Deconstructing Neoliberal Rationality in an Increasingly Punitive Society: Canadian Public Support for ‘Tough on Crime’ Policies

Research has shown that criminal justice policy in Western democratic societies has become increasingly punitive (e.g. Wilson and Petersilia 2010), and that the public largely supports these policies, despite the fact that crime rates have been declini …

Fast Facts: The Tough on Crime Strategy has not made our Community Safer

Frontline workers characterize the tough on crime strategy as “one size fits all” designed with the dangerous few in mind but applied to everyone. Workers believe the strategy sets the community up for danger by keeping people in prison longer in overc …

Street Gangs in Winnipeg: Inner-city Youth Prevention Programs as Sites of Resistance?

Drawing on both post-colonial literature and critical gang studies research, this Master’s thesis situates the advent and growth of Indigenous street gangs in the context of settler colonialism, global economic restructuring, and the turn to a New Righ …

Racialized Communities and Police Services Project 2005-2012

Bill C-10: The truth about consequences