Garry Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587801 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garry Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garry |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1964-8187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The impossibility problem: When public health policies require what structural conditions prevent
"Bubbles" were introduced as a nonpharmacological strategy in 2020 COVID-19 public health guidelines, comparable to social distancing measures. Despite the seemingly clear metaphor of bubbles, public communication and guidelines for bubbling across Canada and globally created a context of ambiguity, confusion, and inconsistency. It was up to individual citizens, households, groups, schools, and workplaces to know what a bubble was and how to impl…
Vaccination in a Post-truth World: The Role of Self-rated Health, (Mis)trust, and Intuition
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how people discursively justify and make sense of their COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 39 people in British Columbia, Canada, just prior to the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine (Oct–Dec 2020), the objective of this study is to explore why some citizens are in favor of a COVID-19 vaccination while others are against receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Our qualitative d…
Keeping up with Covid‐19 information: Capacity issues and knowledge uncertainty early in the pandemic
This article examines the relationship between information consumption and mental health during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative approach, we interviewed 39 people in British Columbia, Canada between October and December 2020. Interestingly, half of the participants did not want to seek out new information on COVID-19, making their early insights and initial confusion salient. While some individuals did desire up-…
Regulatory disempowerment: How enabling and controlling forms of power obstruct citizen‐based regulation
Regulatory studies assume that citizens can act as regulators to complement or correct failing state and market forms of regulation. Yet, there is a growing literature that shows that in reality citizens may fail to be effective regulators. This paper systematically analyses how power inequalities obstruct citizens in their regulatory roles. It compares four case studies with highly different social and political contexts but with similar outcome…
Workplace Violence: Examining Interpersonal and Impersonal Violence among Truck Drivers
Employees who work alone are at greater risk of workplace violence. One of the higher‐risk lone worker occupations in North America is truck driving. Drawing on interviews with 158 truck drivers across the United States and Canada, this article examines how truck drivers interpret and experience both interpersonal and impersonal forms of workplace violence. Rather than rely on police enforcement and safety regulations, the truck drivers in this s…
Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases
Criminology is undergoing a process of innovation and experimentation with the rise of social media. Although police have traditionally been the locus of legal enforcement, ordinary citizens are increasingly afforded opportunities to participate in crowdsourced investigations. In this article, we explore the emerging field of crowdsourcing criminology and its relationship to newsmaking criminology, public criminology, and the reshaping of news as…
Big Oil U: Canadian Media Coverage of Corporate Obstructionism and Institutional Corruption at the University of Calgary
A 2015 investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) into the involvement of Enbridge Inc. at the University of Calgary drew widespread media attention in Canada on issues of academic integrity and legitimacy as well as renewed attention to the increasing centrality of corporate dollars in public institutions. All of this was further embedded in a public consideration of climate change and the contested legitimacy of carbon corpora…
Mapping Corporate Influence and Institutional Corruption Inside Canadian Universities
The Sociology of Near Misses: A Methodological Framework For Studying Events That 'Almost Happened
Near miss research shifts the conceptual focus away from the negative outcome of events to the study of everyday close calls and represents an alternative pathway into knowledge production. The discipline of sociology is well suited for the study of near misses given its focus on social context, social meanings, and analyzing social interactions and patterns of group behaviour. This article discusses the challenges that researchers will face when…
Academic Voice in Scholarly Writing
Tensions across disciplines and methodologies over what constitutes appropriate academic voice in writing is far from arbitrary and instead is rooted in competing notions of epistemology, representation, and science. In this paper, I examine these tensions as well as address current issues affecting academic voice such as gender bias and the rise of social media. I begin by discussing reflexivity in research and then turn to the ways in which per…
Frontline Safety: Understanding the Workplace as a Site of Regulatory Engagement
The concept of frontline safety encapsulates an approach to occupational health and safety that emphasizes the “other side of the regulatory relationship”—the ways in which safety culture, individual responsibility, organizational citizenship, trust, and compliance are interpreted and experienced at the local level. By exploring theoretical tensions concerning the most appropriate way of conceptualizing and framing frontline regulatory engagement…
A qualitative narrative policy framework? Examining the policy narratives of US campaign finance regulatory reform
In 2010, the narrative policy framework was introduced as a positivist, quantitative, and structuralist approach to the study of policy narratives. Deviating from this central tenet of the narrative policy framework, in this article we show that the framework is quite compatible with qualitative methods—and the various epistemologies associated with them. To demonstrate compatibility between qualitative methods and the Narrative Policy Framework,…
Governing Inside the Organization: Interpreting Regulation and Compliance
Looking inside organizations at the different positions, expertise, and autonomy of the actors, the authors use multisite ethnographic data on safety practices to develop a typology of how the regulator, as the focal actor in the regulatory process, is interpreted within organizations. The findings show that organizational actors express constructions of the regulator as an ally, threat, and obstacle that vary with organizational expertise, autho…
Constraints to Upholding Workplace Safety Laws and Regulations within Organizations
Le respect des lois et des réglementations implique l’existence, dans les organisations, de processus et de dispositifs qui permettent cette mise en conformité. Se fondant sur une ethnographie participante des modes de gestion de la sécurité dans une entreprise de fabrication industrielle, l’article montre que plusieurs facteurs culturels, personnels et structuraux contraignent les ouvriers dans l’exercice de leurs droits à la sécurité. Il est ai…
Constraints to Upholding Workplace Safety Laws and Regulations within Organizations
Le respect des lois et des réglementations implique l'existence, dans les organisations, de processus et de dispositifs qui permettent cette mise en conformité. Se fondant sur une ethnographie participante des modes de gestion de la sécurité dans une entreprise de fabrication industrielle, l'article montre que plusieurs facteurs culturels, personnels et structuraux contraignent les ouvriers dans l'exercice de leurs droits à la sécurité. Il est ai…
Organizational Self‐Censorship: Corporate Sponsorship, Nonprofit Funding, and the Educational Experience
La dépendance croissante du secteur privé envers la commandite a eu des conséquences sur la gouvernance des organismes sans but lucratif (OSBL). La recherche traditionnelle sur le financement a pris un angle d'observation essentiellement positif, montrant que les OSBL peuvent trouver des occasions d'influencer les intérêts de leurs bailleurs de fonds de manière à ce qu'ils deviennent plus compatibles avec la mission de l'OSBL. Dans cet article, l…
Socially constructing safety
Social scientific perspectives on occupational safety largely characterize it as a disembodied, tangible, and easily quantifiable phenomenon. Recent research efforts have focused on exploring organizational conditions that predict occupational safety outcomes, resulting in top-down, often de-contextualized prescriptions about how to control safety in the workplace (e.g. ‘management should promote a culture of safety’). There is growing interest i…
The Self-Regulation of Virtual Reality: Issues of Voluntary Compliance and Enforcement in the Video Game Industry
L'industrie du jeu vidéo et d'ordinateur récolte des bénéfices supérieurs aux films d'Hollywood et à la l'industrie de la pornographie—seul l'industrie de la musique excède ses revenus. Les jeux les plus célèbres emploient des représentations encore plus explicites de la criminalité, des drogues, du sexe, et de la violence extrême. En outre, grâce au progrès technologique, le contenu violent et sexuel des jeux vidèo devient de plus en plus réalis…
The Regulation of Corporate Violations
Journal Article The Regulation of Corporate Violations: Punishment, Compliance, and the Blurring of Responsibility Get access Garry C. Gray Garry C. Gray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 875–892, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl005 Published: 03 April 2006
The Local Culture of Punishment
We begin our ethnographic study of a young-offender facility in Canada by analysing a macro-level theoretical debate that began when Pat O’Malley (1999) critiqued David Garland’s (1996) well known British Journal of Criminology article, ‘The Limits of the Sovereign State’. We then use O’Malley’s competing ‘New Right Penality’ thesis as a theoretical bridge and a starting point for our own theoretical arguments on the role of criminal justice work…
Governing Inside the Organization: Interpreting Regulation and Compliance
Looking inside organizations at the different positions, expertise, and autonomy of the actors, the authors use multisite ethnographic data on safety practices to develop a typology of how the regulator, as the focal actor in the regulatory process, is interpreted within organizations. The findings show that organizational actors express constructions of the regulator as an ally, threat, and obstacle that vary with organizational expertise, autho…
A qualitative narrative policy framework? Examining the policy narratives of US campaign finance regulatory reform
In 2010, the narrative policy framework was introduced as a positivist, quantitative, and structuralist approach to the study of policy narratives. Deviating from this central tenet of the narrative policy framework, in this article we show that the framework is quite compatible with qualitative methods—and the various epistemologies associated with them. To demonstrate compatibility between qualitative methods and the Narrative Policy Framework,…
