Sara K Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 95367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara K Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara K |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9018-2439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘We’re recording you too, bud: ’ Body-Worn Cameras, Citizen Journalism, and the Changing Landscape of Police Visibility
The widespread adoption of body-worn cameras (BWCs) has transformed the landscape of police visibility. While BWCs are commonly understood as technologies for evidence collection and police accountability, less attention has been paid to how police officers themselves understand the technology as a means of responding to citizen journalism. Drawing on interviews with frontline officers from one of Canada's largest municipal police services, this …
‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility
This research examines the evolving complexities in the realm of police visibility with a focus on how frontline police officers experience and respond to the enhanced visibility that their body-worn cameras facilitate. By adding a layer wherein officers can actively participate in shaping the visual narrative of their actions, body-worn cameras challenge and expand earlier frameworks of police visibility. Our findings highlight the double-edged …
National Assimilation and/or Cosmopolitan Transnationalism? Impending Transnationalism among the Upwardly Mobile Children of Refugees
In sociology of migration, assimilation theory anticipates second-generations’ socio-economic mobility into the mainstream. In contrast, the concept of transnationalism predicts second-generations’ simultaneous belonging to the origin and destination countries. We draw on 118 qualitative interviews with second-generation Somali-Canadians whose parents were refugees to assess which of these perspectives best explains our participants’ experiences.…
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence
The first people to suspect or know about someone involved in acts of violent extremism will often be those closest to them: their friends, family and community insiders. They are ideally placed to play particular roles: (a) to notice any changes or early warning signs that someone is considering violent action to harm others, and (b) to influence and facilitate vulnerable individuals to move away from violent extremist involvements. The willingn…
Context of racialized assimilation: A case of second-generation Somali-Canadians
Can second-generation racialized Canadians cross racial and class boundaries into middle-class mainstream society? Currently, neo-assimilation theory anticipates identificational and socioeconomic assimilation into the mainstream, while segmented-assimilation theory argues that racial and economic structures inhibit racialized groups' assimilation. An emerging strand of assimilation theory - racialized incorporation - hypothesizes that, for racia…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada analyses the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, the challenge of Canadian foreign fighters and far-right extremism, key counterterrorism policies and practices, and their consequences for Canadian society.
Transnational Radicalization, Diaspora Groups, and Within-group Sentiment Pools: Young Tamil and Somali Canadians on the LTTE and al Shabaab
In recent years, the Tamil and Somali diasporas have come under intense scrutiny by the media and national security agencies in Canada. This is due to concerns that members of both communities may hold political grievances associated with their respective homelands that could be acted upon by joining or supporting transnational terrorist groups. Drawing on 168 in-depth interviews with youth and young adults in Toronto’s Tamil and Somali diasporas…
Gender identity and integration: Second-generation Somali immigrants navigating gender in Canada
Many right-leaning politicians claim that normative Islamic perspectives on gender are at odds with the Western values and act as barriers to immigrant integration. Our interviews with 256 second-generation Somali-Canadians, however, suggest that gender-egalitarian identities are achieved - they are constructed and deployed by our participants to practice integration and express belonging in Canada. In this study, we move beyond analysis of attai…
They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada
In recent years, urban neighborhoods in many Western nations have undergone neighborhood restructuring initiatives, especially in public housing developments. Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing development, is a neighborhood currently undergoing ‘neighborhood revitalization’ based on the social mix model. One tenet of this model is the idea that original public housing residents are benefiting from interactions with middle cl…
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…
Narratives and Counternarratives: Somali-Canadians on Recruitment as Foreign Fighters to Al-Shabaab
Recently, the Somali diaspora has found itself at the centre of heightened security concerns surrounding the proliferation of international terrorist networks and their recruitment strategies. These concerns have reached new levels since the absorption of al-Shabaab into al-Qaeda in 2012. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 118 members of Canada’s largest Somali community, this article draws upon narrative criminology to reverse th…
Case Study
Most criminological theory and research on the black homicide victimization is grounded in the American context, which raises important generalizability issues given the exceptional level of lethal violence that is used as the standard in this inquiry. This case study examines the social and spatial distribution of black homicide victimization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between 1988 and 2003. Results suggest that, as in American cities, blacks i…
Case Study
In 2011, Georgia and Alabama passed laws that criminalized an immigrant presence, by restricting points of contact between undocumented immigrants and state resources and by heightening the consequences of immigrant encounters with law enforcement. Part of a wider devolution of immigration enforcement from the federal to the state level, legislation in both states reflected the South’s historically complex racial politics and created both extreme…
