Katharina Maier
@KathMaier
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criminologist @uwinnipeg | punishment | mass supervision | violence | drugs | poverty | crisis | law | mom of 3
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined November 2018
🧾 What happens when the law takes your last belongings? Drs. @mitra_mokhtari, Greene, @KathMaier & @UrbanikMarta’s s #Socius study shows how everyday enforcement deepens #Homelessness—not through arrest, but through loss. Quiet #StateViolence. Read: https://t.co/6ReDp5Ab0j
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Pleased to see our paper published in @CultureCrime. Here, Steven Kohm and I explore the relationship between moral panics, online firestorms, and penal fantasies.
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In 2018–2019, there was a surge of local news media coverage in Winnipeg, Canada about what news media described as “brazen” liquor store theft. Online discussi...
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How do unhoused community members experience police volunteer groups? Read our new paper in Policing & Society https://t.co/mNKq1ocEQH
@CGreenePhD @UrbanikMarta and Kaitlyn Hunter
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Championed as an economic strategy to enhance community safety and reduce the need for formal police response to social disorder, volunteer policing groups have become a common sight in many urban ...
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NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 here, my exceptional MA student, Rachel Geldart, @CGreenePhD, @KathMaier & I examine how unhoused PWUD experience private security & how they *desire* private security in public parks to “do their job.” https://t.co/MA4icnyGjS
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Private security guards are increasingly supplementing public police in the policing of urban parks. In the context of this expansion, little is known about how...
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Here, @KathMaier , @CGreenePhD and I add some nuance to the literature on the role private security officials *can* play in assisting our most marginalized and unhoused community members, including those who use drugs. Featured in Social Problems
Very pleased to share our new article out in @socprobsjournal examining the role of private security in the governance of drugs and homelessness. https://t.co/d0oCu8514B
@UrbanikMarta @CGreenePhD
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Very pleased to share our new article out in @socprobsjournal examining the role of private security in the governance of drugs and homelessness. https://t.co/d0oCu8514B
@UrbanikMarta @CGreenePhD
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Abstract. Relationships between private security and People Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) are largely portrayed in negative, controlling, and punitive te
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Canada must recognize anti-homeless attacks as hate crimes
theconversation.com
Being homeless compounds the risk factors that make people more vulnerable to hate-motivated attacks.
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Thanks to @ConversationCA for covering our research on why anti-homeless attacks must be recognized and treated as hate crimes. https://t.co/KQJK6UcyIA
@UrbanikMarta @ECtetrault @CGreenePhD
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Being homeless compounds the risk factors that make people more vulnerable to hate-motivated attacks.
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Excited to see our new article out in The British Journal of Criminology, exploring unhoused community members’ experiences of hate victimization https://t.co/1SlfgSelSH
@UrbanikMarta @ECtetrault @CGreenePhD
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Abstract. Advocates and academics have increasingly called on governments to recognize anti-homeless violence as a hate crime and type of domestic extremis
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Next Thursday @ASCRM41 I’m discussing how poverty & homelessness make people more vulnerable to political violence, which hate crime approaches often overlook. Based on an upcoming piece in @BritSocCrim with my great co-authors @UrbanikMarta, @KathMaier, @CGreenePhD. #ASCPhilly23
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Along with @CGreenePhD & @KathMaier we have conduced 450+ interviews and spent time “deep hanging out” with People Experiencing Homelessness across 9 Canadian cities and 4 provinces. We took a broad approach to our work, asking about the street community, victimization,
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Walls to Bridges info session, Riddell Hall Atrium, University of Winnipeg, 10am-1pm, Mar 14, 2023. We will have pamphlets for Walls to Bridges at UW. We will have information about our spring term classes...
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Our next @Punishment_CRN Digital Speaker Series will be on Thurs, Mar. 9 @ 1:00p Eastern Time with @TasseliMcKay presenting "The Time Is (Never) Right for Reparations." Presentation via zoom!
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We are extending the deadline for our CfP! Please feel free to once again consider, retweet and/or recirculate with your networks and those who would be interested! @robsoncrim @UofRegina @UofRArts @robsonhall @QueerCrimASC @ASC_DCS @BritSocCrim
🎙️ Call for Papers! 🎙️ Richard Jochelson (@UMLawDean) and I are excited to announce our next book project, and we are seeking contributions for this timely and warranted edited volume. Please feel free to retweet/circulate with your networks! Abstract deadline: Feb. 27th!
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Very happy to share this paper in @LSI_Journal about how parole officers think and feel about their work and penal authority.
Parole officers are central to the penal system. Yet research has largely been limited to how they govern ex-prisoners. A new study in LSI by @KathMaier, @R_Ricciardelli, and @markdavidnorman offers insight in how they experience their work. #LSIFirstView
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This is…interesting. We have research from other cities/towns that have implemented this, where unhoused community members have shared highly varied experiences with private security officials.
The @cityoftoronto is set to award a contract for private security patrol parks for unhoused people. The cost of the this in year one? $2,440,160. This is a cost in addition to $48 mil for police, $53 mil for #TTC special constables, $1.7 mil/month for 80 police on #TTC ...
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Very proud to share @Ayo_Laniyonu and my new publication on racial and gendered disparities of risk assessment scores assigned to federally incarcerated individuals in Canada. It's open access - so give it a read! https://t.co/6vqqvEBhHX
journals.sagepub.com
In Canada, all federally incarcerated individuals are required to complete a number of actuarial risk assessments upon entering prison which influence the secur...
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Turning Point says the government announcement was unexpected. "We were surprised by this decision and are still unsure of its rationale," says Carmichael. They were working towards a permanent supervised consumption site in Red Deer. #abpoli
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