Title : Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose
(on the Need to Adopt an Evidence Based Policing Paradigm)
Guest speaker : Laura Huey
Laura Huey is the Director of the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing, founder of the Canadian Policing Research Network, a member of the Council of Canadian Academies' Expert Panel on Policing, a founding member of SERENE-RISC and Senior Researcher for TSAS. Her current research focuses on police well-being and the incorporation of evidence based policing into Canadian research, training and education.
Summary
In 1981 Ericson and Chan offered a prescient observation: the ‘crime problem’ and continuing consumer demands would result in an “upward spiraling of police expenditures and employment rate.” Some thirty years and several conferences, workshops, white papers, reports and analyses later, we remain intractably locked in interminable discussions and debates on this public policy issue, with too little to show for our efforts.
In this paper, I explore one of the key challenges limiting progress: lack of domestic research capacity. The first part of this paper offers an empirical examination of the Canadian policing research literature over the past ten years, highlighting both its strengths and deficits. The second section focuses on the recent move towards evidence based policing in Canada and the development of the Canadian Society of Evidence Based Policing.
Conférence présentée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée
