Marta‐marika Urbanik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta‐marika Urbanik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta‐marika |
| FAMILY NAME | Urbanik |
| SIGNATURE | URBANIK M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5669-7789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
They Stole All My Shit”: A Qualitative Exploration of By-Law Practices and People Experiencing Homelessness
Drawing on interviews with 65 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), this article examines the role and impact of municipal by-laws’ daily governance of PEH and their possessions. We argue PEH’s possessions are a site of governance that by-law officers use to exert both punitive control and responsibilization onto PEH’s lives. We show how the daily governance of possessions enhances and reinforces existing …
You have to be grateful that they have eyes watching over us: When Security Guards Protect and Serve People Experiencing Homelessness
Relationships between private security and People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) are largely portrayed in negative, controlling, and punitive terms. Studies have shown that like police, security guards regularly engage in behaviors that impede PEH's access to public spaces and produce harm. By contrast, drawing upon interviews with 50 PEH in a mid-sized Canadian city, our research examining PEH's experiences with security suggests these relation…
Women in Gang Research: An Overview
This chapter is multipronged, broadly evaluating women in gang ethnography. First, the chapter provides an overview of the women who have produced notable works in this area and documents the contributions of female gang ethnographers across disciplines to the growing field of gang studies. It highlights how female scholars have extended the field, especially pertaining to unmasking the roles of girls and women in gangs, gender theory, feminist a…
They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers
Private security guards are increasingly supplementing public police in the policing of urban parks. In the context of this expansion, little is known about how people who frequent and depend on access to these spaces, such as street-involved people who use drugs, view and experience private security. Drawing upon 30 interviews and ethnographic observations with unhoused, street-involved people who use drugs in a small Canadian city, findings sho…
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People
Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremism, representing a broader trend in Westernized countries for responding to social issues through anti-hate policies. Can these approaches protect unhoused people? Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and observation with 50 unhoused community members in a Canadian city, we outline their experiences with …
It's just not the same”: Exploring PWUD’ perceptions of and experiences with drug policy and SCS services change in a Canadian City
Experiences with compounding surveillance and social control as a barrier to safe consumption service access
Barriers to accessing supervised consumption services are well documented in the literature. Police and security presence in the areas surrounding these sites are two such barriers. Yet, despite what we know about these autonomous social control actors, less is known about whether/how the convergence of actors within neighborhoods housing supervised consumption sites shapes service access. This paper examines how people who use drugs navigate pol…
It Stays with You for Life”: The Everyday Nature and Impact of Police Violence in Toronto’s Inner-City
In recent years, police violence has amassed notable international attention from the public, practitioners, and academics alike. This paper explores experiences and perceptions of police violence in Canada, documenting the impacts of direct and vicarious experiences of police violence on inner-city residents. The study employed semi-structured interviews with 45 community members across three Toronto inner-city neighbourhoods. Using a general in…
A qualitative comparison of how people who use drugs’ perceptions and experiences of policing affect supervised consumption services access in two cities
A rejoinder to Brooks et al. “Response to operational and contextual barriers to accessing supervised consumption services in two Canadian cities”
Operational and contextual barriers to accessing supervised consumption services in two Canadian cities
I’m Wise to the Game”: How Inner-City Women Experience and Navigate Police Raids
Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto's inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women bel…
There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City
Many inner-city neighbourhoods across North America are disproportionately subject to heightened and aggressive policing strategies. Consequently, many inner-city residents have developed strategies to limit their encounters with police. Research examining police–community relationships has traditionally examined how residents perceive and respond to ‘the police’. However, this homogenizes and over-simplifies nuanced processes. Based upon 48 inte…
Making Sense of Murder: The Reality versus the Realness of Gang Homicides in Two Contexts
Despite the proliferation of research examining gang violence, little is known about how gang members experience, make sense of, and respond to peer fatalities. Drawing from two ethnographies in the Netherlands and Canada, this paper interrogates how gang members experience their affiliates' murder in different street milieus. We describe how gang members in both studies made sense of and navigated their affiliates' murder(s) by conducting pseudo…
GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies
Recent research on street-involved populations has documented their online presence and has highlighted the effects of their online presentations on their lives in the real world. Given the increasing conflation between the online and offline world, contemporary urban ethnographers should pay increased attention to their participants' online presence and interactions. However, methodological training of this sort is still in its infancy stages an…
It’s Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
As the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged populations, including drug dealers, gang members and street hustlers. These individuals increasingly publicize their activities and associations via social media networks. Little is known, however, about the dangers criminal actors face in using social media, and how they manage those risks. Based on interview data and ethnographic obse…
Drawing Boundaries or Drawing Weapons? Neighborhood Master Status as Suppressor of Gang Violence
