Conference 2022

The Centre for Criminological Research is pleased to announce that our second annual conference will be taking place online March 31 - April 1st 2022. The conference is free and open to anyone who wants to participate. All the panels will be live-streamed on the Centre for Criminological Research’s YouTube channel www.youtube.com/c/centreforcriminologicalresearch or see links to individual panels below. We will be taking questions for the panelists using YouTube’s chat feature.

The theme of this year’s conference is “Police and Policing” We are thrilled to welcome a lineup of some of the world’s top criminologists, including our keynote speaker Tracey Meares of Yale Law School who will be giving a talk entitled “Reexamining the State’s Police Power, Safety Deprivation and the Meaning of Citizenship.”


Thursday, March 31

ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIMES


8:00 am – 9:20 am Bryan Hogeveen and Sandra Bucerius: Opening Remarks
Tracey Meares (Yale University) Keynote - Reexamining the State’s Police Power, Safety Deprivation and the Meaning of Citizenship.
(YouTube)

PUBLIC VIEW OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE POLICE (YouTube)
9:40 am – 11:00 am Chair Marta Urbanik
• Brittany Fox Williams, Lehman College, CUNY (U.S.), Should I Tell Anyone? Heterogeneous Youth Stigma Responses in the Aftermath of Involuntary Police Contact
• Kanika Samuels, Carleton University (Canada), Canadian youth perceptions of the police: A quantitative analysis
• Scot Wortley and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, University of Toronto (Canada), Meet the New Cops, Just Like the Old Cops: Race, Police Stops, and Perceptions of Anti-Black Police Discrimination in Toronto, Canada over a Quarter Century


POLICING BORDERLANDS AND FOREIGN LANDS (YouTube)
11:20 am – 12:40 pm Chair Sandra Bucerius
• Karine Cote Boucher, Université de Montréal (Canada), Becoming a police of the border: imaginaries of data fluidity and the effects of automation
• Ana Aliverti, WarwickU (UK), Benevolent policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
• Matt Light, University of Toronto (Canada), Ukraine: the politics of policing and gun ownership in a conflict society

POLICING SITUATED IN BROADER CONTEXTS (YouTube)
1 pm – 2:40 pm Chair Kevin Haggerty
• David Sausdal, Lund University (Sweden), On Danish detectives’ feelings of vocational frustration in a globalized world.
• Ian Loader, Oxford University (UK), Policing and everyday security in uncertain times'
• Sebastian Roché and Simon Varaine (Science Po Grenoble) (France), The rise of external police oversight in Western countries: governments don’t put all eggs in the same basket.
• Peter Manning, Fellow, Garfinkle Archive, Newburyport Massachussets (U.S.), Policing Futures

POLICE, HARM, AND MARGINALIZED COMMUNITEIS (YouTube)
3 pm – 4: 20 pm Chair Temitope Oriola
• Natasha Madon, Griffith University (Australia), Justice is the eye of the beholder: A vignette study of Muslims perceived stigma and trust
• Frank Edwards and Theresa Rocha Beardall, Rutgers University (U.S.), Agents of Empire and Social Control in Indian Country.
• Brianna Remster and Rory Kramer, Villanova (U.S.), The Unexplored Harms of Contemporary Policing


POLICE KNOWLEDGE WORK AND PRACTICES (YouTube)
4:40 pm- 6:00 pm Kevin Haggerty
• Janet Chan, UNSW (Australia), Rules in information sharing for security
• Michael Kempa, OttawaU (Canada), Policing the “Freedom Convoy”: The “Dark Politics” of Policing Systems Failure
• James Sheptycki, York University (Canada), Reflections on ‘Intelligence’ and the Politics of Policing in Canada


Friday, April 1

POLICE ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES (YouTube)
7:00 am – 8:20 am Chair Sandra Bucerius
• Sarah Brayne, UT Austin (U.S.), Police Pushback: When the Watcher Becomes the Watched
• Jan Beek, University of Mainz (Germany), People according to the regulation‘: the history and everyday use of categories of difference in German police work
• Laura Keesman, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), Police experiences with violence: reading bodies, organizing collective action, and the risk of freezing

CITIZENS VIEWS OF AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE POLICE (YouTube)
8:40 am – 10:00 am Chair Temitope Oriola
• Guillaume Roux, University of Grenoble (France), French minorities’ experience with the police
• Ron Levi, University of Toronto (Canada), Professionalism in the Vernacular: How Arrested Individuals Define Policing as Work and Relation
• Ben Bradford, University College London (U.K.), Police legitimacy, relational norms and reciprocity

POLICE PRACTICE AND CULTURE
10:20 am – 11:40 am Chair Holly Campeau (YouTube)
• Peter Kraska, University of Eastern Kentucky (U.S.), From Vietnam to Breonna Taylor: Police Militarization Trends and Consequences.
• Tony Cheng, Irvine (U.S.), Blue Illusions: Machine Policing and the Production of Public Input
• Carrie Sanders, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), Julie Gouweloos McMaster University (Canada), Debra Langan Wilfred Laurier University (Canada) Gender, Police Culture, and Structured Ambivalence: Navigating 'Fit' with the Brotherhood, Boys' Club, and Sisterhood