By examining the police’s use of tasers in Canada, this paper attempts to gain some purchase on non-lethal policing: social relations created through non-lethal weapons (NLWs) and modes of force that get under the skin without breaking it. This paper maps out how discourses of “less ” lethality, the Braidwood commis-sion’s recommendations, military NLW strategy and closed notions of community coalesce within Canada’s national-security regime to authorize the use of non-lethal force while at the same time obfuscating the taser’s non-lethal capacities, which cause people to fall down and their bodies to leak in unprecedented ways. In closing, this essay outlines what I call a non-containerizing politics of touch that challenges this national-...
This study explored the police use of Tasers and how this has an impact on matters such as public co...
On December 6, 1989, fourteen women were murdered at the École Polytechnique in Montreal by a gunman...
Abstract In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the role of ‘less-lethal ’ option...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the police literature, select agency reports, and m...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the police literature, select agency reports, and m...
Over the last decade, Tasers and other electroshock devices have become a nearly standard, though hi...
yesThe length of this Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project Report No.7 again reflects the i...
The enforcement tool Taser is used by police officers in United States, United Kingdom, France and...
This article provides the first legal history of the regulation of “assault-style” weapons in Canada...
This op-ed piece argues that police will inevitably be placed in impossible situations in which they...
In missions to stabilize conflicts around the world, the military forces increasingly find themselve...
Use of non-lethal weapons by the police could significantly reduce the number of episodes involving ...
In 2001, Westminster, Colorado police officers were dispatched to the home of a suicidal thirteen ye...
Examines the possibility that police officers are over using tasers, and suggests that more training...
The research question explored in this analysis is whether or not the adoption of less than lethal w...
This study explored the police use of Tasers and how this has an impact on matters such as public co...
On December 6, 1989, fourteen women were murdered at the École Polytechnique in Montreal by a gunman...
Abstract In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the role of ‘less-lethal ’ option...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the police literature, select agency reports, and m...
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review the police literature, select agency reports, and m...
Over the last decade, Tasers and other electroshock devices have become a nearly standard, though hi...
yesThe length of this Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project Report No.7 again reflects the i...
The enforcement tool Taser is used by police officers in United States, United Kingdom, France and...
This article provides the first legal history of the regulation of “assault-style” weapons in Canada...
This op-ed piece argues that police will inevitably be placed in impossible situations in which they...
In missions to stabilize conflicts around the world, the military forces increasingly find themselve...
Use of non-lethal weapons by the police could significantly reduce the number of episodes involving ...
In 2001, Westminster, Colorado police officers were dispatched to the home of a suicidal thirteen ye...
Examines the possibility that police officers are over using tasers, and suggests that more training...
The research question explored in this analysis is whether or not the adoption of less than lethal w...
This study explored the police use of Tasers and how this has an impact on matters such as public co...
On December 6, 1989, fourteen women were murdered at the École Polytechnique in Montreal by a gunman...
Abstract In recent years, considerable attention has been given to the role of ‘less-lethal ’ option...