Before there was danger but there was rules. And safety in those rules’: Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment On Criminal Structures
Journal Article 'Before There Was Danger But There Was Rules. And Safety in Those Rules': Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment on Criminal Structures Get access Marta-Marika Urbanik, Marta-Marika Urbanik Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara K. Thompson, Sara K. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra M. Bucerius Sandra M. Bucerius Search for other works by…
Wendy Chan and Dorothy Chunn, Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
A lthough many Canadians may be uncomfortable with discussions about issues pertaining to race and crime, Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice In Canada demonstrates that race and racism remain at the forefront of crime as well as criminal justice relations and discourse in Canada. Chan and Chunn provide a compelling critical analysis of the current state of affairs in Canada; the authors interrogate the multiple avenues through which racia…
GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies
Recent research on street-involved populations has documented their online presence and has highlighted the effects of their online presentations on their lives in the real world. Given the increasing conflation between the online and offline world, contemporary urban ethnographers should pay increased attention to their participants' online presence and interactions. However, methodological training of this sort is still in its infancy stages an…
It’s Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
As the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged populations, including drug dealers, gang members and street hustlers. These individuals increasingly publicize their activities and associations via social media networks. Little is known, however, about the dangers criminal actors face in using social media, and how they manage those risks. Based on interview data and ethnographic obse…
Making Sense of Murder: The Reality versus the Realness of Gang Homicides in Two Contexts
Despite the proliferation of research examining gang violence, little is known about how gang members experience, make sense of, and respond to peer fatalities. Drawing from two ethnographies in the Netherlands and Canada, this paper interrogates how gang members experience their affiliates' murder in different street milieus. We describe how gang members in both studies made sense of and navigated their affiliates' murder(s) by conducting pseudo…
Drawing Boundaries or Drawing Weapons? Neighborhood Master Status as Suppressor of Gang Violence
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People
Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremism, representing a broader trend in Westernized countries for responding to social issues through anti-hate policies. Can these approaches protect unhoused people? Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and observation with 50 unhoused community members in a Canadian city, we outline their experiences with …
I’m Wise to the Game”: How Inner-City Women Experience and Navigate Police Raids
Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto's inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women bel…
Before there was danger but there was rules. And safety in those rules’: Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment On Criminal Structures
Journal Article 'Before There Was Danger But There Was Rules. And Safety in Those Rules': Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment on Criminal Structures Get access Marta-Marika Urbanik, Marta-Marika Urbanik Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara K. Thompson, Sara K. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra M. Bucerius Sandra M. Bucerius Search for other works by…
You have to be grateful that they have eyes watching over us: When Security Guards Protect and Serve People Experiencing Homelessness
Relationships between private security and People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) are largely portrayed in negative, controlling, and punitive terms. Studies have shown that like police, security guards regularly engage in behaviors that impede PEH's access to public spaces and produce harm. By contrast, drawing upon interviews with 50 PEH in a mid-sized Canadian city, our research examining PEH's experiences with security suggests these relation…
They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers
Private security guards are increasingly supplementing public police in the policing of urban parks. In the context of this expansion, little is known about how people who frequent and depend on access to these spaces, such as street-involved people who use drugs, view and experience private security. Drawing upon 30 interviews and ethnographic observations with unhoused, street-involved people who use drugs in a small Canadian city, findings sho…
There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City
Many inner-city neighbourhoods across North America are disproportionately subject to heightened and aggressive policing strategies. Consequently, many inner-city residents have developed strategies to limit their encounters with police. Research examining police–community relationships has traditionally examined how residents perceive and respond to ‘the police’. However, this homogenizes and over-simplifies nuanced processes. Based upon 48 inte…
Wendy Chan and Dorothy Chunn, Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada
A lthough many Canadians may be uncomfortable with discussions about issues pertaining to race and crime, Racialization, Crime, and Criminal Justice In Canada demonstrates that race and racism remain at the forefront of crime as well as criminal justice relations and discourse in Canada. Chan and Chunn provide a compelling critical analysis of the current state of affairs in Canada; the authors interrogate the multiple avenues through which racia…
Before there was danger but there was rules. And safety in those rules’: Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment On Criminal Structures
Journal Article 'Before There Was Danger But There Was Rules. And Safety in Those Rules': Effects of Neighbourhood Redevelopment on Criminal Structures Get access Marta-Marika Urbanik, Marta-Marika Urbanik Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sara K. Thompson, Sara K. Thompson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sandra M. Bucerius Sandra M. Bucerius Search for other works by…
It’s Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
