Alana Saulnier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1433463 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alana Saulnier |
| NOMBRES | Alana |
| APELLIDO | Saulnier |
| FIRMA | SAULNIER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8545-1809 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Automated Licence Plate Recognition in Canadian Policing
La reconnaissance automatique des plaques d'immatriculation (RAPI) est un outil policier très répandu, mais les informations disponibles sur l'utilisation de cette technologie au Canada sont limitées. Une enquête menée auprès des services de police canadiens révèle que 57 % ( n = 74) des services ayant répondu déclarent utiliser la RAPI. L'utilisation de la RAPI par la police n'est pas normalisée au Canada, ce qui laisse à chaque service le soin …
The impact of Covid-19 on police officer wellness
Disaster policing requires considerably more effort than working under normal conditions, thereby exacerbating existing threats to employee wellness. Research suggests that such working conditions may be harmful to physical and mental health outcomes, including increasing absenteeism. This study relies on personnel records from 3,398 police officers across 12 police services to determine the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted police o…
Body-Worn Camera Policy in Canadian Policing
Les caméras corporelles sont de plus en plus utilisées par les services de police du monde entier. Grâce à une enquête menée auprès de tous les services de police fédéraux, provinciaux, municipaux et des Premières Nations du Canada, il se dégage que 36 des 172 services de police canadiens ont déclaré avoir utilisé des caméras corporelles en 2022. Le présent article propose également une évaluation, sous forme de tableau de bord, de toutes les pro…
The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
Featuring chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of criminology, critical race studies, history, and more, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance cuts across history and geography to provide a detailed examination of how race and surveillance intersect throughout space and time. The volume reviews surveillance technology from the days of colonial conquest to the digital era, focusing on countries such as the United States, C…
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police
Objective Explore whether exposure to positive BWC videos – particularly, acts of heroism – affects public perceptions of police while accounting for existing trust in police.Method An online vignette-style experiment was conducted in which participants' (N = 407; x ̄age = 41.94 [s = 12.74]; 51% women, 80% White) existing trust in police was measured before random assignment to either view a short series of positive BWC videos or not. All partici…
Toward victim‐sensitive body‐worn camera policy
Research Summary Despite constituting a substantial portion of police contacts, victims in general, and violence against women (VAW) survivors in particular, have received little attention in body‐worn camera (BWC) research. As BWCs proliferate in policing, crafting victim‐sensitive BWC policies is important. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 33 survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence, we identify themes that character…
International perspectives on procedural justice
OBJECTIVE(S): We assessed the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs) in two countries on perceptions of everyday encounters with police, independent of officer respectfulness and participants' preexisting trust in police. HYPOTHESES: We expected BWC presence, officer respectfulness, and preexisting trust in police to all significantly improve individuals' perceptions of a police encounter. We also expected interactions indicating that BWC presence an…
Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities
The use of surveillance technologies by legal authorities has intensified in recent years. As new data collection technologies expand into law enforcement spaces previously dominated by interpersonal interactions, questions emerge about whether the public will evaluate interpersonal and technologically mediated interactions with legal authorities in the same ways. In an analysis guided by procedural justice theory, we examine whether and how lega…
Canadian Policing and Body-Worn Cameras
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are increasingly being used by police worldwide. This study demonstrates that, as of 2019, at least 36 percent of Canadian police services have considered or trialed BWCs. News reports suggest that this number continued to rise in 2020. In this article and the accompanying appendices, we strive to provide a comprehensive summary of all topics that Canadian police services should address in a BWC policy. These topics fall …
The Ride study
Research Summary During a brief interaction with motorists (i.e., a sobriety check), this study manipulated officer use (and declaration) of a body‐worn camera (BWC) (present; absent) while documenting participant BWC recollection (correct; incorrect) to assess effects on motorists’ perceptions of the encounter and of police more generally. Results (N = 361) demonstrate that perceptions of procedural justice were more favourable in the BWC‐presen…
Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras
Recent controversies over police use of force in the United States of America have placed a spotlight on police in Western nations. Concerns that police conduct is racist and procedurally unjust have generated public sentiments that accountability must be externally imposed on police. One such accountability mechanism is body-worn cameras (BWCs). Optimistic accounts of BWCs suggest that the technology will contribute to the improvement of communi…
Surveillance as Communicating Relational Messages
Theoretical understandings of how and why surveilled subjects perceive and react to surveillance have rarely been engaged in the field of surveillance studies. This research introduces relational models of procedural justice as a framework through which the attitudes and behaviours of surveilled subjects can be more consistently understood in particular (but not singular) surveillance contexts. Qualitative analysis of encounters with surveillance…
Racialized Borders
Surveillance systems are an element of everyday life in Canada, implemented through a variety of strategies for a multitude of reasons. Regardless of differences in orientation and purpose, surveillance systems wield considerable influence over individuals and groups. Given this influence, surveillance studies are an important area of sociological inquiry that have garnered substantial theoretical development. However, relatively little theorizin…
