
The construction of the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank has become the site of one of the most heated controversies the world over, the source of virulent propaganda, – …
Israel’s Relations with Egypt and Turkey during the Arab Spring
What implications do the uprisings in the Middle East in 2010–2011 hold for Israel’s foreign relations with the two most strategically prominent states in the region, Egypt and Turkey? The – …
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 – …
The International Monetary Fund and Surveillance
Evidenced-based criminal justice policy for Canada: An exploratory study of public opinion and the perspective of mental health and legal professionals
Timing is everything: The role of contextual and terrorism specific factors in the sentencing outcomes of terrorist offenders
The punishment of terrorist offenders remains a relatively unexplored topic. Research is especially needed in the United Kingdom in light of the continued criminalization of terrorism-specific offences and the July – …
The Canadian Judicial System
Estimating the prevalence and risks of incarceration of sexual offenders
The Importance of Both Opportunity and Social Disorganization Theory in a Future Research Agenda to Advance Criminological Theory and Crime Prevention at Places
The Role of Need for Cognitive Closure in Retrieval-induced Forgetting and Misinformation Effects in Eyewitness Memory
Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada
Planning for Major Events on Aboriginal Lands in Canada
Police Use of Deadly Force: International Comparisons and Research Issues
TSAS WP15-02: Terrorist Babble and the Limits of the Law: Assessing a Prospective Canadian Terrorism Glorification Offence
Since 2007, the Canadian government has repeatedly expressed interest in a terrorism “glorification” offence, responding to internet materials regarded by officials as terrorist propaganda and as promoting “radicalization”. In the – …