Access to information (ATI) and freedom of information (FOI) mechanisms are now relevant
features of governments in many liberal democracies today. Citizens, organizations, and …

In this article, we examine the spatial regulation of homeless people by National Capital
Commission (NCC) conservation officers in Canada's capital city, Ottawa. We explore NCC …

Freedom of information (FOI) is typically analyzed as a law and legal discourse. In sociology,
criminology, and socio-legal studies, FOI is also increasingly used as a method to generate …

This article explores how theories of radicalisation have placed an emphasis on the
development of an indicators-based approach to identify individuals who might engage in …

Freedom of information (FOI) requests are increasingly used in sociology, criminology and
other social science disciplines to examine government practices and processes. University …

Prison systems, with the ability to reject or approve applications for conducting research with
incarcerated populations, function as shapers of carceral knowledge and thus can …

Using an analytic of problematisation that incorporates insights from governmentality studies
and migration studies, this article documents and conceptualises the role of capacity …

The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the
British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year …

Many criminal justice organizations, including the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC),
grant research access through their own research branches. I attempted to interview CSC …

This multidisciplinary volume demonstrates how Freedom of Information (FOI) law and
processes can contribute to social science research design across sociology, criminology …