Policing
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! Abolitionist Intimacies |
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in … | El Jones | 192 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Canadian PolicingWhy and How It Must Change |
Canadian Policing: Why and How It Must Change is a comprehensive and critical examination of Canadian policing from its colonial origins to its response to the February 2022 blockades and … | Kent Roach | 276 | 2022 | View |
Crisis in Canada’s PolicingWhy Change is So Hard, and How We Can Get Real Reform in our Police Forces |
In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic surged, millions gathered across Canada and the United States to protest violence and racism in policing sparked by the murder of George Floyd at … | Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 224 | 2021 | View |
Cybercrime: Awareness, Prevention, and Response |
Cybercrime: Awareness, Prevention, and Response is the first Canadian resource of its kind to effectively address the role of crime within this increasingly digitally dependent age and networked … | Kathy Macdonald | 305 | 2019 | View |
NEW! Disarm, Defund, DismantlePolice Abolition in Canada |
Canadian laws are just, the police uphold the rule of law and treat everyone equally, and without the police, communities would descend into chaos and disorder. These entrenched myths, rooted in … | Abby Stadnyk; Kevin Walby; Shiri Pasternak | 224 | 2022 | View |
NEW! National Security Law 2e |
National Security Law, 2e, is about the law governing the Canadian state’s response to serious crises — that is, events that jeopardize its national security. The book … | Craig Forcese; Leah West | 802 | 2021 | View |
No One to TellBreaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP |
In 2012, Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination while serving in Canada’s national police … | Janet Merlo | 232 | 2013 | View |
Policing Indigenous MovementsDissent and the Security State |
In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource … | Andrew Crosby; Jeffrey Monaghan | 230 | 2018 | View |
Racial Profiling and Human Rights in CanadaThe New Legal Landscape |
Racial profiling is a hot-button topic that elicits strong responses on both sides. A series of public discussions has so far failed to yield a conclusive consensus. Racial Profiling and Human … | Bobby Siu; Lesley A. Jacobs; Lorne Foster | 417 | 2018 | View |
The "Mr Big" StingThe Cases, the Killers, the Controversial Confessions |
How the police create an imaginary criminal gang to trick homicide suspects into a confession and a prison cell. There are people in prison who got away with murder until they told the boss of a … | Mark Stobbe | 226 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Vancouver ViceCrime and Spectacle in the City's West End |
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the … | Aaron Chapman | 256 | 2021 | View |
From An Introduction to Mr. BigFrom: The "Mr Big" Sting |
The chapter begins with descriptions of a series of murders where a Mr. Big strategy was later used. Mr. Big is an undercover operation in which police attempt to trick a suspect to disclose a … | Mark Stobbe | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
From Author’s Forward and Introduction |
Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add | |
From NEW! Chapter 1Scope From: National Security Law 2e |
Readings in Part 1 of this title, "Structure", cover the fundamental principles of Canadian National Security Law. Topics explored in this chapter include developing a definition of … | Craig Forcese; Leah West | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From Defining Racial Profiling |
Bobby Siu, an adjunct professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University, reviews the academic and government definitions of racial profiling with the aim of … | Bobby Siu | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
From NEW! Destruction: A Love PoemFrom: Abolitionist Intimacies |
A poem from the author El Jones. | El Jones | 1 | 2022 | $0.10 Add |