The Regulation of Corporate Violations
Journal Article The Regulation of Corporate Violations: Punishment, Compliance, and the Blurring of Responsibility Get access Garry C. Gray Garry C. Gray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 875–892, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl005 Published: 03 April 2006
Frontline Safety: Understanding the Workplace as a Site of Regulatory Engagement
The concept of frontline safety encapsulates an approach to occupational health and safety that emphasizes the “other side of the regulatory relationship”—the ways in which safety culture, individual responsibility, organizational citizenship, trust, and compliance are interpreted and experienced at the local level. By exploring theoretical tensions concerning the most appropriate way of conceptualizing and framing frontline regulatory engagement…
Socially constructing safety
Social scientific perspectives on occupational safety largely characterize it as a disembodied, tangible, and easily quantifiable phenomenon. Recent research efforts have focused on exploring organizational conditions that predict occupational safety outcomes, resulting in top-down, often de-contextualized prescriptions about how to control safety in the workplace (e.g. ‘management should promote a culture of safety’). There is growing interest i…
Regulatory disempowerment: How enabling and controlling forms of power obstruct citizen‐based regulation
Regulatory studies assume that citizens can act as regulators to complement or correct failing state and market forms of regulation. Yet, there is a growing literature that shows that in reality citizens may fail to be effective regulators. This paper systematically analyses how power inequalities obstruct citizens in their regulatory roles. It compares four case studies with highly different social and political contexts but with similar outcome…
The Local Culture of Punishment
We begin our ethnographic study of a young-offender facility in Canada by analysing a macro-level theoretical debate that began when Pat O’Malley (1999) critiqued David Garland’s (1996) well known British Journal of Criminology article, ‘The Limits of the Sovereign State’. We then use O’Malley’s competing ‘New Right Penality’ thesis as a theoretical bridge and a starting point for our own theoretical arguments on the role of criminal justice work…
The Sociology of Near Misses: A Methodological Framework For Studying Events That 'Almost Happened
Near miss research shifts the conceptual focus away from the negative outcome of events to the study of everyday close calls and represents an alternative pathway into knowledge production. The discipline of sociology is well suited for the study of near misses given its focus on social context, social meanings, and analyzing social interactions and patterns of group behaviour. This article discusses the challenges that researchers will face when…
Constraints to Upholding Workplace Safety Laws and Regulations within Organizations
Le respect des lois et des réglementations implique l'existence, dans les organisations, de processus et de dispositifs qui permettent cette mise en conformité. Se fondant sur une ethnographie participante des modes de gestion de la sécurité dans une entreprise de fabrication industrielle, l'article montre que plusieurs facteurs culturels, personnels et structuraux contraignent les ouvriers dans l'exercice de leurs droits à la sécurité. Il est ai…
Organizational Self‐Censorship: Corporate Sponsorship, Nonprofit Funding, and the Educational Experience
La dépendance croissante du secteur privé envers la commandite a eu des conséquences sur la gouvernance des organismes sans but lucratif (OSBL). La recherche traditionnelle sur le financement a pris un angle d'observation essentiellement positif, montrant que les OSBL peuvent trouver des occasions d'influencer les intérêts de leurs bailleurs de fonds de manière à ce qu'ils deviennent plus compatibles avec la mission de l'OSBL. Dans cet article, l…
Workplace Violence: Examining Interpersonal and Impersonal Violence among Truck Drivers
Employees who work alone are at greater risk of workplace violence. One of the higher‐risk lone worker occupations in North America is truck driving. Drawing on interviews with 158 truck drivers across the United States and Canada, this article examines how truck drivers interpret and experience both interpersonal and impersonal forms of workplace violence. Rather than rely on police enforcement and safety regulations, the truck drivers in this s…
Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases
Criminology is undergoing a process of innovation and experimentation with the rise of social media. Although police have traditionally been the locus of legal enforcement, ordinary citizens are increasingly afforded opportunities to participate in crowdsourced investigations. In this article, we explore the emerging field of crowdsourcing criminology and its relationship to newsmaking criminology, public criminology, and the reshaping of news as…
Big Oil U: Canadian Media Coverage of Corporate Obstructionism and Institutional Corruption at the University of Calgary
A 2015 investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) into the involvement of Enbridge Inc. at the University of Calgary drew widespread media attention in Canada on issues of academic integrity and legitimacy as well as renewed attention to the increasing centrality of corporate dollars in public institutions. All of this was further embedded in a public consideration of climate change and the contested legitimacy of carbon corpora…
