Randy K Lippert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 161877 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Randy K Lippert |
| PRENOMES | Randy K |
| SOBRENOME | Lippert |
| ASSINATURA | LIPPERT R K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8688-6874 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 68 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 361 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Moving through Toronto’s Path
This paper explores Toronto’s urban PATH, a 30 km network of underground pedestrian tunnels and elevated walkways that connect shopping areas, residential towers, mass transit and downtown destinations. Both as a case and heuristic, this paper situates Toronto’s PATH as an assemblage of private urban governance forms, exploring emergent and evolving constellations of power and responsibility for governing city space that defy easy distinctions of…
The new private urban governance
Despite the growth, prevalence and influence of private urban governance, scholarship that explores the intimate workings of these manifold and mutating forms remains limited. While these private ventures carry forward elements from the past, the landscape of urban governance has nonetheless undergone profound transformation. Over the past few decades, the global expansion and influence of private governing ventures have reshaped how cities are m…
Granting Inequities
This paper explores inequities in the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) grant amounts awarded to successful applicants in Canada's universities. Specifically, the study seeks to discern whether ethnicity and gender matter for amounts of SSHRCC's award decisions using compiled SSHRCC data and names of successful grant applicants to generate a large sample from 1998 to 2018. Although the importance of ethnicity along…
Rhetoric and reality of “turnover”
Of the various ways developers have created and exploited the high demand for condominium living, there is little empirical research identifying and analyzing the growing influence of condominium developers over condominium governance and living as a means to increase profit margins. Drawing from survey and interviews with condominium owners, board members, and industry representatives in Ontario and New York state, this paper explores how develo…
Condominium self-governance? Issues, external interests, and the limits of statutory reform
Condominiums are assumed in enabling statutes, related regulations, and statutory reforms to resemble ‘self-governing communities’ of owners whom collectively undertake numerous governance responsibilities to manage and sustain their buildings and living arrangements. Drawing from intensive interviews with condo owners and condo industry representatives in Ontario and New York State and a large qualitative survey of condo owners from Ontario, we …
Governing Through Human Rights in Counter-terrorism
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Governing Through Human Rights and Critical Criminology
A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers
Policing and security provision are subjects central to criminology.Yet there are newer and neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised.By examining the uuork of community safety officers, ambassador patrols, conservation officers, and private police foundations, uuho operate on and are animated by a frontier, this book reveals uuhy criminological inquiry must reach beyond traditional conceptual and methodological boundaries in the 21st cent…
Investigating accountability of public police in the private employment realm
Governing Practices
Police foundation governance and accountability
Police foundations are new private organizations used by public police services to raise corporate monies in North America. This article examines problems of governance and accountability arising in relation to police foundations and police services. Drawing from interviews, freedom of information requests and records from city archives, we analyze interlocks between corporations and police foundations via board membership. Because of the influen…
Managing Risk and Preempting Immorality in Private Employment of Public Police
This article examines risk management and moral regulation of private employment of public police (or PEPP). Drawing on a study of 104 North American police departments and analysis of interviews with police and private employers, police policies and procedures, and police assignment logs, we first identify PEPP contexts. We then argue that risk management is as much of as by public police officers. This risk management is sometimes preempted by …
The Police Foundation’s Rise
A new kind of organization has emerged in public policing across the United States and Canada: the ‘police foundation’. The foundation’s private, nonprofit legal status allows it to engage in private fundraising activities that police, as public bodies, cannot. In many municipalities, police foundations raise funds directed toward police procurement practices and operations. We discuss reasons for and detail the rise and growth of these foundatio…
Online Readers’ Comments as Popular Texts
