Dr. Kevin Haggerty

Professor of Criminology and Sociology, University of Alberta

Kevin D. Haggerty is editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology and book review editor of the international journal Surveillance & Society. He is Professor of sociology and criminology and a member of the executive team for the New Transparency Major Collaborative Research Initiative. His recent work has been in the are of surveillance, governance, policing and risk. In addition to authoring numerous peer reviewed articles he has authored, co-authored or co-edited Policing the Risk Society (1997 Oxford University Press) Making Crime Count (2001 University of Toronto Press) and The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility (2004 University of Toronto Press) Surveillance & Democracy (2008 Routledge) Security Games: Surveillance and Security at Mega-Events (2010 Routledge) and the Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (2012 with Kirstie Ball and David Lyon). He and his co-author (Aaron Doyle) are currently writing the book 67 Ways to Screw Up in Graduate School which conveys a series of professional lessons for the next generation of graduate students.