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CURRICULUM VITAE –SHORT VERSION
January, 2008
NAME: Brian D. MacLean
LANGUAGES: English (fluent), French (comprehension)
EDUCATION:
B.A. Honours with High Honours (Sociology), 1981, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CANADA.
M.A. (Sociology), 1983, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CANADA. Thesis entitled: State Expenditures and The Canadian Criminal Justice System.
Ph.D. (Sociology), 1989, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, ENGLAND. Dissertation entitled: The Islington Crime Survey 1985: A Cross-Sectional Study of Crime and Policing in The London Borough of Islington.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
1992 The American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology, Distinguished Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the field of critical criminology.
1985 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship.
1983 The British Council/Association of Commonwealth Universities British Commonwealth Scholarship (renewed, 1984).
1983 Association of University Principals and Vice-Chancellors in the U.K Overseas Research Scholarship.
1983 University of Saskatchewan Hantelman Humanities Scholarship.
1982 University of Saskatchewan S.A. Wakil Scholarship.
1981 University of Saskatchewan University Prize in Arts for most distinguished graduate.
1981 University of Saskatchewan President’s Gold Medal for most distinguished graduate.
1981 University of Saskatchewan Correspondence Scholarship.
1981 University of Saskatchewan Graduate Studies Scholarship.
1981 University of Saskatchewan Honours Scholarship.
1978 University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Scholarship.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
July 31, 2006 – June 30,2007. Assistant Professor in Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3. One year contractually limited appointment as visitor from Kwantlen University College.
Sept., 1991 – 2007 (retired). Instructor in Department of Criminology at Kwantlen University College. Box 9030, Surrey, BC. V3T 5H8. Full-time, continuing appointment without term granted May 17, 1994. (Now employed at half-time on research leave until March 2007 early retirement)
July, 1988 – June, 1991. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. List of courses furnished upon request.
July, 1985 – July, 1988. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Member of the Graduate Faculty July, 1986 – July, 1988. List of courses furnished upon request.
October, 1984 – July 1985. Part-Time Lecturer with the Social Science Faculty, Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, London, U.K. List of courses furnished upon request.
While employed as Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, The School of Human Justice, University of Regina had me conduct several courses for them at their Community Educational Centre in Saskatoon. While employed as Assistant Professor at UBC and Professor of Criminology at Kwantlen University College, The School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University had me teach several courses in special topics, research methods, and introduction to criminology. During this period, I have also taught courses in Minorities and the Justice System at Secwepemc Cultural Education Society (Shuswap Reservation in Kamloops, BC). Particulars for all of these courses will be furnished upon request.
TEACHING RECORD
Since 1982, I have taught the following courses. While all courses are ‘sociological,’ those marked with * indicate a non-specifically sociological orientation:
Criminology Departments: Introduction to Criminology; Criminological Theory; Sociological Explanations of Crime; Research Methods in Criminology; The Administration of Justice; Current Issues in Criminology; Critical Approaches to Crime and Deviance; Crime, Criminology and Human Justice; Current Issues in Correctional Practice; Introduction to The Criminal Justice System *; Introduction to Corrections*; Introduction to Policing* ; Police Community Relations ; Community Policing; Canadian Legal Systems*; Guided Independent Study for a Variety of Criminology Courses
Sociology Departments: Introduction to Sociology; Culture and Society*; Introduction to Social Research Methods; Computers and Data Processing for Social Science Research; Advanced Social Research Methods; Introduction to Social Theory; Advanced Social Theory; Social Theory and Social Structure; Theoretical and Methodological Problems in Sociology; Readings in Sociology; Honours Seminar in Sociology; Crime and Society; Crime and Delinquency; Deviance and Social Control; Sociology of Law; Sociology of Penology and Corrections; Honours Seminar in Criminology; Sociology of; Education; Seminar in Organized Crime; Sociology of Policing; Policing and the Community
Graduate Departments: Seminar in Criminology; Seminar in Victimology; Graduate Readings in Special Topics; Graduate Theses Seminar; Graduate Seminar in The Sociology of Crime and Justice
TEACHING RECORD WITH MOST RECENT EMPLOYMENT
Fall Term 2006: Seminar in Sociology of Policing; Seminar in Organized Crime; Policing and Community (3rd year lecture course)
Winter term, 2007: Seminar in Sociology of Policing (2 sections); Seminar in Organized Crime
COMMITTEE SERVICE
Department Level: Departmental Selection Committee; Departmental Awards Committee; Departmental Computer Lab Committee; Departmental Computer Committee; Departmental Curriculum Committee; Departmental Special Events Committee; Departmental Budget and Planning Committee; Departmental Publication Committee
University/College Level: College Computer Committee; College Library Committee
College Committee on Research and Scholarly Work; University Committee on Research and Scholarly Work
PROFESSIONAL AND CONSULTANT EMPLOYMENT: PAST
1999 – 2000. Consultant for The Aboriginal Peoples Council (BC) Justice and Corrections Roundtable.