Mapping Corporate Influence and Institutional Corruption Inside Canadian Universities
Academic Voice in Scholarly Writing
Tensions across disciplines and methodologies over what constitutes appropriate academic voice in writing is far from arbitrary and instead is rooted in competing notions of epistemology, representation, and science. In this paper, I examine these tensions as well as address current issues affecting academic voice such as gender bias and the rise of social media. I begin by discussing reflexivity in research and then turn to the ways in which per…
The Self-Regulation of Virtual Reality: Issues of Voluntary Compliance and Enforcement in the Video Game Industry
L'industrie du jeu vidéo et d'ordinateur récolte des bénéfices supérieurs aux films d'Hollywood et à la l'industrie de la pornographie—seul l'industrie de la musique excède ses revenus. Les jeux les plus célèbres emploient des représentations encore plus explicites de la criminalité, des drogues, du sexe, et de la violence extrême. En outre, grâce au progrès technologique, le contenu violent et sexuel des jeux vidèo devient de plus en plus réalis…
The Regulation of Corporate Violations
Journal Article The Regulation of Corporate Violations: Punishment, Compliance, and the Blurring of Responsibility Get access Garry C. Gray Garry C. Gray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 46, Issue 5, September 2006, Pages 875–892, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azl005 Published: 03 April 2006
The Local Culture of Punishment
We begin our ethnographic study of a young-offender facility in Canada by analysing a macro-level theoretical debate that began when Pat O’Malley (1999) critiqued David Garland’s (1996) well known British Journal of Criminology article, ‘The Limits of the Sovereign State’. We then use O’Malley’s competing ‘New Right Penality’ thesis as a theoretical bridge and a starting point for our own theoretical arguments on the role of criminal justice work…
The Self-Regulation of Virtual Reality: Issues of Voluntary Compliance and Enforcement in the Video Game Industry
L'industrie du jeu vidéo et d'ordinateur récolte des bénéfices supérieurs aux films d'Hollywood et à la l'industrie de la pornographie—seul l'industrie de la musique excède ses revenus. Les jeux les plus célèbres emploient des représentations encore plus explicites de la criminalité, des drogues, du sexe, et de la violence extrême. En outre, grâce au progrès technologique, le contenu violent et sexuel des jeux vidèo devient de plus en plus réalis…
Organizational Self‐Censorship: Corporate Sponsorship, Nonprofit Funding, and the Educational Experience
La dépendance croissante du secteur privé envers la commandite a eu des conséquences sur la gouvernance des organismes sans but lucratif (OSBL). La recherche traditionnelle sur le financement a pris un angle d'observation essentiellement positif, montrant que les OSBL peuvent trouver des occasions d'influencer les intérêts de leurs bailleurs de fonds de manière à ce qu'ils deviennent plus compatibles avec la mission de l'OSBL. Dans cet article, l…
Socially constructing safety
Social scientific perspectives on occupational safety largely characterize it as a disembodied, tangible, and easily quantifiable phenomenon. Recent research efforts have focused on exploring organizational conditions that predict occupational safety outcomes, resulting in top-down, often de-contextualized prescriptions about how to control safety in the workplace (e.g. ‘management should promote a culture of safety’). There is growing interest i…
Constraints to Upholding Workplace Safety Laws and Regulations within Organizations
Le respect des lois et des réglementations implique l’existence, dans les organisations, de processus et de dispositifs qui permettent cette mise en conformité. Se fondant sur une ethnographie participante des modes de gestion de la sécurité dans une entreprise de fabrication industrielle, l’article montre que plusieurs facteurs culturels, personnels et structuraux contraignent les ouvriers dans l’exercice de leurs droits à la sécurité. Il est ai…
Constraints to Upholding Workplace Safety Laws and Regulations within Organizations
Le respect des lois et des réglementations implique l'existence, dans les organisations, de processus et de dispositifs qui permettent cette mise en conformité. Se fondant sur une ethnographie participante des modes de gestion de la sécurité dans une entreprise de fabrication industrielle, l'article montre que plusieurs facteurs culturels, personnels et structuraux contraignent les ouvriers dans l'exercice de leurs droits à la sécurité. Il est ai…
Governing Inside the Organization: Interpreting Regulation and Compliance
Looking inside organizations at the different positions, expertise, and autonomy of the actors, the authors use multisite ethnographic data on safety practices to develop a typology of how the regulator, as the focal actor in the regulatory process, is interpreted within organizations. The findings show that organizational actors express constructions of the regulator as an ally, threat, and obstacle that vary with organizational expertise, autho…
A qualitative narrative policy framework? Examining the policy narratives of US campaign finance regulatory reform
In 2010, the narrative policy framework was introduced as a positivist, quantitative, and structuralist approach to the study of policy narratives. Deviating from this central tenet of the narrative policy framework, in this article we show that the framework is quite compatible with qualitative methods—and the various epistemologies associated with them. To demonstrate compatibility between qualitative methods and the Narrative Policy Framework,…
