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The brutal methods employed by the French police to maintain order during protests contrast with those of its European neighbours.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits Canadian police from using excessive force and conducting unreasonable searches. But research has found many cases of police violating the Charter.
There have been longstanding calls for police and governments to collect and share data about incidents where the use of force caused injury and death to civilians.
Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
A pervasive history of bullying and sexual misconduct plagues law enforcement agencies and illustrates the failure of police forces to police themselves.
Evidence confirms that minimum-force policing is safer and more effective than the style of policing so colourfully depicted in US crime shows and movies like Die Hard.
When communities face security challenges and lack legal protection, they find innovative ways to respond.
The Toronto Police Service chief apologized to the public for the findings of an investigation that demonstrated the Toronto police’s excessive use of force on racialized residents.
The greedy tendencies of police departments help illustrate why public police funding is a major problem today in Canada and the United States.
School districts across the nation are wrestling with whether to have police officers on school grounds.
Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 – 17,000 more than official federal data suggests.
When there is nothing new to say, pegging news stories to the anniversaries of the deaths of Black Americans objectifies the victims and helps make violence ordinary.
A year after historic protests for police reform, it’s clear that the Toronto Police aren’t sincere about changing how they treat historically over-policed and criminalized communities.
The conviction of police officer Benjamin Monk for the manslaughter of Dalian Atkinson is a very rare case.
Evidence shows that many Black Americans experience police killings of unarmed Black people – even those they do not know – as traumatic events, causing acute physical and emotional distress.
Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
Violence is a tough but necessary subject to address. Here are four articles on how to speak to your child about violence.
A game theory expert explains why a witness to a troubling situation who is in a group may feel a lesser sense of personal responsibility than a single individual.
Scholars of policing, law, race and Minnesota history explain the landmark guilty verdicts handed down in the trial for the murder of George Floyd.
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Villanova University
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Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Coventry University
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Head of Clinical Services, dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Professor, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
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Professor of Criminology, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
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Director, Centre of East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Criminology, Deakin University
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