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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Steven Hayle
PhD

Associate Teaching Professor

Criminology and Justice

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Contact information

Charles Hall - Room 321
Downtown Oshawa
61 Charles Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 4X8

905.721.8668 ext. 5806

steven.hayle@ontariotechu.ca

Background

Dr. Steven Hayle joined Ontario Tech University in 2018. He previously taught in the Sociology Department at the University of Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Hayle is a comparative criminologist who studies and teaches about criminal justice systems, procedures, policies and practices from all over the world. The criminology courses he teaches are global in focus and scope, drawing on examples and case studies from across Canada and throughout the world. Comparative and historical analysis are central to his teaching philosophy.

Dr. Hayle’s area of expertise is drug policy and the ways in which it varies both within and across countries. For his dissertation, he drew on social constructionism and theories of social structure in order to investigate the development of harm reduction drug policies in Canada, England and Wales, and Scotland between the years 1900 and the present. He is currently researching the development and establishment of supervised injection sites in the United States. He also researches policing and the police worldwide. In particular, he studies the policing of marginalized populations and the practice of racial profiling.

Education

  • PhD, Sociology University of Toronto

Courses taught

  • Social Control
  • Policing and Security
  • Crime and Deviance
  • Drug Policy
  • Classical Sociological Theory
  • Introductory Sociology

Research and expertise

  • comparative criminal justice
  • globalization of justice
  • comparative drug policy analysis
  • harm reduction
  • comparative policing
  • comparative youth justice policy
  • moral panics

Involvement

  • Selected publications

    Hayle, Steven (June 7, 2017- online). “A Tale of Drug Policy in Two Canadian Cities: Comparing and Contrasting Supervised Consumption Site Policymaking in Toronto and Vancouver”. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy.

    Hayle, Steven; Wortley, Scot; and Tanner, Julian. “Race, Street Life, and Policing: Investigating Police Racial Profiling of Black High School Students and Street Youth Living in Toronto”. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 58(3).

    Hayle, Steven. 2015. “Comparing Drug Policy Windows Internationally: Drug Consumption Room Policy Making in Canada and England and Wales”. Contemporary Drug Problems, 42(1):20-37.

    Hayle, Steven. 2013. “Folk Devils without Moral Panics: Discovering Concepts in the Sociology of Deviance”. International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, 6(2):1125-1137.