Crim Works

Interested in criminal justice sentencing? Then follow along as I introduce you to the work of Julian V. Roberts.

2 Aug 20209min

Shockingly, despite the fact that much of Canada is rural and/or remote, and wide swathes of Canada are in the northern reaches, we produce very little research on the policing of communities in these...

2 Aug 20209min

A brief intro to the work of Margaret Beare, focusing on her concern with the 'politics of policing.'

2 Aug 20208min

Want to know how Canadians contributed to the field of Environmental Criminology? Want to know where Geographic profiling came from? Listen to this audiocast on the work of Paul and Patricia Brantingh...

2 Aug 202012min

Want to understand why it's so important for police to be at the table when it comes to creating networked responses to violence and other forms of crime prevention? Then we need to talk about the wor...

2 Aug 202011min

A lot of discussion lately on the use of federal agents in Portland. To gain a sense of what's going on and how it could create problems for policing more generally, I turn to the work of Jean-Paul Br...

2 Aug 202012min

In this podcast I focus on two important pieces of work by James Q. Wilson - his research into the 'varieties of police behavior' and his work with George Kelling on 'Broken Windows.'

28 Jul 202010min

Egon Bittner's early field research on frontline policing provided critical insights into an important question: what do police do?

28 Jul 20208min