1995 Research Consultant for the Northern Ireland Office, Queen’s University of Belfast.
Nov. 1991 – July 1995. Principal Researcher for The Progressive Indo-Canadian Community Services. A survey of migrant farmworkers in the Fraser Valley, funded by Multiculuralism Directorate, Secretary of State.
1988 Research Consultant for the Cumberland House Economic Development Corporation.
1986 Research Consultant for The Saskatoon District Chiefs Development Corporation.
1985 Production Consultant for BBC Panorama Program, Chris Oxley, Producer. This non-paid post included the reimbursement of expenses to act as consultant for the 40-minute documentary special entitled The Thin Blue Line aired Feb. 1986 in the U.K. The program reported solely upon the research and findings of the Islington Crime Survey for which I was the principal researcher..
1984 – 1986 Senior Research Officer with the London Borough Of Islington Police Committee Support Unit, London, U.K. Responsible for conception, execution, supervision and maintenance of research programs aimed at Council Social Policy Development. Also a member of: The LBI Crime Prevention Working Party, The LBI Police Consultative Liaison Committee and The LBI Computer Development Working Party.
1984 – 1985 Research Consultant for The Middlesex Victim Research Unit, Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, London, U.K.
1982 Production Consultant with Jack Emack, Producer, CBC, Edmonton, Canada, Catalyst Television Productions feature entitled Incarceration and aired Feb., 1983.
1981 – 1982 Social Services Worker I with the Saskatchewan Department of Social Services (Saskatoon, Killburn Hall), Regina Canada. Responsible for Counseling Young Offenders adjudged delinquent and incarcerated.
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS AND EQUIVALENT
2000 United Native Nations, Brian D. MacLean (co-Principal Investigator), and Marcel Swain (co-Principal Investigator) – Human Resources Development Canada. $87,000 to conduct a study into urban Aboriginal homelessness in British Columbia.
2000 United Native Nations and Brian D. MacLean – Urban Aboriginal Labour Market Development Program. $65,000 pilot project to establish an Urban Aboriginal Research Centre on Studies in Self Governance.
1999 Brian D. MacLean, Principal, with Kwantlen University College, The United Native Nations Society, Progressive Inter-Cultural Community Services Society, and Surrey Delta Immigrant Services Society – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC). $5000 to complete proposal for the Community-University Research Alliance program as per letter of intent.
1999 Brian D. MacLean – Aboriginal Peoples Council (APC). $5000 to investigate and report upon data pertaining to Aboriginal Justice initiatives and the development of a research program to fulfill the APC mandate for negotiations in the devolution process.
1997 Brian D. MacLean, Principal, with Scott Clark – United Native Nations, Vancouver. $20,000 to train Aboriginal Fieldworkers and to conduct a pilot project, Enumeration of Peoples of Aboriginal Ancestry in Vancouver.
1991 Brian D. MacLean, ed. – SSHRCC Aid to Learned Journals, $12528.00 to assist in publication of The Journal of Human Justice, 1992-1995.
1990 Brian MacLean, Principal, with John Lowman – SSHRC assistance to occasional conferences, $6000 as partial funding for Realist Criminology Conference.
1990 Brian MacLean with John Lowman – UBC financial assistance of $3000 as partial funding for Realist Criminology Conference.
1990 John Lowman and Brian MacLean – SFU conference assistance fund $4300 as partial funding for Realist Criminology Conference.
1990 Brian MacLean and John Lowman – $1000 from The Vancouver Bar Association as funding assistance for the Realist Criminology Conference.
1990 Brian MacLean and John Lowman – $950.00 from The Ministry of The Solicitor General of Canada, Financial Assistance for Realist Criminology Conference.
1990 Brian MacLean and John Lowman – The Attorney General of British Columbia, $950, Financial Assistance for The Realist Criminology Conference.
1988 Brian MacLean – SSHRC, UBC New Faculty Grant $1986 for Preparatory Research for Victimization Survey.
1987 – 1989 Brian MacLean – SSHRC Seed Grants with Strategic Grants Program $4858 to study Correlates of Family Violence.
1987 – 1988 Brian MacLean, Principal Investigator, with A. Anderson, and P. Li, – Department of Supply and Services, Demographic Review Phase II, Health and Welfare Canada, DSS Contract Number H107-7-001/07 ST $41,212 to study Rural Depopulation and The Saskatchewan Economy.