Background Despite paid-duty policing and associated public opinions being an increasingly controversial topic in Canadian news media, there has been limited research about them.Analysis This article combines discourse and content analyses to examine the public opinions towards paid-duty policing in Canada expressed in the online readers’ comment sections of news articles. Conceptualizing comments as popular texts, the article discerns several th…
Funnelling through foundations and crime stoppers
Public police require a reliable supply of resources to operate effectively, and police increasingly seek resources from private organisations and individuals. Since police departments are public bodies, they encounter boundaries in doing so. The key challenge for public police is how to access private resources for initiatives while seeming to avoid real or alleged influence from private entities providing them. This article examines policing ac…
Brokering Access Beyond the Border and in the Wild
Contributing to literature on jurisdictional variation in freedom of information (FOI) law and policy, we draw from accounts of experiences of FOI requests submitted to police agencies in nine Canadian provinces and ten US states. We conceptualize these experiences using notions of “brokering access,” “law in the wild,” and “feral law.” Our findings demonstrate key differences in how public police agencies store, prepare, and disclose information…
National Security, Surveillance and Terror
Debate Introduction
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Police-sponsorship networks
This article examines relational ties between private sponsors and public police departments based on sponsorship of Canadian and international policing conferences and galas. Using network analysis and descriptive statistics, we investigate ties among 375 sponsors and 16 law enforcement conferences and galas held in 2015 in Canada, the US, and the UK. Of 16 police conferences and galas, 13 are connected via common sponsors. We discern trends in …
Legal Knowledges and Surveillance in the Condo World
This article explores legal knowledges and surveillance in residential condominiums, a form of property ownership and collective governing arrangement that is proliferating globally. Drawing from extensive empirical qualitative study of this realm in Toronto, Canada and New York, USA, including interviews with condo board members, owners and industry representatives, we map various legal knowledges and forms of surveillance and how these relate t…
Conquering condos from within
The inner governance of condominiums profoundly matters for understanding urban governance and life but has so far been neglected in urban studies. This article examines its relation to development and suggests how several overlooked institutional processes, forms of knowledge and corresponding agents render the condominium possible through relations of governance. These multiple, reinforcing institutional elements – juridification, financialisat…
Attaching Hollywood to a Surveillant Assemblage
This article examines video surveillance images in Hollywood film. It moves beyond previous accounts of video surveillance in relation to film by theoretically situating the use of these surveillance images in a broader “surveillant assemblage”. To this end, scenes from a sample of thirty-five (35) films of several genres are examined to discern dominant discourses and how they lend themselves to normalization of video surveillance. Four discours…
Thinking about Law and Surveillance
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The difference homeland security makes
We explore what we refer to as municipal corporate security (MCS) units, a new form of security organization that differs significantly from public police and private contract security. Based on 36 interviews with MCS managers in 16 cities across Canada and in the United States, we examine how in-house security practices developed in private corporations are being transferred to municipal governments. We draw from the sociology of security govern…
Ford first? Corporate security and the US Department of War's Plant Protection Service's interior organization unit 1917–1918
The Ford Motor Company's corporate security unit is widely considered to be the prototype of in-house corporate security. Drawing on archival research, we demonstrate that beginning in 1917 and continuing through the early 1920s the US Department of War's Plant Protection Service and their interior organization units represent an early example of corporate security emanating from the public sector. The existence and character of this unit challen…
Governing Refugees
Studies of national policy domains informed by social theory have usually adopted state-centered approaches. An alternative to such approaches is one inspired by Michel Foucault's later writings on governmentality, which he describes as the ensemble formed by the institutions, procedures, analyses, and reflections, the calculations and tactics that allow the exercise of this very specific albeit complex form of power.1 Developed in response to ne…
Security Assemblages
