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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby (2022). Deciphering the Decline: A Computational Analysis of Two Decades of Canadian Newspaper Op-Eds on Freedom of Information. Canadian Journal of Communication, 47(2).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, Derek Silva (2022). Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. University of British Columbia Press.

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Alex Luscombe, Jamie Duncan, Kevin Walby (2022). Jumpstarting the Justice Disciplines: A Computational-Qualitative Approach to Collecting and Analyzing Text and Image Data in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies. Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Dick, Kevin Walby (2021). Algorithmic thinking in the public interest: navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to web scraping in the social sciences. Quality & Quantity.

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Abby Deshman, Alex Luscombe, Alexander McClelland (2021). COVID-19 and Law Enforcement in Canada: The Second Wave. Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project.

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Alex Luscombe, Alexander McClelland (2021). Policing the Pandemic: Counter-Mapping Policing Responses to COVID-19 across Canada. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Studies.

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Alex Luscombe, Alexander McClelland (2020). 'An extreme last resort': Monetary Penalties and the Policing of COVID-19 in Canada . Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, McGill University.

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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Alex Luscombe (2020). Race, Cannabis and the Canadian War on Drugs: An Examination of Cannabis Arrest Data by Race in Five Cities. International Journal of Drug Policy.

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Abby Deshman, Alexander McClelland, Alex Luscombe (2020). Stay Off the Grass: COVID-19 and Law Enforcement in Canada. Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project.

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2020). Freedom of Information Research and Cultural Studies: A Subterranean Affinity. Cultural Studies<->Critical Methodologies.

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Kevin Walby, Randy K. Lippert, Alex Luscombe (2020). Police Foundation Governance and Accountability: Corporate Interlocks and Private, Nonprofit Influence on Public Police. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 20(2).

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2019). Repertoires of Empirical Social Science and Freedom of Information Requests: Four Techniques for Analyzing Disclosures. Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design.

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2019). Freedom of Information and Social Science Research Design. Routledge Advances in Research Methods.

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2019). Using Freedom of Information Requests in Socio-Legal Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, and Criminology. Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 24).

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William Walters, Alex Luscombe (2019). Postsecrecy and Place: Secrecy research amidst the ruins of an atomic weapons research facility. Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork.

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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Alex Luscombe, Brandon Finlay (2019). Unequal Justice: Race and Cannabis Arrests in the Post‐Legal Landscape. High Time: The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada (pp. 113-141).

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2019). Freedom of Information Requests and Disclosures as Social Science Data. Sage Research Methods Foundations: An Encyclopedia.

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe, Randy K. Lippert (2018). Going to the Dogs? Police, Donations, and K9s. Policing: An International Journal, 41(6).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, Randy K. Lippert (2018). Police-Sponsorship Networks: Benign Ties or Relations of Private Influence?. Policing & Society, 28(5).

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Daniel Fridman, Alex Luscombe (2017). Gift-Giving, Disreputable Exchange, and the Management of Donations in a Police Department. Social Forces, 96(2).

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Kevin Walby, Randy K. Lippert, Alex Luscombe (2017). The Police Foundation’s Rise: Implications of Public Policing’s Dark Money. British Journal of Criminology, 58(4).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby (2017). Theorizing Freedom of Information: The Live Archive, Obfuscation, and Actor-Network Theory. Government of Information Quarterly, 34(3).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, Randy K. Lippert (2017). Online Readers’ Comments as Popular Texts: Public Opinions of Paid Duty Policing in Canada. Canadian Journal of Communication, 42(5).

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2017). Ethics Review and Freedom of Information Requests in Qualitative Research. Research Ethics, 14(4).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby, Randy K. Lippert (2017). Brokering Access Beyond the Border and in the Wild: Comparing Freedom of Information Law and Policy in Canada and the United States. Law & Policy, 39(3).

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William Walters, Alex Luscombe (2016). Hannah Arendt and the Art of Secrecy; Or, the Fog of Cobra Mist. International Political Sociology, 11(1).

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Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe (2016). Criteria for Quality in Qualitative Research and Use of Freedom of Information Requests in the Social Sciences. Qualitative Research, 17(5).

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Alex Luscombe (2016). Deception Declassified: The Social Organisation of Cover Storying in a Secret Intelligence Operation. Sociology, 52(2).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby (2014). High Policing and Access to Information. Police Practice & Research, 16(6).

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Alex Luscombe, Kevin Walby (2014). Occupy Ottawa, Conservation Officers, and Policing Networks in Canada’s Capital City. Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice, 56(3).

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