1987 Brian MacLean – SSHRC, Research Fund. $1990 for The Measurement of Domestic Violence.
1987 Brian MacLean – College Research Fund, $300 for Investigating Adolescent Substance Abuse.
1984-1985 Brian MacLean, Principal Investigator, with Jock Young and Trevor Jones – London Borough of Islington, London, U.K. £18,000.00, to conduct the fieldwork for the Islington Crime Survey.
1985 Brian MacLean – Middlesex Polytechnic Dean’s Grant, £800 to conduct An Evaluation of Neighbourhood Watch Schemes.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1999 Dawn H. Currie, David Hay, and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Exploring the Social World: Social Research in Action. Vancouver: Collective Press, 160 pp.
1997 Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. Thinking Critically About Crime. Vancouver: Collective Press, 160 pp.
1996 Brian D. MacLean, ed. Crime and Society: Readings in Critical Criminology. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman, 208 pp.
1995 Gurcharn Basran, Charan Gill, and Brian D. MacLean. Farmworkers and Their Children. Vancouver: Collective Press, 128 pp.
1994 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Social Inequality and Social Justice. Vancouver: Collective Press, 128 pp.
1993 Brian D. MacLean and Harold Pepinsky, eds. We Who Would Take no Prisoners: A Selection of Proceedings from the Fifth International Conference on Penal Abolition. Vancouver: Collective Press, 123 pp.
1992 John Lowman and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in The 1990s, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 370 pp.
1992 D. H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Rethinking The Administration of Justice. Halifax: Fernwood Publications, 324 pp.
1991 Brian D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds. New Directions in Critical Criminology: Left Realism, Feminism, Postmodernism, and Peacemaking. Vancouver: Collective Press, 124 pp.
1990 Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. Racism, Empiricism and Criminal Justice. Vancouver: Collective Press, 122 pp.
1986 D. H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds. The Administration of Justice. Saskatoon: SRU, 264 pp.
1986 T. Jones, Brian D. MacLean and J. Young. The Islington Crime Survey: Crime, Victimization and Policing in Inner-City London. Aldershot: Gower, 265 pp.
1986 Brian D. MacLean, ed. The Political Economy of Crime: Readings for a Critical Criminology. Toronto: Prentice-Hall Canada, 383 pp.
Refereed Journal Articles
1995 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Critical Reflections on the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: Implications for “Peacethinking” Criminology.’ Humanity and Society, 19 (3): 99-108.
1994 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Gender Inequality in Dispositions under the Young Offenders Act.’ Humanity and Society, 18 (3), Autumn: 64-81.
1993 DeKeseredy, Walter S., and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Critical Criminological Pedagogy in Canada: Strengths, Limitations and Recommendations for Improvement.’ Criminal Justice Education, 4 (2): 361-376.
1993 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Right Realism and Priority Prosecution: The Necessity of a Progressive Law and Order Discourse in Canada.’ Humanity and Society, 17 (3): 345-364.
1993 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Woman Abuse in Dating Relationships: Rethinking Women’s Safety on Campus.’ Journal of Human Justice, 4 (2): 1-24.
1993 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Left Realism, Local Crime Surveys and Policing of Racial Minorities: A Further Analysis of Data From The First Sweep of The Islington Crime Survey.’ Crime Law and Social Change: An International Journal, 19: 51-86.
1992 Brian D. MacLean ‘Critical Criminology and The Emergence of Critical Justice Studies in Canada.’ Humanity and Society, 16 (3): 414-426.
1992 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Post-Secondary Education in The Prison: Functional Literacy, Cognitive and Moral Development or Social Control.’ Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Vol. 4, No. 1: 21-28. (By invitation and refereed by editorial board.)
1991 John Lowman and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Prisons and Protest in Canada.’ Social Justice, Vol. 18, No. 3, Fall, 1991:130-154.
1991 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Master Status, Stigma, Termination and Beyond.’ Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Vol. 3 No. 1/2 Spring, 1991:111-118. (By invitation and refereed by editorial board.)
1991 Walter S. DeKeseredy and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Exploring the Gender, Class, and Race Dimensions of Victimization: A Left Realist Critique of The Canadian Urban Victimization Survey.’ The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1991:143-161.
1991 Brian D. MacLean. ‘In Partial Defence of Socialist Realism.’ Crime, Law and Social Change: An International Journal (formerly, Contemporary Crises), Vol. 15, No. 3, 1991:213-254. (Reprinted in Ron Hinch, ed. 1994. Readings in Critical Criminology, pp 311-341. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.).