Security has become a more intense focus of public debate and concern following the events of September 11, 2001. In North America, especially, much media and political discourse has centered on the private security workforce charged with the provision of airport security services and, specifically, the quality of service it provides. In response, it is widely claimed that a (1) is occurring in the character of security governance and that we are…
Signs of the Surveillant Assemblage
Signage in urban ‘open-street’ CCTV arrangements is explored in relation to the strategies and forms of law brought to bear upon it. In the context of privacy regulation, CCTV signage’s content reflects deterrence strategies and political subjectification consistent with liberal governmentality. CCTV signage is evinced to be both an agent and target of privacy and other forms of law and is therefore shaped and brought into being by complex webs o…
Spatial Regulation, Dispersal, and the Aesthetics of the City
In this article, we examine the spatial regulation of homeless people by National Capital Commission (NCC) conservation officers in Canada's capital city, Ottawa. We explore NCC officer practices by analyzing occurrence reports obtained through access to information (ATI) requests and interview transcripts. We contend that policing of NCC parks is organized according to a logic of dispersal. Dispersal policing aims to preserve an aesthetic for pu…
Urban Revitalization, Security, and Knowledge Transfer
Cet article analyse le projet de revitalisation urbaine d'un centre-ville canadien et le problème que posait la mise en lumière d'aspects négligés de relance urbaine, de sécurité publique et de transfert de connaissances. L'utilisation des propriétés du centre-ville de Windsor a peu à peu cédé aux forces du marché et le quartier a connu une prolifération de bars pour jeunes. Le résultat en était un problème de sécurité publique à connotation mora…
Rationalities and refugee resettlement
Through an analysis of interviews with authorities and programmatic statements, changes in Canadian refugee resettlement since the 1970s are examined. The prevalence of community, the dominance of the partnership as a form of association, and movement of responsibility for resettlin refugees out of the State, in a variety of ways, is consistent with a shift to advanced liberalism. The character of teh practices of mostly Christian organizations, …
Advancing governmentality studies
Criminology has been significantly influenced by governmentality studies and the social constructionist perspective on social problems. Despite emerging in distinctive academic networks, this article elaborates how both programmes similarly focus on the simultaneous governance and constitution of problematized—often moralized or criminalized—conduct; imagine plurality, temporality and continuous failure of their subject matters; and presume langu…
Security Intelligence Networks and the Transformation of Contract Private Security
This article explores the transformation of contract private security and security intelligence networks by drawing on results of a 2003 survey of contract security firms in Ontario, Canada. Comparing these results with a 1976 survey by Shearing et al. reveals a dramatic increase in the intelligence gathering and sharing capacities of contract security firms. This increased capacity can be put to various uses. The results of the 2003 survey permi…
Clean and safe’ passage
This paper interrogates the complex role of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in securing and shaping conduct in public retail and ‘entertainment’ spaces in Canadian cities. Adopting a Foucault-inspired sociology of governance perspective, this paper uncovers key features of the role of BIDs therein and casts doubt upon assumptions evident in previous research, including in relation to urban neo-liberalism. BIDs seek to exclude obstacles, whi…
Brokering Access Beyond the Border and in the Wild
Contributing to literature on jurisdictional variation in freedom of information (FOI) law and policy, we draw from accounts of experiences of FOI requests submitted to police agencies in nine Canadian provinces and ten US states. We conceptualize these experiences using notions of “brokering access,” “law in the wild,” and “feral law.” Our findings demonstrate key differences in how public police agencies store, prepare, and disclose information…
Conquering condos from within
The inner governance of condominiums profoundly matters for understanding urban governance and life but has so far been neglected in urban studies. This article examines its relation to development and suggests how several overlooked institutional processes, forms of knowledge and corresponding agents render the condominium possible through relations of governance. These multiple, reinforcing institutional elements – juridification, financialisat…
Governing Condominiums and Renters with Legal Knowledge Flows and External Institutions
This article explores the intertwined roles of legal knowledge and external institutions in condominium governance using a sociology of governance framework. Condominium legislation spread in North America in the 1960s. By the 1970s, renters had become the condominium's primary “other.” The article elaborates legal governance and strategies of property management and private insurance that converge on renters in condominiums. Through this analysi…
Downtown ambassadors, police relations and ‘clean and safe’ security
