Patrick Parnaby
Associate Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Research Areas
- Policing
- Risk
- Stigma
- Crime prevention through environmental design
- Deviance
About
Patrick Parnaby is an Associate Professor of sociology who studies policing, deviant behaviour, risk and the sociology of stigma. At present, and in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Guelph Police Service, Dr. Parnaby is examining how risk is understood and communicated in the context of mental health crisis calls.
Keywords: policing, risk, deviant behaviour, stigma, CPTED
Select Publications & Achievements
Parnaby, P. (2025). The Nature of Stigma: Toward a Sociological Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology. Deviant Behavior, 1–15.
Is No Notoriety Enough?: Attaining Micro-fame Beyond the Mass Media, All American Massacre, Page Range: 162-173, Temple University United States of America.
Parnaby, P., & Broll, R. (2021). After 10–7: trauma, resilience and satisfaction with life among retired police officers. Policing : An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 44(2), 230–245.
Rethinking Role Residual: Retired Police Officers and the Inertia of Habitus, Canadian Review of Sociology, Volume 57, Issue 1, 1-20.
Parnaby, P., & Weston, C. (2020). Understanding The Shift: How Police Retirees Leave The Service. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 45(4), 291–312.
Kudla, D. & Parnaby, P. (2018). To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto. Social Media and Society, 1-13.
Parnaby, P. (2017). A subtle kind of certainty: Market dynamics and symbolic violence in professional financial planning. Pragmatics and Society, 8 (1), 85-106.
Parnaby, P. & Buffone, S. (2013). Darwin Meets the King: Blending sociology and evolutionary psychology to explain police deviance. Canadian Review of Sociology, 50 (4), 412-429.
Parnaby, P. & Leyden, M. (2011). Dirty Harry and the Station Queens: A Mertonian Analysis of Police Deviance. Policing and Society, 21 (3), 249-264.
Parnaby, P. (2011). Health and Finance: Exploring the parallels between health care delivery and professional financial planning. Journal of Risk Research, 14 (10), 1191-1205.