FEATURED AUTHOR
Kevin Walby
Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice (CAIJ), and Chancellor's Research Chair (2015-2018) at University of Winnipeg. He has published in British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Theoretical Criminology, Punishment & Society, Security Journal, Security Dialogue, Policing & Society, Social & Legal Studies, and more.
Biography
Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is the author of Touching Encounters: Sex, Work and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting and the co-author of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context as well as A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers. He is the co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice: Critical Research Strategies for Journalists, Scholars and Activists; Brokering Access: Power, Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada; The Handbook of Prison Tourism; Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service; National Security, Surveillance, and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective; Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World; and Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective. He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.Education
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PhD, Carleton, 2010
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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public policing; private security; corporate security; surveillance; risk; imprisonment and punishment; critical criminology; socio-legal studies; access to information and freedom of information law; social justice; access to justice; urban studies; public culture; qualitative research strategies, including institutional ethnography and narrative analysis