This article investigates uniformed patrols called 'ambassadors' that are increasingly providing security in the cores of western cities. An analysis of texts and interviews with key institutional actors in three cities reveals ambassador operations and practices are shaped and made possible by relations with police that entail exchanging knowledge for limited training and tacit tolerance. Ambassadors are imagined remaining distant from police an…
Sanctuary Practices, Rationalities, and Sovereignties
All human behavior is scheduled and programmed through rationality. There is a logic of institutions and in behavior and in political relations. --Michel Foucault These people are not cases to us. They are human beings with names and faces. --Southern Ontario Sanctuary Coalition Placing on display a masked and hooded Guatemalan migrant threatened with immediate deportation by immigration officials at a televised press conference in January 1984, …
Policing Property and Moral Risk Through Promotions, Anonymization and Rewards
This article explores promotions, anonymity and rewards as techniques of governance in Canadian Crime Stoppers (CS) programmes by analysing texts and personal interviews. The function of CS Crime of the Week advertisements is found to be more a practical effort to reduce loss along property lines through offering rewards and anonymity and less a tactical effort to solve mostly violent crimes or a symbolic endeavour consistent with the promotion o…
Mundane and mutant devices of power
From the inception in the early 1980s of the Foucauldian-influenced corpus of work known as ‘governmentality studies’, theorists sought to encourage the empirical study of rationalities and technologies of government as elements that are mutually dependent but not related in a one-to-one fashion. Yet in the years since then, rationalities have received attention from analysts to the relative neglect of technologies. This article undertakes an ana…
Neo‐Liberalism, Police, and the Governance of Little Urban Things
This article seeks to refine understandings of the governmental logics that comprise and shape urban governance. Drawing on research using ethnographic methods that explore the business improvement district (BID) and the condominium corporation (condo) it is argued that exclusive focus on urban neo-liberalism neglects an urban ”police.” This latter logic is most famously remarked upon in Michel Foucault’s writings as targeting “little things” in …
Ambassadors, Business Improvement District Governance and Knowledge of the Urban
This article explores practices of uniformed, mobile ‘hospitality’ teams called ambassadors in Canadian downtown cores through document analysis and in-depth interviews with ambassadors, police and business improvement district (BID) personnel. The study reveals how ambassadors conduct surveillance and produce knowledge to remake downtowns for a consumption-oriented order, the institutions to which knowledge is transferred and for what purposes. …
Seeing private security like a state
Based on a systematic and detailed statutory analysis of 58 jurisdictions in Canada and the United States, this article constructs a modal typology of state regulation of contract private security. State regulation of private security has been neglected despite the fact it has grown across North American jurisdictions in the past two decades. Moving beyond rudimentary regulatory models and focusing on the contract security sector exclusively, fiv…
The Construction of Satanism as a Social Problem in Canada
This paper examines the problem of Satanism using a social constructionist framework. Seventy-five Canadian news articles froml980-1989 were examined and telephone interviews carried out to obtain a picture of how the problem is emerging, the groups involved, and the claims being made. An examination of the use of rhetoric in claims is undertaken. The role of the news media and American experts in promoting the problem is then explored. The theme…
Condominium self-governance? Issues, external interests, and the limits of statutory reform
Condominiums are assumed in enabling statutes, related regulations, and statutory reforms to resemble ‘self-governing communities’ of owners whom collectively undertake numerous governance responsibilities to manage and sustain their buildings and living arrangements. Drawing from intensive interviews with condo owners and condo industry representatives in Ontario and New York State and a large qualitative survey of condo owners from Ontario, we …
Taking Exception
The concept of the exception has garnered increasing notice from scholars, where it has been used to denote the outer limits, and yet most absolute embodiment, of sovereign rule. However, the concept and its relevance to law and governance in specific contexts remain underdeveloped. Drawing on detailed studies of two domains – financial and urban governance – where the importance of the exception is evident yet unrecognized, we argue that this co…
After the “quiet revolution”
