Christopher Murphy
Professor; Joint Faculty, University of King's College
Email: cmurphy4@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2523
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
- Social justice and inequality
- Crime and deviance
- Policing and security
- Social policy
- Atlantic Canada
- Canada
Joint Faculty, University of King's College
Cross appointment
- International Development Studies
Education
- BA, St. Francis Xavier University
- MA, H漫画 University
- PhD, University of Toronto
Research interests
Chris Murphy is a sociologist who teaches, does research and publishes work primarily on crime and criminal justice, policing and security and policy research. Over a long career he has published numerous academic articles, books chapters, and research reports, especially on policing topics such as: police change and reform, new models of policing and security, public and private policing, post 9/11 policing and security issues and research and policing policy.
Dr. Murphy has been involved with various government and public commissions of inquiry, policy advisory boards and police reform and change initiatives. He is currently researching and writing on current neoliberal police reform and change and academic knowledge transfer initiatives in the Canadian police community.
Selected publications
- 2012聽 鈥淧olicing Policy in Canada: Post 9/11.鈥� In K. Ismaili, J. Sprott 聽& K. Varma (Eds.), Canadian Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader (pp. 1-20). Toronto: Oxford University Press.
- 2007聽 鈥�'Securitizing鈥� Canadian Policing:聽 A New Policing Paradigm
for the Post 9/11 Security State?鈥� The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 32(4): 451-477. - Clarke, C. & Murphy, C. 2005聽 鈥淐ommunities of Policing and Policing Communities: A Comparative Study of Policing in Two Urban Communities.鈥� In D. Cooley (Ed.), Re-Imagining Policing in Canada (pp. 209-259). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- 2004聽 鈥淟a 鈥楽茅curitisation鈥� du Community Policing Anglo-Am茅ricain.鈥� Les Cahiers de la S茅curit茅 Interieure, 55(1): 37-59.
- 2002聽 鈥淭he Rationalization of Public Policing in Canada:聽 A Study of the Impact and Implications of Resource Limits and Market Strategies in Public Policing.鈥澛� Commissioned Report. Ottawa:聽 Police Futures Group and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. (58 pages).
- 1998聽 鈥淧olicing Postmodern Canada.鈥� Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 13(2): 1-25.