Identity Style and Spirituality in a Collegiate Context
Though exploration of religion has been considered an important part of identity since Erikson's original work, little research has explored the connection explicitly. This study investigated the relationship between identity and faith development in undergraduates (N = 153) from a private, Catholic university and a public college. Participants completed measures of identity style, identity distress, spiritual exploration (willingness to question…
Narratives and Counternarratives: Somali-Canadians on Recruitment as Foreign Fighters to Al-Shabaab
Recently, the Somali diaspora has found itself at the centre of heightened security concerns surrounding the proliferation of international terrorist networks and their recruitment strategies. These concerns have reached new levels since the absorption of al-Shabaab into al-Qaeda in 2012. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 118 members of Canada’s largest Somali community, this article draws upon narrative criminology to reverse th…
Gender identity and integration: Second-generation Somali immigrants navigating gender in Canada
Many right-leaning politicians claim that normative Islamic perspectives on gender are at odds with the Western values and act as barriers to immigrant integration. Our interviews with 256 second-generation Somali-Canadians, however, suggest that gender-egalitarian identities are achieved - they are constructed and deployed by our participants to practice integration and express belonging in Canada. In this study, we move beyond analysis of attai…
They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada
In recent years, urban neighborhoods in many Western nations have undergone neighborhood restructuring initiatives, especially in public housing developments. Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing development, is a neighborhood currently undergoing ‘neighborhood revitalization’ based on the social mix model. One tenet of this model is the idea that original public housing residents are benefiting from interactions with middle cl…
Context of racialized assimilation: A case of second-generation Somali-Canadians
Can second-generation racialized Canadians cross racial and class boundaries into middle-class mainstream society? Currently, neo-assimilation theory anticipates identificational and socioeconomic assimilation into the mainstream, while segmented-assimilation theory argues that racial and economic structures inhibit racialized groups' assimilation. An emerging strand of assimilation theory - racialized incorporation - hypothesizes that, for racia…
Transnational Radicalization, Diaspora Groups, and Within-group Sentiment Pools: Young Tamil and Somali Canadians on the LTTE and al Shabaab
In recent years, the Tamil and Somali diasporas have come under intense scrutiny by the media and national security agencies in Canada. This is due to concerns that members of both communities may hold political grievances associated with their respective homelands that could be acted upon by joining or supporting transnational terrorist groups. Drawing on 168 in-depth interviews with youth and young adults in Toronto’s Tamil and Somali diasporas…
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…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
Identity Style and Spirituality in a Collegiate Context
Though exploration of religion has been considered an important part of identity since Erikson's original work, little research has explored the connection explicitly. This study investigated the relationship between identity and faith development in undergraduates (N = 153) from a private, Catholic university and a public college. Participants completed measures of identity style, identity distress, spiritual exploration (willingness to question…
Case Study
Most criminological theory and research on the black homicide victimization is grounded in the American context, which raises important generalizability issues given the exceptional level of lethal violence that is used as the standard in this inquiry. This case study examines the social and spatial distribution of black homicide victimization in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between 1988 and 2003. Results suggest that, as in American cities, blacks i…
Case Study
In 2011, Georgia and Alabama passed laws that criminalized an immigrant presence, by restricting points of contact between undocumented immigrants and state resources and by heightening the consequences of immigrant encounters with law enforcement. Part of a wider devolution of immigration enforcement from the federal to the state level, legislation in both states reflected the South’s historically complex racial politics and created both extreme…
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…
Narratives and Counternarratives: Somali-Canadians on Recruitment as Foreign Fighters to Al-Shabaab
Recently, the Somali diaspora has found itself at the centre of heightened security concerns surrounding the proliferation of international terrorist networks and their recruitment strategies. These concerns have reached new levels since the absorption of al-Shabaab into al-Qaeda in 2012. Based on a qualitative analysis of interviews with 118 members of Canada’s largest Somali community, this article draws upon narrative criminology to reverse th…
They're Colonizing My Neighborhood”: (Perceptions of) Social Mix in Canada
In recent years, urban neighborhoods in many Western nations have undergone neighborhood restructuring initiatives, especially in public housing developments. Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing development, is a neighborhood currently undergoing ‘neighborhood revitalization’ based on the social mix model. One tenet of this model is the idea that original public housing residents are benefiting from interactions with middle cl…
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Canada analyses the nature and scope of the terrorist threat, the challenge of Canadian foreign fighters and far-right extremism, key counterterrorism policies and practices, and their consequences for Canadian society.
