Summary
"This is a critical analysis of the intelligence process used by Canadian law enforcement in the policing of organized crime. Drawing on a constructionist perspective supplemented by critical race theory, Foucault's concepts of power-knowledge, governmentality and Marxist criminology, it is argued that commonsense knowledge about organized crime is historically linked to ethnicity. This knowledge is (re)produced within and through the intelligence process. An extensive critical discourse analysis of materials produced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada between 1996 and 2006 identifies representations of "what" organized crime is and "who" are identified as priorities. An analysis of the intelligence process drawing on interviews with law enforcement personnel situates this discourse within the context of processes and practices. The goal is to illuminate how the discourse and related processes are both constituted by and contribute towards processes of ethnicization and criminalization."--Abstract.