2022. Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. UBC Press. (with K. Walby, D. Silva)
- Accolades: The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2022
- Reviews: Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Law Library Review
2023. Access to information research in the digital era. Canadian Public Administration. (with J. Duncan)
2022. Algorithmic thinking in the public interest: navigating technical, legal, and ethical hurdles to web scraping in the social sciences. Quality & Quantity, 56(3), 1023-1044. (with K. Dick, K. Walby)
- Interviewed: Michael Eisenstein. Need web data? Here’s how to harvest them. Nature (2022).
2022. Jumpstarting the justice disciplines: A computational-qualitative approach to collecting and analyzing text and image data in criminology and criminal justice studies. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 33(2), 151-171. (with J. Duncan, K. Walby)
- Supplement: https://alexlusco.github.io/jsjd-supplement/
- OSF preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/4nhd6
2022. Evidence of High Policing Pluralization in Canada. Pp. 221-250 in Changing of the Guards: Private Influences, Privatization, and Criminal Justice in Canada. UBC Press.
2021. Race, cannabis and the Canadian war on drugs: An examination of cannabis arrest data by race in five cities. International Journal of Drug Policy, 91. (with A. Owusu-Bempah)
2020. Policing the pandemic: Tracking the policing of COVID-19 across Canada. SocArXiv. (with A. McClelland)
- Project page: https://www.policingthepandemic.ca/
2018. Deception declassified: The social organisation of cover storying in a secret intelligence operation. Sociology, 52(2), 400-415.
2018. The police foundation’s rise: Implications of public policing’s dark money. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(4), 824-844. (with K. Walby, R.K. Lippert)
2017. Hannah Arendt and the art of secrecy; or, the fog of Cobra Mist. International Political Sociology, 11(1), 5-20. (with W. Walters)
2017. Gift-giving, disreputable exchange, and the management of donations in a police department. Social Forces, 96(2), 507-528. (with D. Fridman)
2017. Brokering access beyond the border and in the wild: Comparing freedom of information law and policy in Canada and the United States. Law & Policy, 39(3), 259-279. (with K. Walby, R.K. Lippert)