About
Dr. Patrick Lalonde conducts research in the area of policing, police governance, border security, and surveillance. He previously served through FSWEP as a Border Services Officer with Canada Border Services Agency. Dr. Lalonde also previously served for four years as a Provincial Board Member on the New Westminster Police Board and as a Director and Executive on the BC Association of Police Boards. He previously taught at Okanagan College and the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Lalonde is willing to supervise Honours Criminology students conducting research in the areas of policing and border security. Interested students should reach out via email to schedule a meeting.
Dr. Lalonde is also open to research, publishing, peer review, book review, MA/PhD defence committee membership, board membership, and collaboration opportunities.
Education and credentials
- PhD, University of Waterloo
- MA, University of Windsor
- BA (Hons.), University of Windsor
Research summary
Research interests include Canadian border security, surveillance, policing, and the technologization and simulation of migration/mobility.
Publications and other research outputs
- Lalonde, P.C. (2023). Border Security Meets Black Mirror: Perceptions of Technologization from the Windsor Borderland. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 38(5), 723-744.
- Galuppe, O., Lalonde, P., Nguyen, H., & Schulenberg, J. (2019). A randomized trial testing deviant modeling, peer gender, and theft: replication and extension. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 15, 421-439.
- Lalonde, P.C. (2019). Canadian Border Security: Examining Border Services Officer and Traveller Knowledge Concerning Interaction Narratives and Technologization Within the Windsor Borderland. PhD Dissertation.
- Lalonde, P.C. (2019). Border officer training in Canada: identifying organizational governance technologies. Policing & Society, 29(5), 579-598.
- Lalonde, P.C. (2018). Cyborg Work: Borders as Simulation. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(6), 1361-1380.
- Lalonde, P. (2012). Exploring the Construction of Security in the Canada-United States Action Plan on Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness Consultations. MA Thesis.