Transnational Radicalization, Diaspora Groups, and Within-group Sentiment Pools: Young Tamil and Somali Canadians on the LTTE and al Shabaab
In recent years, the Tamil and Somali diasporas have come under intense scrutiny by the media and national security agencies in Canada. This is due to concerns that members of both communities may hold political grievances associated with their respective homelands that could be acted upon by joining or supporting transnational terrorist groups. Drawing on 168 in-depth interviews with youth and young adults in Toronto’s Tamil and Somali diasporas…
Gender identity and integration: Second-generation Somali immigrants navigating gender in Canada
Many right-leaning politicians claim that normative Islamic perspectives on gender are at odds with the Western values and act as barriers to immigrant integration. Our interviews with 256 second-generation Somali-Canadians, however, suggest that gender-egalitarian identities are achieved - they are constructed and deployed by our participants to practice integration and express belonging in Canada. In this study, we move beyond analysis of attai…
Collective Memory and Collective Forgetting: A Comparative Analysis of Second-Generation Somali and Tamil Immigrants and Their Stance on Homeland Politics and Conflict
Context of racialized assimilation: A case of second-generation Somali-Canadians
Can second-generation racialized Canadians cross racial and class boundaries into middle-class mainstream society? Currently, neo-assimilation theory anticipates identificational and socioeconomic assimilation into the mainstream, while segmented-assimilation theory argues that racial and economic structures inhibit racialized groups' assimilation. An emerging strand of assimilation theory - racialized incorporation - hypothesizes that, for racia…
National Assimilation and/or Cosmopolitan Transnationalism? Impending Transnationalism among the Upwardly Mobile Children of Refugees
In sociology of migration, assimilation theory anticipates second-generations’ socio-economic mobility into the mainstream. In contrast, the concept of transnationalism predicts second-generations’ simultaneous belonging to the origin and destination countries. We draw on 118 qualitative interviews with second-generation Somali-Canadians whose parents were refugees to assess which of these perspectives best explains our participants’ experiences.…
Needs, Rights and Systems: Increasing Canadian Intimate Bystander Reporting on Radicalizing to Violence
The first people to suspect or know about someone involved in acts of violent extremism will often be those closest to them: their friends, family and community insiders. They are ideally placed to play particular roles: (a) to notice any changes or early warning signs that someone is considering violent action to harm others, and (b) to influence and facilitate vulnerable individuals to move away from violent extremist involvements. The willingn…
‘We’re recording you too, bud: ’ Body-Worn Cameras, Citizen Journalism, and the Changing Landscape of Police Visibility
The widespread adoption of body-worn cameras (BWCs) has transformed the landscape of police visibility. While BWCs are commonly understood as technologies for evidence collection and police accountability, less attention has been paid to how police officers themselves understand the technology as a means of responding to citizen journalism. Drawing on interviews with frontline officers from one of Canada's largest municipal police services, this …
‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility
This research examines the evolving complexities in the realm of police visibility with a focus on how frontline police officers experience and respond to the enhanced visibility that their body-worn cameras facilitate. By adding a layer wherein officers can actively participate in shaping the visual narrative of their actions, body-worn cameras challenge and expand earlier frameworks of police visibility. Our findings highlight the double-edged …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Somali (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works)