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Kevin Walby

Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. He has authored or co-authored articles in British Journal of Criminology, Qualitative Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Punishment & Society, Antipode, Policing and Society, Urban Studies, Surveillance and Society, Media, Culture, and Society, Sociology, Current Sociology, International Sociology, Social Movement Studies, and more. He is author of Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting (2012, University of Chicago Press). He is co-editor of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada with M. Larsen (2012, UBC Press). He is co-author with R. Lippert of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context (2015, Routledge). He has co-edited with R. Lippert Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in the 21st Century (2013, Routledge) and Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective (2014, Palgrave). He is co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice with J. Brownlee (2015, ARP Books) and The Handbook of Prison Tourism with J. Wilson, S. Hodgkinson, and J. Piche (2017, Palgrave). He is co-editor of Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service with Jamie Brownlee and Chris Hurl (2018, Between the Lines Press). He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

Books by Kevin Walby

Political Activist Ethnography

Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle

edited by Agnieszka Doll, Laura Bisaillon & Kevin Walby

Changing of the Guards

Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada

edited by Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby & Derek Silva

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V30 #1

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Disarm, Defund, Dismantle

Police Abolition in Canada

edited by Shiri Pasternak, Kevin Walby & Abby Stadnyk

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V29

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #2

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Contemporary Criminological Issues

Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion

edited by Carolyn Côté-Lussier, David Moffette & Justin Piché
contributions by Gillian Balfour, Jeffrey Bradley, Chris Bruckert, Kathryn Campbell, Patrice Corriveau, Serena Dastouri, Jean-Denis David, Rachel Faytor, Maritza Felices-Luna, Matthew Ferguson, Christine Gervais, Chris Greco, Anouk Guiné, Katrin Hohl, Matthew S. Johnston, Jennifer Kilty, Tuulia Law, Sandra Lehalle, Britany Mario, Veronica Martinez, Leslie McGowran, Jeffrey Monaghan, Audrey Monette, Baljit Nagra, Anna Pratt, Gwénola Ricordeau, Elisa Romano, Carolina S. Boe, Kevin Walby, Irvin Waller & Stephanie Wellman

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V28 #1

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V27 #2

Special Issue: 20 Years of Convict Criminology - Developing Insider Perspectives in Research Activism

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby
by (author) Andreas Aresti & Sacha Darke

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V27 #1

General Issue

edited by Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Corporatizing Canada

Making Business out of Public Service

edited by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl & Kevin Walby

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, V26 #1&2

Dialogue on Canada’s Federal Penitentiary System and the Need for Change

edited by Jarrod Shook, Bridget McInnis, Justin Piché & Kevin Walby

Brokering Access

Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada

edited by Mike Larsen & Kevin Walby