1990 Brian D. MacLean and Walter S. DeKeseredy. ‘Taking Working Class Victimization Seriously; The Contribution of Left Realist Surveys.’ The International Review of Modern Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 2, Autumn: 211-228.
1990 Dawn Currie, Walter DeKeseredy, and Brian MacLean. ‘Reconstituting Social Order and Social Control: Police Accountability in Canada.’ The Journal of Human Justice, Vol. 2, Number 1, Autumn, 1990: 29-53.
1990 Walter S. DeKeseredy and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Researching Woman Abuse in Canada: A Realist Critique of The Conflict Tactic Scales.’ The Canadian Review of Social Policy, No. 25, May: 19-27.
1989 Peter Li and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Changes in the Rural Elderly Population and Their Effects on The Small Town Economy: The Case of Saskatchewan, 1971-1986.’ Rural Sociology, Summer, 1989: 213-226.
1989 Brian D. MacLean. ‘What is to be Done About The Correctional Enterprise in Canada.’ Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Vol. 1, No. 2 Winter 1988/1989:59-74.
1987 Brian D. MacLean and R.S. Ratner. ‘An Historical Analysis of Bills C-67 and C-68: Implications for The Native Offender.’ Native Studies Review, Vol. 3, No. 1: 31-58.
Chapters in Books
1999 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Focussed Enumeration as a Research Method To Identify Rare Elements in the Population: Punjabi Farmworkers and Their Children in British Columbia's Fraser Valley,’ in D. Currie, D. Hay, and B. D. MacLean, eds., Exploring the Social World: Social Research in Action, 59-84. Vancouver: Collective Press. (This essay is a revised version of chapter 4 from Farmworkers and Their Children, 38-59 Vancouver; Collective Press.)
1999 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Measuring Violence Against Women: The Interview as a Gendered Social Encounter,’ in D. Currie, D. Hay, and B. D. MacLean, eds., Exploring the Social World: Social Research in Action, 108-128. Vancouver: Collective Press. (This essay is reprinted from Martin D. Schwartz, ed. Researching Violence Against Women: Methodological and Personal Perspectives, 157-178. Thousand Oaks: Sage.)
1998 Walter DeKeseredy and Brian D. MacLean, “‘But Women Do It Too:’ The Contexts and Nature of Female-To-Male Violence in Canadian Heterosexual Dating Relationships,” in George Rigakos and Kevyn Bonnycastle, eds., Unsettling Truths: Violence Against Women in Canada: Battered Women, Policy, Politics, and Contemporary Research in Canada, 23-30. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1997 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, ‘Measuring Violence Against Women: The Interview as a Gendered Social Encounter,’ in Martin D. Schwartz, ed., Measuring Sexual Assault and Harassment: Methodology for the New Millennium, 157-178. Belmont, CA. Sage Publications.
1997 Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic. ‘Thinking Critically About Criminology,’ in Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic, eds., Thinking Critically About Crime, 11-16. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1997 Walter DeKeseredy, Brian D. MacLean, and Martin D. Schwartz. ‘Thinking Critically About Left Realism,’ in Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic, eds., Thinking Critically About Crime, 19-27. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1996 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Crime, Criminology and Society: A Short but Critical Introduction.’ Brian D. MacLean, ed. Crime and Society, 1-23. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman.
1992 Brian D. MacLean. ‘A Program of Local Crime Survey Research For Canada,’ in J. Lowman and Brian D. MacLean, eds., Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in The 1900s, 336-365. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Reprinted in Brian D. MacLean, ed. 1996. Crime and Society, 73-106. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman.)
1992 John Lowman and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Left Realism, Crime Control and Policing in The 1990s,’ in J. Lowman and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Realist Criminology: Crime Control and Policing in The 1990s, 3-29. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
1992 Dawn H. Currie, Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic. ‘Three Traditions of Critical Justice Inquiry: Class, Gender and Discourse,’ in D. H. Currie and B. D. MacLean, eds., Rethinking The Administration of Justice, 3-42. Halifax: Fernwood.
1992 Dawn H. Currie, W. S. DeKeseredy, and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Reconstituting Social Order and Social Control: Police Accountability in Canada,’ in D. H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds., Rethinking The Administration of Justice, 276-297. Halifax: Fernwood. (Revised and reprinted from Journal of Human Justice Vol. 2, No. 1, 1991: 29-53).
1992 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Women, Men, and Police: Losing The Fight Against Wife Battery in Canada,’ in Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean (eds) Rethinking The Administration of Justice, 25-275. Halifax: Fernwood. (Reprinted in Ron Hinch, ed. 1994. Readings in Critical Criminology, pp 311-341. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.).
