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Overview

Kevin Walby is affiliated with the University of Winnipeg in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in social sciences, particularly focusing on sociology, political science, and related subfields. Their work spans areas such as policing practices, crime patterns, criminal justice, and social control.

The main fields of study for Walby include Social Sciences, with significant contributions in the following subfields:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Social Psychology
  • Law
  • Gender Studies

Walby's research covers key topics including:

  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

The frequent collaborators in Walby's work include Justin Piché, Alex Luscombe, Haley Pauls, Randy K. Lippert, and Jamie Duncan.

Walby has published in various academic venues, with recurrent publications in:

  • Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
  • Surveillance & Society
  • Canadian Journal of Communication
  • Security Journal
  • Quality & Quantity

Among recent articles authored by Walby are:

  • "The visual politics of public police Instagram use in Canada" (2021), published in New Media & Society
  • "Framing fantasies: public police recruiting videos and representations of women" (2020), published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice
  • "Public police's philanthropy and Twitter communications in Canada" (2020), published in Policing An International Journal

Other recent related papers where Walby is noted as an author or co-author include:

  • "Algorithmic thinking in the public interest: navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to web scraping in the social sciences" (2021), published in Quality & Quantity
  • "Framing, Suppression, and Colonial Policing Redux in Canada: News Representations of the 2019 Wet'suwet'en Blockade" (2021), published in Journal of Canadian Studies

Walby also has a book publication titled Changing of the Guards (2022) released by the University of British Columbia.

Best Publications

  • On the Social Relations of Research: A Critical Assessment of Institutional Ethnography

    Kevin Walby

  • The polysemy of punishment memorialization: Dark tourism and Ontario's penal history museums

    Kevin Walby;Justin Piché

  • Problematizing Carceral Tours

    Justin Piché;Kevin Walby

  • Access to Information and Freedom of Information Requests: Neglected Means of Data Production in the Social Sciences

    Kevin Walby;Mike Larsen

  • Making up ‘Terror Identities’: security intelligence, Canada's Integrated Threat Assessment Centre and social movement suppression

    Jeffrey Monaghan;Kevin Walby

  • Spatial Regulation, Dispersal, and the Aesthetics of the City: Conservation Officer Policing of Homeless People in Ottawa, Canada1

    Kevin Walby;Randy Lippert

  • Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas:

    Helga Kristín Hallgrímsdóttir;Rachel Phillips;Cecilia Benoit;Kevin Walby

  • Interviews as encounters: issues of sexuality and reflexivity when men interview men about commercial same sex relations

    Kevin Walby

  • Institutional ethnography and data analysis: making sense of data dialogues

    Kevin Walby

  • Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside: Exploring the Use of (Counter)Surveillance as a Tool of Resistance

    Laura Huey;Kevin Walby;Aaron Doyle

  • How Closed-Circuit Television Surveillance Organizes the Social: An Institutional Ethnography

    Kevin Walby

  • Criteria for quality in qualitative research and use of freedom of information requests in the social sciences

    Kevin Walby;Alex Luscombe

  • Beyond folk devil resistance: Linking moral panic and moral regulation:

    Sean P. Hier;Dan Lett;Kevin Walby;André Smith

  • ‘They attacked the city’: Security intelligence, the sociology of protest policing and the anarchist threat at the 2010 Toronto G20 summit

    Jeffrey Monaghan;Kevin Walby

  • Institutional Ethnography and Surveillance Studies: An Outline for Inquiry

    Kevin T. Walby

  • Contributions to a Post-Sovereigntist Understanding of Law: Foucault, Law as Governance, and Legal Pluralism

    Kevin Walby

  • The rise of biocriminology: Capturing observable bodily economies of ‘criminal man’:

    Kevin Walby;Nicolas Carrier

  • Algorithmic thinking in the public interest: navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to web scraping in the social sciences

    Alex Luscombe;Kevin Dick;Kevin Walby

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism

    Jacqueline Z. Wilson;Sarah Hodgkinson;Justin Piché;Kevin Walby

  • Media, communication and the establishment of public camera surveillance programmes in Canada

    Sean P. Hier;Josh Greenberg;Kevin Walby;Daniel Lett

  • Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies

    Kevin Walby;Seantel Anaïs

  • Open-Street Camera Surveillance and Governance in Canada

    Kevin Walby

  • Supplementing the panoptic paradigm: surveillance, moral governance and CCTV

    Sean P. Hier;Kevin Walby;Josh Greenberg

  • Hunting for Harm: Risk-Knowledge Networks, Local Governance, and the Ottawa Needle Hunter Program

    Kevin Walby

  • Little England? The rise of open-street Closed-Circuit Television surveillance in Canada

    Kevin Walby

  • Ptolemizing Lombroso the Pseudo-Revolution of Biosocial Criminology

    Nicolas Carrier;Kevin Walby

  • Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective

    Kevin Walby;Randy K. Lippert

  • Institutional Ethnography as a Method of Inquiry for Criminal Justice and Socio-Legal Studies

    Agnieszka Doll;Kevin Walby

  • Policing Proliferation: On Militarization and Atomic Energy Canada Limited's Nuclear Response Forces

    Kevin Walby;Jeffrey Monaghan

  • Ottawa’s National Capital Commission Conservation Officers and the Policing of Public Park Sex

    Kevin Walby

  • Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design

    Kevin Walby;Alex Luscombe

  • Locating Televisual and Non‐Televisual Textual Sequences with Institutional Ethnography: A Study of Campus and Apartment CCTV Security Work

    Kevin Walby

  • Mode of Production versus Mode of Information: Marx, Poster, and an Argument for Anti-Capitalist Praxis1:

    Kevin Walby

  • Business Improvement Associations and Public Area Video Surveillance in Canadian Cities

    Kevin Walby;Sean Hier

  • Competing Analytical Paradigms in the Sociological Study of Racism in Canada

    Sean P. Hier;Kevin Walby

  • Carceral retasking and the work of historical societies at decommissioned lock-ups, jails, and prisons in Ontario

    Kevin Walby;Justin Piché

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