The number of police-involved sexual assault complaints reviewed by the Special Investigations Unit has been declining since 2021, data analyzed by CBC News shows. Researchers say changes to the Ontar...

Too many police officers in Canada are being accused of misconduct, from sexual harassment and assault to using police resources to stalk women.

After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face over the last year and enacted stricter policies to tamp ...

After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face over the last year and enacted stricter policies to tamp ...

This book studies the "disciplinary divides" between law and political science, including conceptual, methodological, and normative differences in how each field approaches policy, institutions, and legal phenomena.

The fallout from Project South can’t be limited to small tweaks. Police governance in this province needs an overhaul.

A CBC investigation of RCMP disciplinary records reveals hundreds of cases of alleged gender-based violence by members. Through a series of access requests, CBC received more than 10 years of discipli...

This book studies the "disciplinary divides" between law and political science, including conceptual, methodological, and normative differences in how each field approaches policy, institutions, and legal phenomena.

Study published in JAMA Network Open tracked rates of assault, auto theft, break-and-enter, robbery and theft over $5,000 from 2014 to 2025.

The rape and murder of Sarah Everard by an off-duty officer should have led to cultural change. Without it, neither communities nor officers are safe, says Mukund Krishna, chief executive of the Police Federation of England & Wales

Bill C-16 ("Protecting Victims Act") is a classic example of legislative overreach — a package of constitutionally vulnerable measures prioritizing political optics over the practical realities of our...

Ontario jails are heading toward a record year for overcrowding, remand populations and lockdowns just as politicians debate bail reforms that could lead to a further influx of accused behind bars, da...

This article presents a descriptive account of how the administration of third-party interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada has evolved since 1878. Although there has been an explosion of inter...

'Those guys are untouchable': Recording of a comedy roast obtained by a researcher contains audio of police cracking jokes about sexual harassment, trumped-up charges and destroying evidence

The reaction to a Supreme Court case involving child pornography has been completely untethered from the reality of the judges’ decision

Invoking the so-called notwithstanding clause doesn't prevent judicial review, despite what some provincial leaders might say.

A range of crime data has been going around to make the argument that Washington, D.C., is — or isn't — safe. We talk to crime experts to make sense of it all.

A look at political extremism in Canada in the wake of an alleged plot involving a militia to take over a portion of Quebec City.

One of the most common crimes civilian police oversight agencies investigate is sexual assault committed by police officers — a “profoundly disturbing, largely hidden problem in Canada,” says Danielle...

While high-profile bail cases tend to dominate media coverage, policy on criminal and legal matters must be guided by evidence, not headlines.

Nearly a decade ago, the death of a 41-year-old Anishinaabe man named Stacy DeBungee ignited a reckoning in Thunder Bay around long-simmering suspicions that municipal police officers were not adequat...

An Alberta judge is proposing new guidelines for how courts handle people who say they are Indigenous during sentencing hearings — but don't have proof to back up their claims.

After two years, Tara and Kaylan still cannot comprehend how their mild-mannered homebody son, who didn’t cause them any problems or get into trouble at school, who’d never interacted with the police ...

Where Have the Women Gone? An Exploratory Study of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund's Shifting Advocacy

Edmonton police and federal prosecutors wrangle over whether police can refuse to disclose certain misconduct records of officers testifying.

The Globe and Mail asked the shortlisted authors to identify a pressing problem the future Canadian leader must address

Even as the Conservative Party of Canada falls further behind in public opinion polls, its leader is intent on using Trump-like tactics of misinformation and fearmongering to disparage Canada’s illici...

This article delves into the historical context of Black resistance to racial oppression in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It focuses on a critical juncture in the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism in the city—the “Uptown Riots” of 1991. Through archival research and interviews with community members, the article explores how Black activists organized and responded to the municipality, province, and federal government’s complicity in racial oppression during and after the Uptown Riots. The concept of racial institutional orders is employed to analyze the complex relationships between Black communities advocating for self-determination and the governing institutions perpetuating racial concepts of Black inferiority and victimhood. By examining the continuity of resistance and the reconstitution of the dominant racial institutional order, this article sheds light on the enduring impacts of this incident on the affected communities.

Assistant Professor Political Science