Carla Cesaroni
PhD
Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Criminology and Justice
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Contact information
Bordessa Hall
- Room 314
Downtown Oshawa
55 Bond Street East
Oshawa, ON
905.721.8668
Background
Dr. Carla Cesaroni received her PhD from the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto in Ontario. She joined Ontario Tech University in 2005.
Education
- PhD, Criminology University of Toronto
Courses taught
- Punishment and Society
- The Prison Experience
- Punishment and Imprisonment
- Green Criminology
Research and expertise
Research interests:
- Experiences and adjustment of boys and young men to incarceration.
- Young people's perceptions of their interactions with police.
- Trauma and masculinities among incarcerated young men.
- Prison chaplaincy
- Religion and prison life
Research supervision areas:
- corrections/penology
- youth justice
Dr. Cesaroni has supervised student papers and projects on topics such as:
- The experience of partners of incarcerated men.
- The policing of terrorism.
- The effect of stereotype of offender reintegration.
- Youth correctional officer opinions of relationships with youth.
- Examining the utility of pre-charge diversion programs.
- Trans individuals experience of the criminal justice system.
- Measuring success amongst high-risk youth.
- Youth justice policy implementation.
- Trans individuals perceptions of the police
- Masculinity and reintegration
- Women's reproductive rights (sterilization)
- LGB individuals well being and the "It Gets Better" campaign