1991 Brian D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic. ‘On Critical Criminology,’ in B. D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds., New Directions in Critical Criminology, 1-8. Vancouver: Collective Press. (Reprinted in Brian D. MacLean, ed. 1996. Crime and Society, 107-116 Toronto: Copp Clark Longman).
1991 Brian D. MacLean. ‘The Origins of Left Realism,’ in B. D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds., New Directions in Critical Criminology, 9-14. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1990 Walter S. DeKeseredy and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Discrimination Against Native Peoples in The Canadian Parole Process,’ in B.D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds., Racism, Empiricism and Criminal Justice, 61-68. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1990 Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic. ‘An Anatomy of The ‘No Discrimination Thesis,’ in B.D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds., Racism, Empiricism and Criminal Justice, 1-2. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1990 Brian D. MacLean and Dragan Milovanovic. ‘Discrimination and Criminal Justice,’ in B.D. MacLean and D. Milovanovic, eds., Racism, Empiricism and Criminal Justice, 121-122. Vancouver: Collective Press.
1988 Seema Ahluwalia and Brian D. MacLean. ‘The Medicalization of Domestic Violence,’ in B.S. Bolaria and H.D. Dickinson, eds., Sociology of Health Care in Canada, 183-197. Toronto: HBJ.
1987 Robert Regnier and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Hegemony in Education: The Nuclear Industry in Northern Schools,’ in T. Wotherspoon, ed., The Political Economy of Canadian Schooling, 165-182. Toronto: Methuen.
1986 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Critical Criminology and Some Limitations of Traditional Inquiry,’ in Brian D. MacLean, ed., The Political Economy of Crime, 1-20. Toronto: Prentice-Hall Canada.
1986 Brian D. MacLean. ‘State Expenditures on Canadian Criminal Justice,’ in Brian D. MacLean, ed., The Political Economy of Crime, 106-133. Toronto: Prentice-Hall Canada. (Reprinted in Brian D. MacLean, ed. 1996. Crime and Society, 117-154. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman.)
1986 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Alienation, Reification, and Beyond: The Political Economy of Crime,’ in Brian D. MacLean, ed., The Political Economy of Crime, 365-377. Toronto: Prentice-Hall Canada.
1986 Dawn H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean. ‘The Struggle for Justice,’ in D.H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds., The Administration of Justice, 1-18. Saskatoon: SRU.
1986 Seema Ahluwalia and Brian D. MacLean. ‘Racial Biases in Policing: The Case of The Female Victim,’ in D.H. Currie and Brian D. MacLean, eds., The Administration of Justice, 64-89. Saskatoon: SRU.
1984 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Social Control in Canadian Prisons,’ in J. Fry, ed., Contradictions in Canadian Society, 156-174 (revised publication of item below) Toronto: Wiley.
1983 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Contradictions in Canadian Prisons: Some Aspects of Social Control Mechanisms,’ in T. Fleming and L. Visano, eds., Deviant Designations, 389-410. Toronto: Butterworths.
Journals Published
Critical Criminology: An International Journal
(Formerly Journal of Human Justice)
2000 Meda Chesney-Lind, Dawn Currie, Walter DeKeseredy, and Brian D. MacLean, eds. Critical Criminology: An International Journal, Volume 9, Number 1/2, Autumn, 2000: 170 pp.
As founding editor of this refereed journal (1989 – 2000), I have edited or co-edited with various others an additional 16 editions of Critical Criminology. Details of these publications will be furnished upon request
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
1997 Brian D. MacLean, special guest editor, Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Volume 7, Number 2, 1997: 64 pp. ‘Loyalist Prisoners of War.’
1997 Brian D. MacLean, special guest editor, Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Volume 7, Number 1, 1997: 93 pp. ‘Republican Prisoners of War.’
From 1989 until 1993, I acted in the capacity of the production or co-editor for this journal with various co-editors. 7 additional editions were published during this period, the details for which will be furnished upon request.
Humanity and Society
1996 Brian D. MacLean, production editor, Dragan Milovanovic, editor, Humanity and Society, 20 (1), Winter: 128 pp.
During the period of 1994-1996, I acted in the capacity of production editor for an additional 7 editions of Humanity and Society. Details will be furnished upon request.
The Critical Criminologist
1993 Walter S. DeKeseredy, Bernard Headley, and Brian D. MacLean, eds., Brian D. MacLean, production editor, The Critical Criminologist, Vol. 5 No. 4, Winter, 1993: 24 pp.
