Jean-Paul Brodeur was the director of the Centre international de criminologie comparée/ International Centre for Comparative Criminologie at the Université de Montréal. He was a past president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Intelligence and Security (CASIS). He was awarded a Killam scholarship (2003/2004) and was a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1989. He published books and articles on policing, sentencing and politically motivated deviance. He was also research director for several commissions of inquiry (federal and Québec provincial). His most recent books are Democracy, Law and Security (2003, with Peter Gill and Dennis Töllborg) and Citoyens et Délateurs (with Fabien Jobard). Jean-Paul Brodeur passed away on 26 April 2010.