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Fall 2016
My thesis is concerned with how law enforcement officers make sense of and use the new visibility created by body worn video (BWV) and in-vehicle video (IVV) in the context of their work. The data comes from a case study of a small policing organization in the Canadian prairies. Data was...
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Fall 2023
This thesis presents local police officers’ experiences with Edmonton’s homeless encampments and the unhoused population. For this project, I asked two research questions: 1) How do Edmonton Police Service officers reflect upon, perceive, and express their interactions with homeless encampments...
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Homeless and policed: The racialized policing of homelessness, space, and mobility in Edmonton
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The City of Edmonton recently developed an anti-panhandling bylaw and a diverted giving campaign. Previous literature on the policing of homelessness has focused on the development and discourses of these measures. Using 22 interviews with homeless adults, I examine how homeless persons...
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Race, Discrimination, and Trust in Police: Insights from Black Canadians
2024-11-12
Existing studies on race and policing in Canada have shown that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) experience discrimination and excessive police use of force. This paper examines the relationship between experience of discrimination and level of trust in police by narrowing its focus...
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09/28/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The proposed research is concerned with the evolution of the School Resource Officer (SRO) program in Canada. It focuses on the experiences of persons with nexus to the SRO program. These include (1) students, (2) parents, (3) school administrators and board trustees, (4)...
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2019-10-11
SSHRC IG awarded 2020. The community is an essential partner in law enforcement, and municipal "citizen satisfaction surveys" provide police with a snapshot of how the public perceives their performance. However, only a small proportion of respondents represented in these samples have experienced...