This article explores private security self‐regulation and client‐centredness by comparing the results of two surveys of contract security agencies in Ontario, Canada—one by and one by the authors in 2003. Comparative analysis reveals that the perceived adequacy of existing state regulation has increased while the adequacy of enforcement has decreased despite unchanged state regulation. There have been changes in the type of guard‐training agenci…
Governing Through Privacy
In this article, we examine the production of privacy knowledge and uses of privacy law in relation to liberal governmentality. Understanding liberal governmentality remains critical insofar as authoritarian practices and liberalism are intertwined. We argue the birth of privacy studies and the rise of the notion of ‘privacy by design’ demonstrate a coupling of security and privacy and the embedding of privacy protocol in surveillance technologie…
Urban Governance and Legality from Below
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The Construction of Satanism as a Social Problem in Canada
This paper examines the problem of Satanism using a social constructionist framework. Seventy-five Canadian news articles froml980-1989 were examined and telephone interviews carried out to obtain a picture of how the problem is emerging, the groups involved, and the claims being made. An examination of the use of rhetoric in claims is undertaken. The role of the news media and American experts in promoting the problem is then explored. The theme…
Reply to Tucker
Canadian Refugee Determination and Advanced Liberal Government
Significant changes in the refugee determination domain during the 1980s are made intelligible by deploying the concepts of programme, rationality, and technology drawn from the recent governmentality literature. Following a crisis of governability in the mid-1980s, refugee determination continued to move farther from the reach of political authorities. By 1989 it was reassembled in a manner involving a greater reliance on law, on the regular pro…
Rationalities and refugee resettlement
Through an analysis of interviews with authorities and programmatic statements, changes in Canadian refugee resettlement since the 1970s are examined. The prevalence of community, the dominance of the partnership as a form of association, and movement of responsibility for resettlin refugees out of the State, in a variety of ways, is consistent with a shift to advanced liberalism. The character of teh practices of mostly Christian organizations, …
Governing Refugees
Studies of national policy domains informed by social theory have usually adopted state-centered approaches. An alternative to such approaches is one inspired by Michel Foucault's later writings on governmentality, which he describes as the ensemble formed by the institutions, procedures, analyses, and reflections, the calculations and tactics that allow the exercise of this very specific albeit complex form of power.1 Developed in response to ne…
Policing Property and Moral Risk Through Promotions, Anonymization and Rewards
This article explores promotions, anonymity and rewards as techniques of governance in Canadian Crime Stoppers (CS) programmes by analysing texts and personal interviews. The function of CS Crime of the Week advertisements is found to be more a practical effort to reduce loss along property lines through offering rewards and anonymity and less a tactical effort to solve mostly violent crimes or a symbolic endeavour consistent with the promotion o…
Security Assemblages
Security has become a more intense focus of public debate and concern following the events of September 11, 2001. In North America, especially, much media and political discourse has centered on the private security workforce charged with the provision of airport security services and, specifically, the quality of service it provides. In response, it is widely claimed that a (1) is occurring in the character of security governance and that we are…
After the “quiet revolution”
This article explores private security self‐regulation and client‐centredness by comparing the results of two surveys of contract security agencies in Ontario, Canada—one by and one by the authors in 2003. Comparative analysis reveals that the perceived adequacy of existing state regulation has increased while the adequacy of enforcement has decreased despite unchanged state regulation. There have been changes in the type of guard‐training agenci…
Sanctuary Practices, Rationalities, and Sovereignties
All human behavior is scheduled and programmed through rationality. There is a logic of institutions and in behavior and in political relations. --Michel Foucault These people are not cases to us. They are human beings with names and faces. --Southern Ontario Sanctuary Coalition Placing on display a masked and hooded Guatemalan migrant threatened with immediate deportation by immigration officials at a televised press conference in January 1984, …
Security Intelligence Networks and the Transformation of Contract Private Security
This article explores the transformation of contract private security and security intelligence networks by drawing on results of a 2003 survey of contract security firms in Ontario, Canada. Comparing these results with a 1976 survey by Shearing et al. reveals a dramatic increase in the intelligence gathering and sharing capacities of contract security firms. This increased capacity can be put to various uses. The results of the 2003 survey permi…
