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www.derekcrim.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Derek Silva is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at Western University, focusing on critical sociology and criminology, sport, punishment, terrorism and \u2018radicalization\u2019 studies. His peer-reviewed work can be found in Punishment & Society<\/em>, Crime, Media, Culture<\/em>, Sociology of Sport Journal<\/em>, Sociological Forum<\/em>, Race & Class<\/em>, and Educational Gerontology<\/em>. As part of an ongoing public sociology campaign, Dr. Silva has also published numerous articles in major media outlets such as Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Jacobin Magazine, The Baffler, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and co-hosts a podcast on labour, harm, and injustice in the sporting world called The End of Sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Luscombe, Alex, Kevin Walby and Derek Silva (eds.). Forthcoming. Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deflem, Mathieu and Derek Silva (eds.). 2021. Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship (Volume 26). Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance. Bingley, UK. Emerald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek and Mathieu Deflem (eds.). 2020. Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization (Volume 25). Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance. Bingley, UK: Emerald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deflem, Mathieu and Derek M.D. Silva (eds.). 2019. Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Volume 24). Sociology of Crime Law and Deviance. Bingley, UK: Emerald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal Articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sardoc, Mitja, C. A. J. Coady, Vittorio Bufacchi, Fathali Moghaddam, Quassim Cassam, Derek Silva, Nenad Miscevic, Gorazd Andrejc, Zdenko Kodelja, Boris Vezjak, Michael A. Peters, and Marek Tesar. 2021. \u201cPhilosophy of Education in a New Key: On Radicalization and Violent Extremism.\u201d Educational Philosophy and Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy, Liam and Derek Silva. 2020. \u201cDiscipline That Hurts\u201d: Punitive Logics and Governance in Sport. Punishment & Society 22(5): 658-680.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy, Liam and Derek Silva. 2020. \u201cKnuckle-Dragging Thugs\u201d: Civilizing Processes and the Biosocial Revolution in the National Hockey League.\u201d Crime, Media, Culture 17(1): 105-126.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castleton, Alex, Alejandro Cid, and Derek Silva. 2020. \u201cFor Older Folks Like Me, These Things Are Over Us\u2026\u201d: The Challenge of Embedding iPads in Everyday Life Within a Long-term Care Facility.\u201d Educational Gerontology 46(4): 167-181.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy, Liam, Derek Silva, William Cipolli, and Madelaine Coehlo. 2019. \u201cWe Are All Broncos: Hockey, Tragedy, and the Formation of Canadian National Identity.” Sociology of Sport Journal 36(4): 189-202.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek, William Cipolli, and Roy Bower. 2018. “In Search of a Five-Star: The Centrality of Body Discourses in the Scouting of High School Football Athletes.” Sociology of Sport Journal 35(3): 324-333.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek. 2018. “Radicalisation: The Journey of a Concept Revisited.” Race & Class 59(4): 34-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek. 2017. “The Othering of Muslims: Discourses of Radicalization in the New York Times, 1969-2014.” Sociological Forum 32(1): 138-161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Chapters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek and Mathieu Deflem. 2020. \u201cExporting Preemption: The Transnational Diffusion of Counter-Radicalisation Policing Strategies.\u201d Pp. 179-200 in The Development of Transnational Policing: Past, Present and Future, edited by J.L.M McDaniel, K. E. Stonard & D.J. Cox. Albingdon, UK: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek. 2019 “Police and Radicalization.” Pp. 249-262 in The Handbook of Social Control, edited by M. Deflem. Walden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deflem, Mathieu, Derek Silva, and Anna S. Rogers. 2018. “Domestic Spying: A Comparative Historical Perspective.” Pp. 109-125 in the Cambridge Handbook of Social Problems, Edited by A. Javier Trevino. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silva, Derek. 2018. \u201cCommitting Sociology in an Age of \u201cFake News\u201d: Mass Media, Twitter and the Struggle for Knowledge in the Public Sphere.\u201d Pp. 87-120 in Sociological Theory in Scientific Perspective, edited by J. Michalski. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deflem, Mathieu and Derek Silva. “Comparative and Historical Analysis.” Forthcoming chapter in the Encyclopedia of Research Methods and Statistical Techniques in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Edited by J.C. Barnes and D.R. Forde. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popular Writing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s never been a better time for college athletes to unionize.\u201d The Guardian, May 27, 2021. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019I signed my life to rich white guys\u2019: Athletes on the racial dynamics of college sports.\u201d The Guardian, March 17, 2021. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA ruthlessly exploitative college football season finally draws to a close.\u201d The Guardian, January 11, 2021. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlayers rip a \u2018corrupt\u2019 college football season.\u201d The Daily Beast, January 10, 2021. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollege basketball needs to shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u201d TIME Magazine, December 21, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth football players and fans are sacrificial lambs for money-hungry universities.\u201d Jacobin Magazine, October 28, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollege football feels all too normal during the pandemic.\u201d TIME Magazine, October 22, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCollege football in a pandemic reveals our capacity for Trumpism.\u201d The Baffler Magazine, October 19, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRed-Scare rhetoric isn\u2019t gone from American sport.\u201d Jacobin Magazine, August 30, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCancelling the college football season is about union busting, not health.\u201d The Guardian, August 12, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2019We need help\u2019: College football players respond to COVID-19 on campus.\u201d The Guardian, August 3, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanceling the college-football season isn\u2019t enough.\u201d The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 17, 2020. (w\/ Nathan Kalman-Lamb & Johanna Mellis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Derek","cu_people_last_name":"Silva","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[40],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-16078","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Sociology (University of South Carolina); M.A. Sociology (Carleton University); B.A. Criminology (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"dsilva28@uwo.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derekcrim","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32718,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/16078\/revisions\/32718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=16078"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=16078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}