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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Vancouver Vice Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End Arsenal Pulp Press	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 NEW! Vice and the Tumbling Dice From: Vancouver Vice View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, the author details the history of the policing of vice in Vancouver, and the corruption that often accompanied these efforts.	Aaron Chapman	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From Walking Black, White and Blue LInes From: Black Cop View James Lorimer and Company	Calvin recalls being recruited to the police force and his experience as an office with Halifax City Police. Contextualizes the black community in Halifax at the time.	Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe	28	2019	$2.80 Add
From NEW! We Are Like Waves From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle View Between The Lines	In We Are Like Waves author Kikélola Roach contextualizes the challenges we face in Canada as of 2020. The chapter includes a speech Roach delivered in Toronto on July 16, 2020.	Kikélola Roach	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From NEW! We Keep Each Other Safe Organizing for Prison Abolition during a Pandemic From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle View Between The Lines	In We Keep Each Other Safe the authors examine how the pandemic has brought with it an opportunity to push for decarceration as well as opportunity to imagine what a world without prisons could …	Alannah Fricker; Jessica Evans; Rajean Hoilett	9	2022	$0.90 Add
From “Welcome to ABL World!!!” From: Policing Indigenous Movements View Fernwood Publishing	The Logic of Elimination and the Algonquins of Barriere Lake	Andrew Crosby; Jeffrey Monaghan	36	2018	$3.60 Add
From What Do Police Do? From: Crisis in Canada's Policing View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the declining rate of crime in Canada, the amount of time police officers spend responding directly to crimes, and the rate at which Canadian police solve crimes.	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	39	2021	$3.90 Add
NEW! What Is to Be Done James Lorimer and Company	The concluding chapter offers a short but not exhaustive list of practical, reasonably achieved changes that could be made if local leaders step forward and demand that police begin to grapple …	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	35	2021	$3.50 Add
From NEW! What Is to Be Done with the RCMP? From: Canadian Policing View Irwin Law Inc.	In What Is to be Done with the RCMP? author Kent Roach examines the RCMP in Canada and how today the RCMP is charged with enforcing Canadian sovereignty over the increasingly transnational nature …	Kent Roach	37	2022	$3.70 Add
From Why Is It So Difficult to Change Policing? From: Crisis in Canada's Policing View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter addresses some key issues and outlines the various elements that make up police culture.	Christopher J. Williams; John Sewell	34	2021	$3.40 Add
From Working Girls From: No One to Tell View Collection: Systemic Racism and Discrimination in Canadian Policing and Courts Breakwater Books	In this chapter, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses the RCMPs response to prostitution, and how it reflected deeper systemic sexism in the organization. The chapter also covers …	Janet Merlo	11	2013	$1.10 Add
From Working Long From: No One to Tell View Breakwater Books	In Working Long, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo describes her work schedule and a typical work day, as well as more instances of sexism as they occur throughout her example work day.	Janet Merlo	11	2013	$1.10 Add
From Working Short From: No One to Tell View Breakwater Books	In Working Short, former RCMP officer Janet Merlo discusses staffing shortage patterns, as well as evidence of any sexual harassment she was experiencing at work. The chapter also discusses how …	Janet Merlo	16	2013	$1.60 Add