Professors
Shahid Alvi, PhD
Professor
- Hate crime
- Social exclusion
- Violence against immigrant women
- Youth crime
- Left realism
- Technology and education
- Theoretical Criminology
- Political Economy of Crime
Carla Cesaroni, PhD
Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
- Adjustment of individuals to incarceration
- Role of punishment in the public sphere
- Corrections/penology
- Youth justice
Wesley Crichlow, PhD
Professor
Critical Race Intersectional Theorist
Critical Race Intersectional Theorist
- Black LGBTQ criminology reentry
- Black gender and Caribbean masculinities
- Critical equity and diversity studies
- Critical race theory
- #BlackLivesMatter race and criminal injustice
- Anti-black racism and decolonization
- Alternative criminal justice rehabilitation
Karla Dhungana-Sainju, PhD
Associate Professor
Women in Research Council Chair
Women in Research Council Chair
- Corrections and sentencing
- Mass incarceration and correctional control
- Prisoner re-entry
- Gender and crime
- Women’s imprisonment
- Electronic monitoring of offenders
- Traditional and cyber bullying
- Prisoner re-entry
- Policy evaluations
Steven Downing, PhD
Associate Professor
- Criminal and deviant subcultures
- Sociological theories of crime
- Theories of justice
Tyler Frederick, PhD
Associate Professor
- Community experiences of people with psychiatric disabilities
- Mental health
- Street life and subsistence choices
- The experiences of LGBTQ homeless young people
- Youth crime
- Youth homelessness
Jordan Harel, PhD
Senior Teaching Professor
- Corporate crime
- Financial crime
- Organizational and occupational deviance/crime
- White-collar crime
Steven Hayle, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Ronald Hinch, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
- Policing of violent crime
- Criminological theory
- Food crime
- Green criminology
- Policing violent crime
- Serial murder
Olga Marques, PhD
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Director
Graduate Program Director
- Sexuality, sex, and sexual deviance
- pornography and Sex Work
- Carceral Experiences
- Indigenous criminology
- Media representations of offenders and victims
- Convict Criminology and Thug Criminology
Amir Mostaghim, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
- Consumption
- Drugs
- Gender
- Identity Development
- Post-modern theory
- Race
- Youth Subculture
Christopher O'Connor, PhD
Associate Professor
- Youth crime, truancy, and school-to-work transitions
- Auto theft, technology and crime
- Citizen attitudes toward the police
- Energy security, oil, crime and boomtowns
- Citizenship and youth councils
Barbara Perry, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre on Hate Bias and Extremism
Director, Centre on Hate Bias and Extremism
- Hate Crime
- Policing diversity
- First Nations and justice
- Incarceration
- Race and justice
- Sexualities and justice
- Terrorism/extremism
Kanika Samuels Wortley, PhD
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in Systemic Racism, Technology and Criminal Justice
Canada Research Chair in Systemic Racism, Technology and Criminal Justice
- Race, racism and the criminal justice system
- Critical race theory
- Predictive AI technologies within criminal justice processes
Hannah Scott, PhD
Professor
Undergraduate Program Director
Undergraduate Program Director
- Homelessness
- Victimology, victims of crime vulnerable populations
- Homicide studies
- Serial and mass murder
- Gender differences in criminal behaviour
- Evaluation research
- Canadian drug courts and other diversion program evaluation
Phillip Shon, PhD
Professor
- Parricide
- Intrafamily homicide
- Individual psychology and criminology
Vivian Stamatopoulos, PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
- Child and youth-based caregiving
- Long-term care (LTC)
- Young carers
Arshia U. Zaidi, PhD
Associate Professor
- Intimate partner violence survivors (IPV)
- Issues of immigration, assimilation, acculturation
- Race, gender, sexuality and family generational issues
- Survivors of elderly abuse
- Power of information communication technology/social media in IPV and immigrant youth
- Methodological issues in the field (insider/outsider: community partnerships)
James Walsh, PhD
Associate Professor
- Surveillance, security and social control
- Borders, mobility and migration
- Law and society
- Crime and media
- Terrorism
- Moral panic