In this podcast, researchers discuss the expectations and evidence-based conclusions about body-worn camera efficacy. The podcast speaks to important issues of transparency, the need for policies that demonstrate care for their communities, and the need for organizational reform alongside effective technological integration.
CRSP Talk Podcast
Join us as we talk to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy and social change makers to explore diverse topics related to human security. CRSP Talk features discussions about threats to human security as well as insights into how it is enhanced and sustained. Along the way, we will periodically pause to discuss the research process itself and how researchers journey from generating ideas to sharing findings.
In this episode, we talk about the challenges facing equity and inclusion initiatives when it comes to attracting and retaining women police officers at all ranks. Our four guests are international experts in the field of diversity in policing and offer their thoughts on the masculinized culture of leadership, the success of direct entry and fast track initiatives, and where they think more research is needed.
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Episode Notes
Executive Producers for this episode are:
Dr. Debra Langan - Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University
Dr. Carrie Sanders - Director, Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP) and Professor, Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University
Guests for this episode include:
Dr. Marisa Silvestri is a reader in Criminology at the University of Kent. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender, crime, justice, policing and organizational cultures. She is currently working on two books: Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes and Police Leadership: Critical Perspectives.
Dr. Tim Prenzler is a professor of Criminology in the School of Law and Society at the University of The Sunshine Coast in Australia. His research interests include crime and corruption prevention, police and security officer safety, security industry regulation and gender equity in policing.
Dr. Jenny Fleming is a professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton and is the Co-Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research at the University of Southampton. She is the Editor-In-Chief of Policing and Society, an international journal of research and policy. Jenny has worked on an informal and formal basis with police agencies and police associations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Canada, The Netherlands, the United States and New Zealand.
Dr. Jennifer Brown is a visiting professor in the Manheim Centre at the London School of Economics. She is also a chartered forensic and chartered occupational psychologist. Her research interest is in police occupational culture especially with reference to stress experienced by officers and diversity -- particularly women's roles and coping strategies.
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This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.
It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
On this episode of CRSP Talk, CRSP researcher Jennifer Lavoie takes us through her own and other Canadian research on police responses to people in mental health crisis. Joining this conversation are professionals from mental health agencies, a police officer who works in training and a person with lived experience of police interactions while in mental health crisis.
Episode Notes
About our guests in this episode:
At the time of this recording Mr. Greg Hodge was a Peer Support Specialist with the Canadian Mental Health Association, and has since accepted a position as a Peer Support Specialist in the Forensics Program at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. We thank Greg for sharing his lived experience with us for this episode.
Dr. Krystle Martin is a clinical and forensic psychologist. At the time of this recording, she worked as a research scientist at Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. She conducts research at the intersection between mental health and the legal system. Krystle currently has her own clinical practice and continues to consult with local police services on issues related to mental health.
Sgt. Paul Wilson is a police training instructor with the York Regional Police, assigned to the Training and Education Bureau in the Practical Skills Unit.
Contributors to this episode's production:
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host and Producer
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Email her at avery@folktalestudio.ca
Jennifer Lavoie - Executive Producer
Carrie B. Sanders - Executive Producer
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Related research:
Huey, L., Ferguson, L., & Vaughan, A.D. (2021). The Limits of Our Knowledge: Tracking the Size and Scope of Police Involvement with Persons with Mental Illness. Royal Society of Canada. https://rsc-src.ca/sites/default/files/MH%26P%20PB_EN_0.pdf
LaVoie, J.A.A., Alvarez, N., & Kandil, Y. (2022). Developing community co-designed scenario-based training for police mental health crisis response: A relationship policing approach to de-escalation. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-022-09500-2
Livingston, J.D. (2016). Contact between police and people with mental disorders: A review of rates. Psychiatric Services, 67(8), 850-857. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500312
McNeilly, G. (2017). Police interactions with people in crisis and use of force. Office of the Independent Police Review Director Systemic Review Interim Report. https://www.oiprd.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/Police-Interactions-with-People-in-Crisis-and-Use-of-Force-Systemic-Review-Report-March-2017-Small.pdf
Mental Health Commission of Canada - https://mentalhealthcommission.ca
On this episode of CRSP Talk, we welcome Centre for Research on Security Practices researchers Bree Akesson and Andrew Basso to talk about their new book Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home. We discuss Bree and Andrew's work in warn-torn countries around the world, including their thoughts on how domicide can be applied to the Russian assault on Ukraine.