As a founding co-editor for this newsletter, I acted in the capacity of co-editor during the period 1989 – 1994. In this time, an additional 16 editions were published, details for which will be furnished upon request.
Technical Reports
1995 Gurcharn Basran, Charan Gill, and Brian D. MacLean. Farmworkers and Their Children submitted to the Multiculturalism Directorate, Secretary of State, 263 pp plus Executive Summary, 36 pp.
1988 Brian D. MacLean, A.B. Anderson and Peter S. Li. Rural Depopulation and The Saskatchewan Economy submitted to Review of Demography and its Implications for Economic and Social Policy Health and Welfare Canada, Demographic Review Phase II DSS Contract H107-7-001/07 ST, September, Ottawa, Ontario, 195 pp.
1986 Brian D. MacLean. The 1986 Saskatoon Area Survey, Social Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, 7 pp.
1986 Brian D. MacLean. Feasibility Study for Golf Course on The Whitecap/Sioux Reserve. The Saskatoon District Chiefs Development Corporation, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 43 pp.
1986 Brian D. MacLean, T. Jones, and J. Young. The Preliminary Results of The Islington Crime Survey. The London Borough of Islington Police Sub-Committee, January, London, England, 353 pp.
1984 Brian D. MacLean. Report of The Victimization Pilot Study on The Girdlestone Estate. London Borough of Islington Police Sub-Committee, November, London, England, 21 pp.
1984 Brian D. MacLean. Victimization in Islington: A Methodological Report. London Borough of Islington Police Sub-Committee, March, London, England 16 pp.
Chapters in Technical Reports
1988 Brian D. MacLean. ‘Rural Depopulation and The Saskatchewan Economy: Introduction and Executive Summary,’ in Brian D. MacLean, A.B. Anderson and Peter S. Li. Rural Depopulation and The Saskatchewan Economy, 1988:1-44.
1988 Brian D. MacLean. ‘A Survey of The Ex-Residents of The Town of Hafford and The Rural Municipality of Redberry,’ in Brian D. MacLean, A.B. Anderson and Peter S. Li. Rural Depopulation and The Saskatchewan Economy, 1988:176-195.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Past 10 years
Organizational
2000 Brian D. MacLean, by special invitation to act as an Independent Expert Observer for the Tenth United Nations Congress on the International Control of Crime and Treatment of Offenders, Vienna Conference Centre, Vienna, April 10-18.
1998 Session Organizer and Chair. Limitations and Possibilities of Sociological Research into the Disenfranchised. The bi-annual meetings of the Western Association of Anthropology and Sociology. Vancouver, April.
1998 Session Organizer and Chair. War in the Gulf: The Politics of Tree Harvesting and Land Use in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia. The bi-annual meetings of the Western Association of Anthropology and Sociology. Vancouver, April.
1996 Session Organizer and Chair. New Directions in Critical Criminology: Resisting the Backlash. The bi-annual meetings of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology. Kelowna, BC, May 9-12.
24 further items prior to 1996 will be furnished upon request.
Papers Delivered
2006 Brian D. MacLean “The Ethnographic Dialogue: Implications for Research, Ethics, and the Critical Criminological Enterprise.” Paper presented to the Annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November 2.
1999 Brian D. MacLean (on behalf of Roger Elmes), “Obstacles to Social Science Research in the College Sector,” presented at the annual meetings of The Association of Community Colleges in Canada, Dec. 1.
1998 Brian D. MacLean, “The ‘Poverty’ of the Postmodern Explanation for Poverty: Political Economy, Survey Research, and Political Empowerment,” presented at the bi-annual meetings of the Western Association of Sociology, Vancouver, April.
1998 Brian D. MacLean, “‘Participatory Democracy’ or ‘Rural Fascism?’ The Politics of Land-Use Designations on Saturna Island, BC,” presented at the bi-annual meetings of the Western Association of Sociology, Vancouver, April.
1997 Brian D. MacLean and Dawn H. Currie, ‘Measuring Violence Against Women: The Interview as a Gendered Social Encounter,’ presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November 22.
1996 Brian D. MacLean and Walter DeKeseredy, ‘Left Realism and the Struggle for Social Justice,’ presented at the annual meetings of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, Kelowna, BC, May 9-12.
1996 Brian D. MacLean, Gurcharn Basran, and Charan Gill, ‘Farmworkers and Their Children in the Fraser Valley,’ presented at the annual meetings of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, Kelowna, BC, May 9-12.
Prior to 1996, there are 27 other items under this category that will be furnished upon request.
