Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design

About

Kevin Walby is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg Canada. He is the author of Touching Encounters: Sex Work and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting and the co-author of Municipal Corporate Security in International Context as well as A Criminology of Policing and Security Frontiers. He is the co-editor of Access to Information and Social Justice: Critical Research Strategies for Journalists Scholars and Activists; Brokering Access: Power Politics and Freedom of Information Process in Canada; The Handbook of Prison Tourism; Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service; National Security Surveillance and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective; Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a 21st Century World and Corporate Security in the 21st Century: Theory and Practice in International Perspective. He is co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.Alex Luscombe is a PhD Candidate in criminology at the University of Toronto Canada. He has published widely on issues of policing corruption secrecy and Freedom of Information law in Canada and beyond. His past research has appeared in Social Forces British Journal of Criminology Sociology International Political Sociology Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice Policing & Society Criminology & Criminal Justice as well as a number of other academic journals and edited volumes. He serves on the editorial board of Criminological Highlights a University of Toronto publication aimed at providing criminal justice practitioners with an accessible overview of recent criminological research. He is also a Junior Fellow at the University of Torontos Massey College.