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Articles by: Prof Chris Schneider

The dangers of Québec’s pandemic curfew and the expansion of police discretionary powers

Policing and the pandemic

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19th January 2022

Prof Chris Schneider, Brandon University

OPINION: Québec is currently experiencing its second province-wide pandemic curfew, introduced at the end of December in response to the spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant; but for Brandon University’s Professor Christopher Schneider, the new restrictions bring with them a dangerous expansion in police discretionary powers that could lead to the inconsistent and unfair application of enforcement.

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Prof Chris Schneider
Professor of Sociology

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Christopher J. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Brandon University, whose research and publications have focused largely on information technologies and related changes to police work. He has written or collaborated on six books, including Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media, and has published dozens of academic journal articles, book chapters, and essays. Dr Schneider has received award recognition for his research, teaching, and service contributions. In 2020, he received an Emerald Literati Outstanding Author Contribution Award for his 2017 Couch-Stone Symposium keynote address published in 2019 in Studies in Symbolic Interaction. A frequent contributor to media, Schneider’s work has appeared in hundreds of news segments and reports, including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, NBC News, and Chicago’s WGN-TV.