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Introduction
• Dr. MacLean is a retired University Professor who has lived in Hope for about 12 years. Originally from Ontario, Dr. MacLean studied first on the Prairies and later in England.
• He held a faculty position in Saskatchewan and from 1988 at the University of British Columbia.
• In 1991, Dr. MacLean was hired by Kwantlen College to help develop and deliver the new criminology program. He remained employed as a professor at Kwantlen until his retirement last year.
• Dr. MacLean has a lengthy work history. Full details of his professional accomplishments and credentials are fully detailed at the tab Curriculum Vitae.
• Below, are some of the highlights of the C.V.
Professional History
Dr. Brian D. MacLean received his BA and M.A in sociology from the University of Saskatchewan where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal for the most distinguished graduate. A considerable number of academic awards and distinctions concluded with his completion of a doctorate in sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences where he attended as a Commonwealth Scholar. All of Dr. MacLean’s degrees have focused on the study of crime and society and social justice. He has published 14 books in the broad category of social justice and numerous other refereed and scholarly publications in books, scholarly journals, research reports and technical reports in the general fields of criminology, sociology and social justice. He is the founding editor or founding co-editor of three academic journals, one of which, The Journal of Human Justice, is now a regular publication in the American Society of Criminology (Critical Criminology: An International Journal). Dr. MacLean has also demonstrated an ability to compete successfully for his share of social-scientific funding to carry out research. He has done research on and worked directly with, amongst others:
• Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia for studies in self-governance and criminal justice initiatives;
• Punjabi farmworkers in the Fraser Valley studying occupational health and safety policies and infractions;
• Environmentalists on Saturna Island, Islands Trust, studying the politics of public policy in relation to community plan development and land-use designation policies;
• Violence against women including criminal violence and various forms of physical, psychological and sexual assaults. Several methodological innovations in studying violence against women have been advanced in Dr. MacLean’s work in this area.
• ‘Black’ ethno-cultural minority populations in inner-city London, England studying criminal justice policy and policing;
• Rural populations in studying rural depopulation in Saskatchewan.
All of this work has involved large-scale survey research. Indeed, one of the projects with Aboriginal groups involved training Aboriginal Youth to conduct interviews in the Aboriginal People’s Survey component of the Canadian Census.
During the quarter century that he has been teaching, Dr. MacLean has sought to maintain a level of teaching excellence, despite the energy devoted to scholarly research and publication programs. He was a member of the graduate faculty and competent to teach a range of courses in criminology, sociology, and social justice as demonstrated on his C.V. His specialties have been criminal justice policy (policing, corrections, and administration of justice) and social inequalities (such as gender, class and ethno-cultural association); democratic processes in small communities; theories of crime, particularly critical theories of crime; social theory, particularly political economy; and social research methodology, with a particular expertise in each of quantitative, qualitative, and social policy evaluation techniques. He has succeeded in bringing his research experiences into the classroom as novel material, both in graduate supervision and undergraduate instruction.
Dr. MacLean’s work has been recognized on three continents. His work on the Islington Crime Survey in London England has been one of the most cited works in criminology since it was published 20 years ago. It had a significant impact on the way that criminal justice is both administered and studied by the Home Office in the United Kingdom. Due to the influence of that book, he is the third most cited scholar in his field internationally during the same period. Only Jock Young from England, and Richard Quinney from the United States have been cited more than him during that period (Wright and Friedrichs, 1999). Both Young and Quinney began publishing in the 1960s.
Dr. MacLean’s work on the Islington Crime Survey lead directly to a consultancy with the Irish Home Office and the Queen’s University of Belfast on the Northern Ireland Peace Process. His job was to advance a program of research aimed at the way policing in Northern Ireland might be administered after the cease-fire and in the wake of the disbanding of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Additionally, this work led to Dr. MacLean’s invitation to act as an independent special expert observer to the United Nations Policy Symposium on International Crime and Treatment of Offenders in Vienna.
In addition to a long list of scholarly awards and distinctions, he has also been the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. This award recognized the role of his work in social justice and in opening up the new line of debate in critical criminology referred to as 'left realism' in England where he also served on a working group that wrote the Labour Party Election Manifesto section on crime and crime prevention for the 1987 British National Elections.
He has also had his share of successful research projects. He has always been competitive in the Social Sciences and Humanities funding streams; however, he has also had some successful experience in competing for other kinds of funds on behalf of the various groups with whom he has worked. He has a good capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration whether individually or as part of a team.
Medical History
In 2001, Dr. MacLean fractured facial bones and suffered serious neck trauma from a mountain biking accident that disabled him for some time. Shortly after his recovery, in 2003 he was in a near fatal car crash which left him with three fractured vertebrae. Obviously, he was forced to convalesce at home suffering through a long period of disability and lack of mobility. A degenerative arthritic condition was also seriously exacerbated by these accidents. Since then, his employer generously provided him with a combination of Disability and Research Leaves allowing him to recover his mobility and most of his professional activity again with a one-year appointment at York University in Toronto as a Visiting Professor. Nevertheless, Dr. MacLean has elected for early retirement. He no longer feels capable of teaching four courses per term in addition to continuing a scholarly research and publication program. He is still fully capable of intellectual and professional work and fully able to travel. He is eager to continue the kinds of professional activities that characterize his career; however, he no longer feels able to fully participate in academic life at the level of functioning to which he had been accustomed. His objective is to find intellectually-stimulating work without the kinds of demands on time associated with a full-time academic appointment. He has a fully equipped office at home with all of the necessary tools for conducting professional work there.
Dr. MacLean feels that, despite his disability, he has the capacity to engage in meaningful and productive work and believes that his expertise and experience would lend themselves well to any Municipal Council.
Please see the tab Credentials for Councillor for a discussion of how the above qualifies Dr. MacLean for the position of Councillor.
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