Policing Protest: Who Gets to Break the Law?
The criminalization of peaceful protests as violent conduct has become an increasingly concerning issue in Canada. The imposition of criminal language on protest action delegitimizes activism by framing it as violence, and in turn legitimizes police intervention against activists. The legal and rhetorical criminalization of protest, how the justice system redefines democratic participation as disorder and the proportionality between protest tactics and injustice they challeng
Intersection of Police Work, the Charter and Criminal Law in Canada
This article was written to review three cases in the area of criminal law and to bring reflection to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I
