Dale Ballucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale Ballucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballucci |
| SIGNATURE | BALLUCCI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3939-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No Matter Your Age, “It’s Your Life, It’s Your Choice”: Compulsory Persuasion and Informal Rehabilitative Support in Youth and Adult Intensive Supervision Programs
Although existing literature identifies that public protection and risk reduction are the primary goals of intensive supervision programs (ISP), little is known about how or whether rehabilitation of high-risk offenders is prioritized outside of enforcing court-mandated conditions. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus groups within two Canadian metropolitan ISPs, our study explores how rehabilitative support is offered to youth …
(Dis)Guised Punishment: Examining the Consequences of Post-Release Management Programs
This paper examines the consequences of post-release management programs, arguing that these initiatives extend penal power beyond formal sentencing through mechanisms such as surveillance, discretionary policing, and information sharing. While prolific offender programs are framed as risk-management strategies rather than punishment, they operate in ways that mirror carceral control, restricting autonomy and increasing individuals’ susceptibilit…
Producing criminality: The expanding power of crime analysts
Expanding Mechanisms of Governance: Uncertainty and Risk in Police Decision-Making Strategies in the Pursuit of Specialized Peace Bonds
This study examines police officers’ decision-making practices through analyzing how they determine which offenders are candidates for an 810, or peace bond. This legal tool allows police officers to petition the courts for continued surveillance and conditions for offenders postrelease. Little, however, is offered in terms of assessment guidelines on how to make such determinations. As a result, police officers discretionary behaviors and additi…
Digital media ‘changes the game’: Investigating digital affordances impacts on sex crime and policing in the 21st century
With society becoming increasingly digital, new opportunities are afforded to potential offenders to weaponize digital features and affordances to carry out their crimes. As a result, concerns persist over online forms of crime, particularly cybercrime involving sexual exploitation, and what can be done about them. Drawing on interview and focus group data collected from 70 sex crime investigators from police service organizations across Canada, …
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making
Our study examines how factors associated with normative conceptions of childhood shape Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicators’ interpretations of evidence and justifications for decisions. We examine Canadian case file transcripts to highlight the factors that shape IRB members’ decisions to accept or reject children’s claims. Through analyzing IRB members’ language, discourses, and rationales for their decisions, we show that their…
Specialized knowledge: Understanding crime analyst’s roles and responsibilities and the impact of their work
Using qualitative interview data, this article examines the role of crime analysts in producing knowledge, as well as the challenges they face. Through the collection and organization of data outlining pertinent information about specific districts, analysts aid in the implementation of policing practices. As such, analysts regard themselves as possessing a specialized form of knowledge, which they incorporate and draw on in the outputs they prod…
Re-Conceptualizing Success: Investigating Specialized Units Responses to the Sexual Trafficking of Female Victim-Survivors
This paper explores police officers’ experiences working in a specialized human trafficking unit in Canada to identify challenges, strategies, and responses to working with victim-survivors. Analyzing data from semi-structured interviews, we find that officers deploy victim-centered responses reflecting procedural justice outcomes due to their awareness that the criminal justice process often re-victimizes. Officers’ deployment of procedural just…
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: Police practices in high-risk offender management programs
Risk discourse pervades criminal justice institutions. One such example is high-risk offender management programmes. Officers who work in these programmes routinely carry out an array of policing practices to manage high-risk individuals. To reduce risks of recidivism and facilitate social reintegration, these practices range from traditional law enforcement tactics of monitoring and surveilling, to collaborating with agencies and organisations o…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses: An Intersectional Analysis of Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy for Children
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units
Drawing from focus groups and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines decision-making practices and monitoring techniques of Canadian Intensive Supervision Units (ISUs) managing high-risk individuals in the community. We argue that ISU subjects are hyper-individualized through their unique conditions of release, contesting notions that actuarial risk assessments have eclipsed individual understandings of dangerousness in risk, correctiona…
I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence
Constructing childhood at the boundaries of the nation: Chinese adoptee and refugee cases in Canada
