...Zachary Towns; Rosemary Ricciardelli; Kevin Cyr Purpose The purpose of our article is to explicate how researchers in Canada can learn from our methodology to work in collaboration with police services and foster research collaborations with “hard-to-reach” groups. Police ERTs have been criticized...

... to recognise her “conspicuous invisibility” (Quinlan, 2008), which, as important as that may be, may lead to critical intelligence and insight gathering. As a police officer put to us one day, shadowing (and, in a way, participant observation as well) “made you so much part of the furniture that you get...