Episode Contributors
Host and Producer: Avery Moore Kloss, Folktale Studio
Website | Instagram | Email her at hello@averymoorekloss.com
Guests:
Dr. Bree Akesson, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Adversity and Wellbeing; Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work and Social Justice & Community Engagement (SJCE) Graduate Program; Associate Director, Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP)
Dr. Andrew Basso, Researcher affiliated with the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP)
With help from: Dr. Samantha Henderson
Episode Notes
From bureaucracy to bullets: Extreme domicide and the right to home by Bree Akesson and Andrew Basso
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/from-bureaucracy-to-bullets/9781978802711
Book website
Destruction of homes a war crime by Bree Akesson and Andrew Basso
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/03/07/destruction-of-homes-a-war-crime.html
The right to home: Domicide as a violation of child and family rights in the context of political violence by Bree Akesson, Andrew Basso, Myriam Denov
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/chso.12174
“We may go, but this is not my home”: Experiences of domicide and resistance for Palestinian children and families by Bree Akesson
https://journalofinternaldisplacement.org/index.php/JID/article/download/50/46
Cumulative domicide: The Sayisi Dene and destruction of home in mid-twentieth century Canada by Andrew Basso, Patrick Ciaschi, Bree Akesson
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011392120927763
Castle and cage: Meanings of home for Palestinian children and families by Bree Akesson
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40609-014-0004-y
Out of place research website
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In this episode, we explore the idea of gaining research access to institutions like police agencies or corrections facilities. Securing access can be a complicated process with many barriers to entry, sometimes insurmountable for criminologists who want to conduct research on criminal justice or security institutions. Despite challenges, a large body of empirical criminological research has been published here in Canada and around the world. We speak to four researchers involved in some of those publications.
Episode Contributors
Host and Producer: Avery Moore Kloss, Folktale Studio
Website | Instagram | Email her at hello@averymoorekloss.com
Episode Guests:
Dr. Sandra Bucerius, Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
Dr. Dale Spencer, Associate Professor, Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Dr. Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
Dr. Beatrice Jauregui, Associate Professor, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
Executive Producers: Dr. Carrie Sanders (Director, Centre for Research on Security Practices and Professor, Criminology, Wilfrid Laurier University) and Dr. Kevin Haggerty (Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Canada)
With help from: Dr. Samantha Henderson
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In this episode, Avery leads a panel discussion on conceptualizing trauma and suffering -- and how research methods can be used to walk the tightrope of both acknowledging the reality of research participants' suffering, while also uncovering their everyday experiences and humanity. Panelists include Bree Akesson, Martha Bragin and Cindy Sousa.
Support and Funding for this episode:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
On this episode, we bring you a case study on how people living in rural places perceive their personal safety and well-being. From what "community safety" means to how they (or how they don't) interact with the police in rural places. During this research project six rural community members from the County of Brant, Ontario were interviewed anonymously about their feelings of safety and well-being. Wilfrid Laurier's Dr. James Popham joins host Avery Moore Kloss to unpack what our rural participants say matters to them when it comes to safety outside of the big city.
Episode Contributors
About our guests in this episode:
Our research participants participated in these recorded interviews anonymously, and therefore are not named in the podcast. We thank them for their thoughts and involvement in this project.
Contributors to this episode's production:
Host and Producer: Avery Moore Kloss, Folktale Studio
Website | Instagram | Email her at hello@averymoorekloss.com
Host: Dr. James Popham, Wilfrid Laurier University
Executive Producers: Dr. Carrie Sanders
With help from: Jocelyn Booton and Dr. Samantha Henderson
Support and Funding for this episode:
Brant Community Foundation
Links to Research mentioned in this episode:
Sampson, R. J., Raudenbush, S. W., & Earls, F. (1998). Neighborhood collective efficacy -- Does it help reduce violence?. NIJ Research Preview, NCJ 184377. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/neighborhood-collective-efficacy-does-it-help-reduce-violence
Cebulak, C. (2004). Why rural crime and justice really matter. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 19, 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02802576
Giblin, M. J., Burruss, G.W., Corsaro, N., & Schafer, J.A. (2012). Self-protection in rural America: A risk interpretation model of household protective measures. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 23(4), 493-517. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403411421215
In this episode, we invite a panel of international researchers to discuss the importance of place in research. Led by Professor Susan Kemp from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the panel discusses the importance of place in human security and the theoretical lens they bring to their research work.
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Bree Akesson - Executive Producer and Panel Guest
Guests
Bree Akesson, is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Adversity and Wellbeing at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Research on Security Practices. Her research focuses on families who face extreme adversity, such as poverty, war and climate change.
Allen Ratliff is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Science and Social Work at Miami University in Ohio. He studies violence against marginalized young people, specifically violence against transgender and non-binary young people and young people experiencing homelessness.
Genevieve Graaf is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. She studies children's health and behavioural health policy and services.
Cindy Sousa is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, outside of Philadelphia. She is the co-director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being. Her work focuses on the health implications of violence, particularly related to families; the protective effects of culture, place, and social support; and professional responsibility in the face of collective suffering.
Susan Kemp is a Charles O. Cressey Endowed Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Social Work, Seattle and Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Support and Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Wilfrid Laurier University
A brand new report on a groundbreaking survey completed by the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network sheds new light on housing and homelessness in Canada as a gendered experience for women and gender diverse people. Network Co-Chair Kaitlin Schwan joins Avery to dive deep into the research and break down the 10 Key Findings that have changed the conversation on women's homelessness in Canada. A link to the "The Pan-Canadian Women's Homelessness and Housing Survey" is available in the show notes, or at the Women's National Housing & Homelessness Network.
