Policing

2026

Simpson, R., Charman, M., Johnston, R., Brander, M., Bell, N., Hancock, K., & Ruzage, P. (2026). The effects of police vehicle presence on calls for service and police visibility: A multi-site field study at shopping malls in Canada. Journal of Criminal Justice, 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102569

2025

Yankey, M. (2025). Racism, colorblindness, and police culture in Canada. Race and Justice, Online First, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/21533687251377225

Martino, N., Dej, E., & Sanders, C. B. (2025). "Bureaucrats with badges": Bylaw enforcement and the invisibilization of homelessness. Social Problems, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaf003

Maier, K., Greene, C., Hunter, K., & Urbanik, M. M. (2025). ‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism. Policing and Society, 35(2), 187–202. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2024.2392818

Mokhtari, M., Greene, C., Maier, K., & Urbanik, M. M. (2025). “They stole all my shit”: A qualitative exploration of by-law practices and people experiencing homelessness. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231251347064

Urbanik, M. M., Maier, K., Greene, C., & Hunter, K. (2025). “What if I call them the smurfs?” Comparing marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences and interactions with auxiliary and sworn police officers. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 64(4), 453–463. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12614

2024

Martino, N., Sanders, C. B., & Dej, E. (2024). The 'regulatory grey zone': Bylaw enforcement's governing of homelessness and space. Policing and Society, 34(4), 305–320. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2263617

Campeau, H. & Keesman, L. D. (2024). “You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema. Sociological Forum, 39(3), 267–280. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13018

Haggerty, K. D., Bucerius, S. M., & Jones, D. (2024). Engaging evil? Conducting research with and on policing organizations. In T. Murray, E. Kirley, & S. Schneider (Eds.), Big policing and big crime (pp. 249–264). University of Toronto Press.

McNeilly, R., Berardi, Haggerty, K. D., Bucerius, S. M., Krahn, H. (2024). 'Valuable lives to save' vs. 'babysitting these people while they try to kill themselves': Changing police attitudes towards safe consumption sites. The British Journal of Criminology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae021

2023

Bucerius, S. M., Krahn, H., Haggerty, K. D., Berardi, L., McNeilly, R. (2023). Policing the overdose crisis. Kriminologisches Journal, 55(3), 180–195. 10.3262/kj2303180

Campeau, H. & Keesman, L. D. (2023). 'Robocops' in the Making: Reframing police-citizen interactions through the lens of body-worn cameras. The British Journal of Criminology, 64(3), 744–760. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad059

2022

Bucerius, S., Berardi, L., Haggerty, K., & Krahn, H. (2022) New drugs, new fears: synthetic opioids and adaptations to police practice. Policing and Society, 32(7), 832-845. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.2020783 

Greene, C., Urbanik, M.M., & Samuels-Wortley, K. (2022). “It stays with you for life”: The everyday nature and impact of police violence in toronto’s inner-city. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(17). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710503

Shmatko, I. (2022). Waiting for Europe: Utopia, narratives of the imaginary west and the materiality of police culture in Ukraine. The British Journal of Criminology. DOI: https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/bjc/azac087/6858698

2021

Berardi, L., Bucerius, S., Haggerty, K., & Krahn, H. (2021). Narcan and Narcan't: Implementation factors influencing police officer use of Narcan. Social Science & Medicine, 270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113669

Bucerius, S., Oriola, T.B., & Jones, D. (2021). Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an understanding of crime as a public health issue. The Police Journal, 95(3), 421-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211009577 

Green, C., Urbanik, M.M., & Yankey, M.K. (2021). I’m wise to the game: how inner-city women experience and navigate police raids. Feminist Criminology, 16(4), 403-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851211005541

2020

Aujla, W. (2020). Using a vignette in qualitative research to explore police perspectives of a sensitive topic: “Honor”-based crimes and forced marriages. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406919898352

Campeau, H., Levi, R. & Foglesong, T. (2020). Policing, recognition, and the bind of legal cynicism. Social Problems, 68(3), 658-674. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa017

Levi, R., Campeau, H. & Foglesong, T. (2020). Recognition gaps and economies of worth in police encounters. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 10, 87-109. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41290-020-00109-8

2019

Campeau, H. (2019). Institutional myths and generational boundaries: Cultural inertia in the police organization. Policing & Society, 29(1), 69-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2017.1371718

2018

Campeau, H. (2018). “The right way, the wrong way, and the Blueville way”: Standards and cultural match in the police organization. The Sociological Quarterly, 59(4), 603-626. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2018.1483782