OTHER INVITED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
1999 Brian D. MacLean, ‘The need for an Institute for Studies in Aboriginal Self Governance.’ Aboriginal Peoples Council, Justice and Corrections Roundtable meeting, Grand Hotel, Kelowna, BC, Dec. 8.
1999 Brian D. MacLean, ‘Report on Aboriginal Justice Initiatives and How to Assess Them.’ Invited presentation to the Aboriginal Peoples Council, Justice and Corrections Roundtable meeting, Coast Stanley Park, Vancouver, Nov. 13.
1999 Brian D. MacLean, ‘Evaluating the Prison as an Immoral Institution: Some Analytical Comments.’ Invited Presentation to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Department of Criminal Justice Ethics Symposium on the Ethics of Prison, John Jay College, New York, NY, June.
1999 Brian D. MacLean, ‘Advocacy Research with Disenfranchised Populations: Violence Against Female Punjabi Farmworkers in the Rural Workplace.’ Invited presentation to the Policy Group on Men Studying Violence Against Women in Canada, Ministry of Health Canada, Ottawa. Feb. 23.
1998 Brian D. MacLean, ‘Preliminary Findings of the Saturna Island Crown Land-Use Survey.’ Invited presentation to the residents of Saturna Island, BC. Saturna Island Community Centre, May.
1996 Brian D. MacLean, ‘Recent Developments in North American Critical Criminology.’ Invited presentation to faculty and students of The Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Mar. 13.
There are 26 further items under this category prior to 1996. These will be furnished upon request.
UNION-RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Ombudsperson, Faculty Association, Kwantlen University College, 1995 – 1996.
Member of the Faculty Association Working Conditions Committee, Kwantlen University College, 1994 – 1995.
Member of The Faculty Association Negotiation Caucus, University of Saskatchewan, 1987 – 1988.
Faculty Association Representative for Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, 1986 – 1988.
Shop Foreman, National Association of Local Government Officers, London Borough Of Islington, 1984-85.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Criminology, Middlesex Polytechnic, Enfield, London, U.K. 1985 – present.
Associate Member, Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, 2000 - 2001
Member, The Women’s Division, American Society of Criminology, Nov. 1990 – 2001
Member, The Division on People of Colour and Crime, American Society of Criminology, Nov. 1996 – 2001
Managing Editor, Critical Criminology: An International Journal, 1995 – 2001
Production Editor, Humanity and Society, 1994 – 1996.
President, The Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology, February, 1990 – April, 1993
Member, Board of Directors, John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland, 1994 – 1995
Co-Editor, The Critical Criminologist, Nov., 1989 – Dec., 1993
Production Editor, The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Sept., 1989 – March 1995
Member, Editorial Board The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons July 1, 1988 – June, 1996
Member, The American Society of Criminology July 1, 1988 – 2001
Member, The Critical Division, American Society of Criminology, Nov. 1988 – 2001
Member, The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association 1988 – 1993
Production Editor, The Critical Criminologist Nov., 1988 – Dec., 1993
Member, Canadian Law and Society July 1, 1988 – 1993
Member, Socialist Studies July 1, 1988 – 1993
Chair, the Human Justice Collective July 1, 1987 – 1996
Managing Editor, the Journal of Human Justice July 1, 1987 – 1996
CURRENT RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
In addition to those items reported below as recent research, since 2000 I have been conducting long-term, non-funded fieldwork on a broad social history of marihuana use and legislation in Canada. This topic is huge and I have had to focus my efforts in a number of directions for which I plan to write a social-scientific trilogy and a series of scholarly articles all leading to a social justice orientation and analysis.
1. The first aspect of the analysis is a social history of marihuana use in Canada leading to a legal analysis of the current constitutional dilemma and the history of policing tied to the judicial developments. This analysis then identifies three different categories of marihuana production, organized crime, individual commercial, and individual medical.
2. The second aspect of the research is designed to contrast the ‘folk devil’ aspect of growers tied to policing literature about marihuana and organized crime with an ethnographic study that humanizes the subject. The ethnography studies people who are not members of a criminal organization that grow marihuana for commercial purposes. Site visits of grow rooms/gardens and interviews with individual subjects within this classification help to put a human face on these growers demonized by policing literature and popular media reports stemming from police knowledge. By way of contrast a different set of problems are identified and analyzed. Replacing punitive interventionist strategies with a harm reduction model is the key objective of this book.