Academic Voice in Scholarly Writing
Tensions across disciplines and methodologies over what constitutes appropriate academic voice in writing is far from arbitrary and instead is rooted in competing notions of epistemology, representation, and science. In this paper, I examine these tensions as well as address current issues affecting academic voice such as gender bias and the rise of social media. I begin by discussing reflexivity in research and then turn to the ways in which per…
Frontline Safety: Understanding the Workplace as a Site of Regulatory Engagement
The concept of frontline safety encapsulates an approach to occupational health and safety that emphasizes the “other side of the regulatory relationship”—the ways in which safety culture, individual responsibility, organizational citizenship, trust, and compliance are interpreted and experienced at the local level. By exploring theoretical tensions concerning the most appropriate way of conceptualizing and framing frontline regulatory engagement…
Big Oil U: Canadian Media Coverage of Corporate Obstructionism and Institutional Corruption at the University of Calgary
A 2015 investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) into the involvement of Enbridge Inc. at the University of Calgary drew widespread media attention in Canada on issues of academic integrity and legitimacy as well as renewed attention to the increasing centrality of corporate dollars in public institutions. All of this was further embedded in a public consideration of climate change and the contested legitimacy of carbon corpora…
Mapping Corporate Influence and Institutional Corruption Inside Canadian Universities
The Sociology of Near Misses: A Methodological Framework For Studying Events That 'Almost Happened
Near miss research shifts the conceptual focus away from the negative outcome of events to the study of everyday close calls and represents an alternative pathway into knowledge production. The discipline of sociology is well suited for the study of near misses given its focus on social context, social meanings, and analyzing social interactions and patterns of group behaviour. This article discusses the challenges that researchers will face when…
Workplace Violence: Examining Interpersonal and Impersonal Violence among Truck Drivers
Employees who work alone are at greater risk of workplace violence. One of the higher‐risk lone worker occupations in North America is truck driving. Drawing on interviews with 158 truck drivers across the United States and Canada, this article examines how truck drivers interpret and experience both interpersonal and impersonal forms of workplace violence. Rather than rely on police enforcement and safety regulations, the truck drivers in this s…
Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases
Criminology is undergoing a process of innovation and experimentation with the rise of social media. Although police have traditionally been the locus of legal enforcement, ordinary citizens are increasingly afforded opportunities to participate in crowdsourced investigations. In this article, we explore the emerging field of crowdsourcing criminology and its relationship to newsmaking criminology, public criminology, and the reshaping of news as…
Regulatory disempowerment: How enabling and controlling forms of power obstruct citizen‐based regulation
Regulatory studies assume that citizens can act as regulators to complement or correct failing state and market forms of regulation. Yet, there is a growing literature that shows that in reality citizens may fail to be effective regulators. This paper systematically analyses how power inequalities obstruct citizens in their regulatory roles. It compares four case studies with highly different social and political contexts but with similar outcome…
Keeping up with Covid‐19 information: Capacity issues and knowledge uncertainty early in the pandemic
This article examines the relationship between information consumption and mental health during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative approach, we interviewed 39 people in British Columbia, Canada between October and December 2020. Interestingly, half of the participants did not want to seek out new information on COVID-19, making their early insights and initial confusion salient. While some individuals did desire up-…
Vaccination in a Post-truth World: The Role of Self-rated Health, (Mis)trust, and Intuition
This article offers a qualitative analysis of how people discursively justify and make sense of their COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 39 people in British Columbia, Canada, just prior to the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine (Oct–Dec 2020), the objective of this study is to explore why some citizens are in favor of a COVID-19 vaccination while others are against receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Our qualitative d…
The impossibility problem: When public health policies require what structural conditions prevent
"Bubbles" were introduced as a nonpharmacological strategy in 2020 COVID-19 public health guidelines, comparable to social distancing measures. Despite the seemingly clear metaphor of bubbles, public communication and guidelines for bubbling across Canada and globally created a context of ambiguity, confusion, and inconsistency. It was up to individual citizens, households, groups, schools, and workplaces to know what a bubble was and how to impl…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works)