Rethinking Sanctuary
The first comprehensive study of sanctuary in Canada identifies 36 sanctuary incidents since 1983. Through 46 personal interviews with sanctuary providers and examination of some 1,600 documents, sanctuary in the Canadian context is revealed to be less a national religious movement or network and more an array of temporary local incidents occurring largely independent of one another and of the now expired U.S. sanctuary movement. These sanctuary …
Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice
Facing immediate deportation, a lone Guatemalan migrant entered sanctuary in a Montreal church in December 1983. Thus began the practice of sanctuary in Canada. By 2003, thirty-six incidents involving 261 migrants had occurred nationwide. Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice closely examines sanctuary practice in Canada. Randy Lippert suggests that, far from being a coherent social movement, sanctuary practice is a localized and isolated phenomenon,…
Gouvernance urbaine et légalité d'en bas
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Urban Governance and Legality from Below
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Urban Revitalization, Security, and Knowledge Transfer
Cet article analyse le projet de revitalisation urbaine d'un centre-ville canadien et le problème que posait la mise en lumière d'aspects négligés de relance urbaine, de sécurité publique et de transfert de connaissances. L'utilisation des propriétés du centre-ville de Windsor a peu à peu cédé aux forces du marché et le quartier a connu une prolifération de bars pour jeunes. Le résultat en était un problème de sécurité publique à connotation mora…
Seeing private security like a state
Based on a systematic and detailed statutory analysis of 58 jurisdictions in Canada and the United States, this article constructs a modal typology of state regulation of contract private security. State regulation of private security has been neglected despite the fact it has grown across North American jurisdictions in the past two decades. Moving beyond rudimentary regulatory models and focusing on the contract security sector exclusively, fiv…
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Signs of the Surveillant Assemblage
Signage in urban ‘open-street’ CCTV arrangements is explored in relation to the strategies and forms of law brought to bear upon it. In the context of privacy regulation, CCTV signage’s content reflects deterrence strategies and political subjectification consistent with liberal governmentality. CCTV signage is evinced to be both an agent and target of privacy and other forms of law and is therefore shaped and brought into being by complex webs o…
Capturing crime, criminals and the public’s imagination
This article explores Crime Stoppers’ use of CCTV images as a node of a surveillant assemblage via analysis of a sample of Crime Stoppers advertisements deploying CCTV images supplemented by interviews and other qualitative procedures. Advertisements using images are becoming more prevalent and rely on complex textual narratives and the CCTV image format to construct crime for public consumption to generate ‘tips’. The advertisements capture a na…
Mundane and mutant devices of power
From the inception in the early 1980s of the Foucauldian-influenced corpus of work known as ‘governmentality studies’, theorists sought to encourage the empirical study of rationalities and technologies of government as elements that are mutually dependent but not related in a one-to-one fashion. Yet in the years since then, rationalities have received attention from analysts to the relative neglect of technologies. This article undertakes an ana…
Advancing governmentality studies
Criminology has been significantly influenced by governmentality studies and the social constructionist perspective on social problems. Despite emerging in distinctive academic networks, this article elaborates how both programmes similarly focus on the simultaneous governance and constitution of problematized—often moralized or criminalized—conduct; imagine plurality, temporality and continuous failure of their subject matters; and presume langu…
Downtown ambassadors, police relations and ‘clean and safe’ security
This article investigates uniformed patrols called 'ambassadors' that are increasingly providing security in the cores of western cities. An analysis of texts and interviews with key institutional actors in three cities reveals ambassador operations and practices are shaped and made possible by relations with police that entail exchanging knowledge for limited training and tacit tolerance. Ambassadors are imagined remaining distant from police an…
Wither Sanctuary
Features of all fifty sanctuary incidents occurring in Canada from 1983 to early 2009 are described and recent trends identified.The duration of sanctuary incidents has increased dramatically, the success rate has declined, and no new incidents have commenced in more than one and a half years.Sanctuary’s apparent decline in its “exposure” form as an effective resistance strategy is likely related to several factors, including less interest among …
Sanctuary in Context
Introduction: Sanctuary in Context
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