3. There are now over 1200 people in Canada who have been issued exemptions to the prohibition of marihuana by the Minister of Health for medical need. In British Columbia alone, there are approximately an additional 4000 people who, while not licensed by Health Canada, have prescriptions from their doctors for the medical use of marihuana. These persons are served primarily by the Compassion Club, which grows and distributes marihuana to its members for bone fide medical use. The numbers here are even greater in Ontario. Because the Medical Marihuana Access Regulations (MMAR) currently remain in legal limbo, police departments have taken to raiding medical users with permits to grow rather than the organized criminals they claim to be at root of the problem. All of these developments are crucial to a sociological understanding of policing with the framework of a social justice orientation.
4. Fieldwork has allowed me to identify a number of topics that require attention for publication. For example, with the proliferation of legal growers under the medical exemption issued by Health Canada, the police have raided many legal medical users claiming that since the MMAR are not being enforced by Health Canada, the police are the de facto enforcement agency. The problem created here is that police still cling to the practice of exaggerating their seizures as a way to justify the policing costs and resource allocations in this direction. Now that the courts are awarding plaintiffs financial remuneration for medicines seized, it is imperative that a more objective process for evaluating the monetary value of seized marihuana is adopted. I am working on a co-edited primer that advances a methodology more appropriate to such evaluation exercises.
5. On a more theoretical level, my interest here revolves around the global changes in policing and security, particularly the shift from public to private policing and the implications for their ensuing merger to the sociology of policing. While most examining this shift do so from within a tradition inspired by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, few will argue that such changes are not premised by the move towards globalization. Hence, such an analysis fails, I argue, on the perception of panoptic social control at a cost effective level as a state expenditure. It would be more correct to acknowledge ‘security as a commodity,’ and the privatization of security produced in a process of the private accumulation of capital. In this way, contrary to a Foucaultian analysis, an analysis rooted in political economy can enjoy the explanatory fruit harvested when, rather than a cost to the state, security has been transformed into a profit-bearing commodity. My theoretical work then is centered on the kinds of theoretical tensions raised by trying to explain contemporary developments in policing through paradigms other than political economy such as postmodern sociology and liberal economic theory.
RECENT RESEARCH/SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
1. Co-Principal Researcher with Marcel Swain and UNN. A project funded by HRDC for $87,000 to investigate and report upon urban Aboriginal Homelessness in British Columbia. This project produced a profile of urban Aboriginal Homelessness by conducting a series of community forums in order to forge community partnerships in developing an Aboriginal homelessness strategy.
2. Research Consultant with the United Native Nations jointly to run a pilot project for the establishment of a Centre for Studies in Aboriginal Self-Governance. This project involved the exploration of opportunities for core funding, the crafting of several research proposals, the training of Aboriginal personnel, the establishment of post-secondary partnerships and recommendations for the daily operation of such a centre.
3. Research consultant for the Aboriginal Peoples Council, Justice and Corrections Roundtable. This project involved the gathering and reporting of information about Aboriginal Justice initiatives.
4. Principal Researcher, Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia: A Pilot Project To Estimate the Demographics of Peoples of Aboriginal Ancestries in British Columbia. This project was a seed project aimed to prepare a competitive research application in association with the UNN to conduct the enumeration of Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia.
5. Principal Researcher, The Saturna Island Crown Land Use Preferences Survey. Fieldwork commenced in 1997 to survey all landowners and residents of Saturna Island regarding land-use designations and the Official Community Planning process on Saturna Island.
6. The peace process in Northern Ireland. I have been in Northern Ireland as special consultant to the Northern Ireland Office and the Queen’s University, Belfast. The two key interests that emerged from this project are 1) The Politics of the peace process, and 2) the categorization and treatment of politically-motivated prisoners in Northern Ireland as they pertain to the peace process. This aspect involved the publication of three special journal editions dedicated to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
AREAS OF TECHNICAL RESEARCH INTEREST
1. Issues in social science research methodology.
2. Methodological issues in social survey research.
3. Methodological issues in the identification of rare elements of the population for survey sampling and ethnographic study.
4. Methodological issues in advocacy research.
5. Methodological issues in community research.
6. Methodological issues in ethnography and empowerment of the research subject.
7. Methodological issues in the study of social inequality and social justice.
8. Methodological issues in the participant observation/ethnography of minority populations.
OTHER AREAS OF SUBSTANTIVE RESEARCH INTEREST
1. Recent developments in the decriminalization of cannabis for medical use.
2. Drug policy and Harm Reduction Strategies
3, Political economy of security and policing
4. Crime surveys and victimological studies.
5. Violence against women.
6. Race, class, gender, and justice.
7. Politics of policing.
8. Urban Aboriginal studies.
7. Aboriginal self-governance.
9. Treaty and devolution processes in BC.
10. Politics of correctional reform.
REFERENCES
Furnished upon request
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