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Kaitlin Schwan - Executive Producer and Guest
Erin Dej - Executive Producer
Carrie Sanders - Executive Producer
Kaitlin Schwan is co-chair of the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network, and Director of Research for The Shift. Kaitlin teaches social policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work, where she is appointed Assistant Professor, status only. She is also a Senior Researcher at the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (York University).
Hannah Brais is a member of the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network, and is the co-chair of the Policy and Government Relations Working Group. Hannah is the Research Coordinator at the Old Brewery Mission, a large homeless service provider in Quebec.
Khulud Baig is the Housing Researcher and Policy Advisor for the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network. She is the author on a national literature review on women and gender diverse people’s housing needs in Canada.
Alex Nelson is a PhD candidate at Western University in Anthropology. They sit on the steering committee of the the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network, and the steering committee of the Canadian Lived Experience Leadership Network.
Episode Notes
Read the full report "The Pan-Canadian Women's Homelessness and Housing Survey" in English.
For more about the Women's National Housing and Homelessness Network visit: https://womenshomelessness.ca/
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Alongside scholars and concerned journalists, a vibrant artistic movement is emerging to interrogate and intervene in security and surveillance operations. Critical surveillance art can be visually appealing, intensely participatory, and sometimes deeply troubling. In this episode, we feature the work of Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Dries Depoorter, two artists who take different approaches to critical surveillance art.
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Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Torin Monahan - Executive Producer and Guest
With the help of Carrie Sanders
Torin Monahan is a professor of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on institutional and cultural transformations with new technologies with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs. He is currently working on a project on critical surveillance art. Find more information about Torin's work here.
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker. She uses art to bring public attention to emerging issues in biotechnology. Heather has a PHD in electronic arts from Renssalear Polytechnic Institute. She is a visiting assistant professor of interactive media at NYU Abu Dhabi. See more of Heather's work including Stranger Visions and T35II A post-genomic love story on her website.
Dries Depoorter is a Belgian artist who addresses themes of privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance and social media through the creation of interactive installations, apps and games. See more of Dries' work, including Jaywalking here.
Support and Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Wilfrid Laurier University
On this episode, we’re talking about visualizing security studies and how scholars are working with different aesthetic approaches to research. Our panel of guests includes Sara Matthews, Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Brett Story. Though their projects are quite distinct, what our guests have in common is their turn to visual representation as a way of thinking about security.
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Sara Matthews - Executive Producer and Panel Guest
Ana Visan - Planning and Research Support
Guests
Brett Story is an assistant professor of Image Arts at Ryerson University. She is also a documentary filmmaker and geographer. Her work focuses on issues of state violence and social control. Specifically on the carceral state and geographies of the prison industrial complex.
Click here for a link to Brett's film A Prison in Twelve Landscapes.
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Nayrouz is interested in visual politics, place-making and spatial politics in the context of Israel and Palestine.
Sara Matthews is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her work explores the relations between visual culture and martial politics.
Click here for a link to Sara's work "The Cultural Life of Drones".
Support and Funding:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
In this episode, we invite a panel of international researchers to discuss their experiences with research ethics while performing field work in international settings. This panel discussion was inspired by ongoing conversations between CRSP members and their colleagues about the challenges of practicing research ethics in the field.
Read the transcript | Important links and studies
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Bree Akesson - Executive Producer and Panel Guest
Shane M. Dixon - Executive Producer
Guests
Bree Akesson is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also the the Canada Research Chair in Global Adversity and Well-being and the Associate Director of CRSP.
Kearney Coupland is a PhD candidate in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also the chair of the Community Research Ethics office.
Festus Moasun holds a PhD in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University and is currently teaching at Laurier, University of Windsor, and King’s College.
Steve Sider is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education here at Laurier.
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg is an Associate Professor in the Human Rights and Human Diversity program. She is also the Director of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa.
Support and Funding
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Wilfrid Laurier University
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss - Reporter, Host, & Producer
Carrie B. Sanders - Executive Producer
Alana Saulnier - Executive Producer & Guest
Guests
Dr. Alana Saulnier is an Assistant Professor at Lakehead University. She has studied the effects of body-worn cameras in pilot programs with the Chicago Police Department, Durham Regional Police Service, and the Guelph Police Service.
Dr. Bryce Newell is an Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. his book, "Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras" is a socio-legal study of body-worn camera adoption by two police agencies in Washington State. it will be released by the University of California press in June 2021. the link to pre-order his book is included in the show notes.
Dr. Cynthia Lum is the Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Crime Policy at George Mason University and also a professor in their Criminology, Law and Society Department. She is the first author of a Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review on body-worn cameras. we’ve included a link to that review in the show notes as well.
Dr. Michael White is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He’s also the Co-Director of Training and Technical Assistance for the U.S. Department of Justice body-worn camera funding program.
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We discuss the advantages of using podcasting as a way of sharing research findings. Because there is a diverse range of podcasting formats, selecting the one most appropriate for communicating your research stories can be difficult. To make choosing the right format a little easier, we explore the characteristics of four popular podcasting styles.
Episode Contributors
Avery Moore Kloss
Gajan Balan
Shane Dixson - Executive Producer
Thank you to our funders
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University