As the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged populations, including drug dealers, gang members and street hustlers. These individuals increasingly publicize their activities and associations via social media networks. Little is known, however, about the dangers criminal actors face in using social media, and how they manage those risks. Based on interview data and ethnographic obse…
Drawing Boundaries or Drawing Weapons? Neighborhood Master Status as Suppressor of Gang Violence
GangstaLife: Fusing Urban Ethnography with Netnography in Gang Studies
Recent research on street-involved populations has documented their online presence and has highlighted the effects of their online presentations on their lives in the real world. Given the increasing conflation between the online and offline world, contemporary urban ethnographers should pay increased attention to their participants' online presence and interactions. However, methodological training of this sort is still in its infancy stages an…
Operational and contextual barriers to accessing supervised consumption services in two Canadian cities
I’m Wise to the Game”: How Inner-City Women Experience and Navigate Police Raids
Despite the plethora of research on inner-city policing, little is known about how women experience and make sense of involuntary police encounters. Based upon interviews with women who had their homes raided by police in Toronto's inner-city, this paper explores how these marginalized women perceive, navigate, and resist normative gender expectations in their interactions with police officers during raids. Our findings demonstrate that women bel…
There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City
Many inner-city neighbourhoods across North America are disproportionately subject to heightened and aggressive policing strategies. Consequently, many inner-city residents have developed strategies to limit their encounters with police. Research examining police–community relationships has traditionally examined how residents perceive and respond to ‘the police’. However, this homogenizes and over-simplifies nuanced processes. Based upon 48 inte…
Making Sense of Murder: The Reality versus the Realness of Gang Homicides in Two Contexts
Despite the proliferation of research examining gang violence, little is known about how gang members experience, make sense of, and respond to peer fatalities. Drawing from two ethnographies in the Netherlands and Canada, this paper interrogates how gang members experience their affiliates' murder in different street milieus. We describe how gang members in both studies made sense of and navigated their affiliates' murder(s) by conducting pseudo…
Experiences with compounding surveillance and social control as a barrier to safe consumption service access
Barriers to accessing supervised consumption services are well documented in the literature. Police and security presence in the areas surrounding these sites are two such barriers. Yet, despite what we know about these autonomous social control actors, less is known about whether/how the convergence of actors within neighborhoods housing supervised consumption sites shapes service access. This paper examines how people who use drugs navigate pol…
It Stays with You for Life”: The Everyday Nature and Impact of Police Violence in Toronto’s Inner-City
In recent years, police violence has amassed notable international attention from the public, practitioners, and academics alike. This paper explores experiences and perceptions of police violence in Canada, documenting the impacts of direct and vicarious experiences of police violence on inner-city residents. The study employed semi-structured interviews with 45 community members across three Toronto inner-city neighbourhoods. Using a general in…
A qualitative comparison of how people who use drugs’ perceptions and experiences of policing affect supervised consumption services access in two cities
A rejoinder to Brooks et al. “Response to operational and contextual barriers to accessing supervised consumption services in two Canadian cities”
It's just not the same”: Exploring PWUD’ perceptions of and experiences with drug policy and SCS services change in a Canadian City
Women in Gang Research: An Overview
This chapter is multipronged, broadly evaluating women in gang ethnography. First, the chapter provides an overview of the women who have produced notable works in this area and documents the contributions of female gang ethnographers across disciplines to the growing field of gang studies. It highlights how female scholars have extended the field, especially pertaining to unmasking the roles of girls and women in gangs, gender theory, feminist a…
They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers
Private security guards are increasingly supplementing public police in the policing of urban parks. In the context of this expansion, little is known about how people who frequent and depend on access to these spaces, such as street-involved people who use drugs, view and experience private security. Drawing upon 30 interviews and ethnographic observations with unhoused, street-involved people who use drugs in a small Canadian city, findings sho…
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People
Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremism, representing a broader trend in Westernized countries for responding to social issues through anti-hate policies. Can these approaches protect unhoused people? Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and observation with 50 unhoused community members in a Canadian city, we outline their experiences with …
They Stole All My Shit”: A Qualitative Exploration of By-Law Practices and People Experiencing Homelessness
Drawing on interviews with 65 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), this article examines the role and impact of municipal by-laws’ daily governance of PEH and their possessions. We argue PEH’s possessions are a site of governance that by-law officers use to exert both punitive control and responsibilization onto PEH’s lives. We show how the daily governance of possessions enhances and reinforces existing …
You have to be grateful that they have eyes watching over us: When Security Guards Protect and Serve People Experiencing Homelessness
Relationships between private security and People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) are largely portrayed in negative, controlling, and punitive terms. Studies have shown that like police, security guards regularly engage in behaviors that impede PEH's access to public spaces and produce harm. By contrast, drawing upon interviews with 50 PEH in a mid-sized Canadian city, our research examining PEH's experiences with security suggests these relation…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (7 works)