This article analyzes and compares two instances of national border crossing that involve decisions about children from China: children whose Canadian relatives have applied to adopt them, and unaccompanied children who seek refugee status. Discourse analysis of interviews, hearings, and official documents in the two cases demonstrates how the 'innocence' and 'best interests' of children are produced through three specific forms of knowledge: age…
Risk in Action: The Practical Effects of the Youth Management Assessment
This article illustrates the importance of empirical investigations that reveal `risk in action'. Using interviews, operation manuals and correctional policies, I examine the governance of female young offenders at `Youth House' (an open custody facility in Canada). This article focuses on the ways in which risk discourses and practices shape the governance process. Particular attention is paid to the discretionary power of front-line workers and…
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines (review)
Reviewed by: Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines Dale Ballucci Hillel Goelman, Sheila K. Marshall, and Sally Ross , eds., Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Academic interest on the notion of childhood has grown in recent years. Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives of the C…
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines
Risk in Action: The Practical Effects of the Youth Management Assessment
This article illustrates the importance of empirical investigations that reveal `risk in action'. Using interviews, operation manuals and correctional policies, I examine the governance of female young offenders at `Youth House' (an open custody facility in Canada). This article focuses on the ways in which risk discourses and practices shape the governance process. Particular attention is paid to the discretionary power of front-line workers and…
Constructing childhood at the boundaries of the nation: Chinese adoptee and refugee cases in Canada
This article analyzes and compares two instances of national border crossing that involve decisions about children from China: children whose Canadian relatives have applied to adopt them, and unaccompanied children who seek refugee status. Discourse analysis of interviews, hearings, and official documents in the two cases demonstrates how the 'innocence' and 'best interests' of children are produced through three specific forms of knowledge: age…
Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units
Drawing from focus groups and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines decision-making practices and monitoring techniques of Canadian Intensive Supervision Units (ISUs) managing high-risk individuals in the community. We argue that ISU subjects are hyper-individualized through their unique conditions of release, contesting notions that actuarial risk assessments have eclipsed individual understandings of dangerousness in risk, correctiona…
Specialized knowledge: Understanding crime analyst’s roles and responsibilities and the impact of their work
Using qualitative interview data, this article examines the role of crime analysts in producing knowledge, as well as the challenges they face. Through the collection and organization of data outlining pertinent information about specific districts, analysts aid in the implementation of policing practices. As such, analysts regard themselves as possessing a specialized form of knowledge, which they incorporate and draw on in the outputs they prod…
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: Police practices in high-risk offender management programs
Risk discourse pervades criminal justice institutions. One such example is high-risk offender management programmes. Officers who work in these programmes routinely carry out an array of policing practices to manage high-risk individuals. To reduce risks of recidivism and facilitate social reintegration, these practices range from traditional law enforcement tactics of monitoring and surveilling, to collaborating with agencies and organisations o…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses: An Intersectional Analysis of Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy for Children
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines (review)
Reviewed by: Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines Dale Ballucci Hillel Goelman, Sheila K. Marshall, and Sally Ross , eds., Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Academic interest on the notion of childhood has grown in recent years. Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives of the C…
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child across Time, Space, and Disciplines
Risk in Action: The Practical Effects of the Youth Management Assessment
This article illustrates the importance of empirical investigations that reveal `risk in action'. Using interviews, operation manuals and correctional policies, I examine the governance of female young offenders at `Youth House' (an open custody facility in Canada). This article focuses on the ways in which risk discourses and practices shape the governance process. Particular attention is paid to the discretionary power of front-line workers and…
Constructing childhood at the boundaries of the nation: Chinese adoptee and refugee cases in Canada
This article analyzes and compares two instances of national border crossing that involve decisions about children from China: children whose Canadian relatives have applied to adopt them, and unaccompanied children who seek refugee status. Discourse analysis of interviews, hearings, and official documents in the two cases demonstrates how the 'innocence' and 'best interests' of children are produced through three specific forms of knowledge: age…
I Think It’s Re-Victimizing Victims Almost Every Time: Police Perceptions of Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence
Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units
Drawing from focus groups and semi-structured interviews, this paper examines decision-making practices and monitoring techniques of Canadian Intensive Supervision Units (ISUs) managing high-risk individuals in the community. We argue that ISU subjects are hyper-individualized through their unique conditions of release, contesting notions that actuarial risk assessments have eclipsed individual understandings of dangerousness in risk, correctiona…
Specialized knowledge: Understanding crime analyst’s roles and responsibilities and the impact of their work
Using qualitative interview data, this article examines the role of crime analysts in producing knowledge, as well as the challenges they face. Through the collection and organization of data outlining pertinent information about specific districts, analysts aid in the implementation of policing practices. As such, analysts regard themselves as possessing a specialized form of knowledge, which they incorporate and draw on in the outputs they prod…
Re-Conceptualizing Success: Investigating Specialized Units Responses to the Sexual Trafficking of Female Victim-Survivors
This paper explores police officers’ experiences working in a specialized human trafficking unit in Canada to identify challenges, strategies, and responses to working with victim-survivors. Analyzing data from semi-structured interviews, we find that officers deploy victim-centered responses reflecting procedural justice outcomes due to their awareness that the criminal justice process often re-victimizes. Officers’ deployment of procedural just…
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: Police practices in high-risk offender management programs
Risk discourse pervades criminal justice institutions. One such example is high-risk offender management programmes. Officers who work in these programmes routinely carry out an array of policing practices to manage high-risk individuals. To reduce risks of recidivism and facilitate social reintegration, these practices range from traditional law enforcement tactics of monitoring and surveilling, to collaborating with agencies and organisations o…
The Social Construction of Age and ‘Best Interests’ Discourses: An Intersectional Analysis of Canadian Immigration and Refugee Policy for Children
Canada has received worldwide recognition for its implementation of the Canada Chairperson’s Guideline 3: Child Refugee Claimants. This informal immigration rights policy, statutorily authorized by the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, instructs immigration officials to provide special considerations to accompanied and unaccompanied child migrants. Our analysis examines the language of Guideline 3 to understand how the social construction o…
Producing criminality: The expanding power of crime analysts
Expanding Mechanisms of Governance: Uncertainty and Risk in Police Decision-Making Strategies in the Pursuit of Specialized Peace Bonds
This study examines police officers’ decision-making practices through analyzing how they determine which offenders are candidates for an 810, or peace bond. This legal tool allows police officers to petition the courts for continued surveillance and conditions for offenders postrelease. Little, however, is offered in terms of assessment guidelines on how to make such determinations. As a result, police officers discretionary behaviors and additi…
Digital media ‘changes the game’: Investigating digital affordances impacts on sex crime and policing in the 21st century
With society becoming increasingly digital, new opportunities are afforded to potential offenders to weaponize digital features and affordances to carry out their crimes. As a result, concerns persist over online forms of crime, particularly cybercrime involving sexual exploitation, and what can be done about them. Drawing on interview and focus group data collected from 70 sex crime investigators from police service organizations across Canada, …
(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making
Our study examines how factors associated with normative conceptions of childhood shape Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicators’ interpretations of evidence and justifications for decisions. We examine Canadian case file transcripts to highlight the factors that shape IRB members’ decisions to accept or reject children’s claims. Through analyzing IRB members’ language, discourses, and rationales for their decisions, we show that their…
(Dis)Guised Punishment: Examining the Consequences of Post-Release Management Programs
This paper examines the consequences of post-release management programs, arguing that these initiatives extend penal power beyond formal sentencing through mechanisms such as surveillance, discretionary policing, and information sharing. While prolific offender programs are framed as risk-management strategies rather than punishment, they operate in ways that mirror carceral control, restricting autonomy and increasing individuals’ susceptibilit…
No Matter Your Age, “It’s Your Life, It’s Your Choice”: Compulsory Persuasion and Informal Rehabilitative Support in Youth and Adult Intensive Supervision Programs
Although existing literature identifies that public protection and risk reduction are the primary goals of intensive supervision programs (ISP), little is known about how or whether rehabilitation of high-risk offenders is prioritized outside of enforcing court-mandated conditions. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews and focus groups within two Canadian metropolitan ISPs, our study explores how rehabilitative support is offered to youth …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (6 works)