The “Rise” of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Canada
This article reviews Canadian UAV policy, regulation, and usage trends. Through a quantitative content analysis conducted on all UAV Special Flight Operation Certificates (SFOC) issued by Transport Canada between 2007 and 2012, this article charts the expansion of UAV use and the nature of this usage through key statistics. We argue that in combination, the rise of UAV use and the opaque nature of UAV oversight constitute the formation of a socia…
From Smart Borders to Perimeter Security
Since 2001, border security policy between Canada and the US has morphed from “smart borders” to the present “beyond the border” (perimeter security) agreement resulting in the expansion of new techniques of border surveillance including pre-emptive profiling of travellers and biometric data sharing. In this paper, we argue that these border agreements have increasingly resulted in a changing experience of sovereign power for those crossing the b…
Laboratory Experiments
The Ride study
Research Summary During a brief interaction with motorists (i.e., a sobriety check), this study manipulated officer use (and declaration) of a body‐worn camera (BWC) (present; absent) while documenting participant BWC recollection (correct; incorrect) to assess effects on motorists’ perceptions of the encounter and of police more generally. Results (N = 361) demonstrate that perceptions of procedural justice were more favourable in the BWC‐presen…
From Smart Borders to Perimeter Security
Since 2001, border security policy between Canada and the US has morphed from “smart borders” to the present “beyond the border” (perimeter security) agreement resulting in the expansion of new techniques of border surveillance including pre-emptive profiling of travellers and biometric data sharing. In this paper, we argue that these border agreements have increasingly resulted in a changing experience of sovereign power for those crossing the b…
Canadian Policing and Body-Worn Cameras
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are increasingly being used by police worldwide. This study demonstrates that, as of 2019, at least 36 percent of Canadian police services have considered or trialed BWCs. News reports suggest that this number continued to rise in 2020. In this article and the accompanying appendices, we strive to provide a comprehensive summary of all topics that Canadian police services should address in a BWC policy. These topics fall …
Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras
Recent controversies over police use of force in the United States of America have placed a spotlight on police in Western nations. Concerns that police conduct is racist and procedurally unjust have generated public sentiments that accountability must be externally imposed on police. One such accountability mechanism is body-worn cameras (BWCs). Optimistic accounts of BWCs suggest that the technology will contribute to the improvement of communi…
Racialized Borders
Surveillance systems are an element of everyday life in Canada, implemented through a variety of strategies for a multitude of reasons. Regardless of differences in orientation and purpose, surveillance systems wield considerable influence over individuals and groups. Given this influence, surveillance studies are an important area of sociological inquiry that have garnered substantial theoretical development. However, relatively little theorizin…
Laboratory Experiments
Body-Worn Camera Policy in Canadian Policing
Les caméras corporelles sont de plus en plus utilisées par les services de police du monde entier. Grâce à une enquête menée auprès de tous les services de police fédéraux, provinciaux, municipaux et des Premières Nations du Canada, il se dégage que 36 des 172 services de police canadiens ont déclaré avoir utilisé des caméras corporelles en 2022. Le présent article propose également une évaluation, sous forme de tableau de bord, de toutes les pro…
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police
Objective Explore whether exposure to positive BWC videos – particularly, acts of heroism – affects public perceptions of police while accounting for existing trust in police.Method An online vignette-style experiment was conducted in which participants' (N = 407; x ̄age = 41.94 [s = 12.74]; 51% women, 80% White) existing trust in police was measured before random assignment to either view a short series of positive BWC videos or not. All partici…
Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities
The use of surveillance technologies by legal authorities has intensified in recent years. As new data collection technologies expand into law enforcement spaces previously dominated by interpersonal interactions, questions emerge about whether the public will evaluate interpersonal and technologically mediated interactions with legal authorities in the same ways. In an analysis guided by procedural justice theory, we examine whether and how lega…
Surveillance as Communicating Relational Messages
Theoretical understandings of how and why surveilled subjects perceive and react to surveillance have rarely been engaged in the field of surveillance studies. This research introduces relational models of procedural justice as a framework through which the attitudes and behaviours of surveilled subjects can be more consistently understood in particular (but not singular) surveillance contexts. Qualitative analysis of encounters with surveillance…
Laboratory Experiments
Racialized Borders
Surveillance systems are an element of everyday life in Canada, implemented through a variety of strategies for a multitude of reasons. Regardless of differences in orientation and purpose, surveillance systems wield considerable influence over individuals and groups. Given this influence, surveillance studies are an important area of sociological inquiry that have garnered substantial theoretical development. However, relatively little theorizin…
The “Rise” of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Canada
This article reviews Canadian UAV policy, regulation, and usage trends. Through a quantitative content analysis conducted on all UAV Special Flight Operation Certificates (SFOC) issued by Transport Canada between 2007 and 2012, this article charts the expansion of UAV use and the nature of this usage through key statistics. We argue that in combination, the rise of UAV use and the opaque nature of UAV oversight constitute the formation of a socia…
From Smart Borders to Perimeter Security
Since 2001, border security policy between Canada and the US has morphed from “smart borders” to the present “beyond the border” (perimeter security) agreement resulting in the expansion of new techniques of border surveillance including pre-emptive profiling of travellers and biometric data sharing. In this paper, we argue that these border agreements have increasingly resulted in a changing experience of sovereign power for those crossing the b…
Surveillance as Communicating Relational Messages
Theoretical understandings of how and why surveilled subjects perceive and react to surveillance have rarely been engaged in the field of surveillance studies. This research introduces relational models of procedural justice as a framework through which the attitudes and behaviours of surveilled subjects can be more consistently understood in particular (but not singular) surveillance contexts. Qualitative analysis of encounters with surveillance…
Police Use of Body-Worn Cameras
Recent controversies over police use of force in the United States of America have placed a spotlight on police in Western nations. Concerns that police conduct is racist and procedurally unjust have generated public sentiments that accountability must be externally imposed on police. One such accountability mechanism is body-worn cameras (BWCs). Optimistic accounts of BWCs suggest that the technology will contribute to the improvement of communi…
The Ride study
Research Summary During a brief interaction with motorists (i.e., a sobriety check), this study manipulated officer use (and declaration) of a body‐worn camera (BWC) (present; absent) while documenting participant BWC recollection (correct; incorrect) to assess effects on motorists’ perceptions of the encounter and of police more generally. Results (N = 361) demonstrate that perceptions of procedural justice were more favourable in the BWC‐presen…
International perspectives on procedural justice
OBJECTIVE(S): We assessed the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs) in two countries on perceptions of everyday encounters with police, independent of officer respectfulness and participants' preexisting trust in police. HYPOTHESES: We expected BWC presence, officer respectfulness, and preexisting trust in police to all significantly improve individuals' perceptions of a police encounter. We also expected interactions indicating that BWC presence an…
Procedural Justice Concerns and Technologically Mediated Interactions with Legal Authorities
The use of surveillance technologies by legal authorities has intensified in recent years. As new data collection technologies expand into law enforcement spaces previously dominated by interpersonal interactions, questions emerge about whether the public will evaluate interpersonal and technologically mediated interactions with legal authorities in the same ways. In an analysis guided by procedural justice theory, we examine whether and how lega…
Canadian Policing and Body-Worn Cameras
Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are increasingly being used by police worldwide. This study demonstrates that, as of 2019, at least 36 percent of Canadian police services have considered or trialed BWCs. News reports suggest that this number continued to rise in 2020. In this article and the accompanying appendices, we strive to provide a comprehensive summary of all topics that Canadian police services should address in a BWC policy. These topics fall …
Toward victim‐sensitive body‐worn camera policy
Research Summary Despite constituting a substantial portion of police contacts, victims in general, and violence against women (VAW) survivors in particular, have received little attention in body‐worn camera (BWC) research. As BWCs proliferate in policing, crafting victim‐sensitive BWC policies is important. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 33 survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence, we identify themes that character…
The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
Featuring chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of criminology, critical race studies, history, and more, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance cuts across history and geography to provide a detailed examination of how race and surveillance intersect throughout space and time. The volume reviews surveillance technology from the days of colonial conquest to the digital era, focusing on countries such as the United States, C…
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police
Objective Explore whether exposure to positive BWC videos – particularly, acts of heroism – affects public perceptions of police while accounting for existing trust in police.Method An online vignette-style experiment was conducted in which participants' (N = 407; x ̄age = 41.94 [s = 12.74]; 51% women, 80% White) existing trust in police was measured before random assignment to either view a short series of positive BWC videos or not. All partici…
The impact of Covid-19 on police officer wellness
Disaster policing requires considerably more effort than working under normal conditions, thereby exacerbating existing threats to employee wellness. Research suggests that such working conditions may be harmful to physical and mental health outcomes, including increasing absenteeism. This study relies on personnel records from 3,398 police officers across 12 police services to determine the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted police o…
Body-Worn Camera Policy in Canadian Policing
Les caméras corporelles sont de plus en plus utilisées par les services de police du monde entier. Grâce à une enquête menée auprès de tous les services de police fédéraux, provinciaux, municipaux et des Premières Nations du Canada, il se dégage que 36 des 172 services de police canadiens ont déclaré avoir utilisé des caméras corporelles en 2022. Le présent article propose également une évaluation, sous forme de tableau de bord, de toutes les pro…
Automated Licence Plate Recognition in Canadian Policing
La reconnaissance automatique des plaques d'immatriculation (RAPI) est un outil policier très répandu, mais les informations disponibles sur l'utilisation de cette technologie au Canada sont limitées. Une enquête menée auprès des services de police canadiens révèle que 57 % ( n = 74) des services ayant répondu déclarent utiliser la RAPI. L'utilisation de la RAPI par la police n'est pas normalisée au Canada, ce qui laisse à chaque service le soin …
Political science (15 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Economic Justice (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Criminology (5 obras) · Perception (5 obras) · Procedural justice (5 obras)