Faculty

Robert Ame
Associate Professor
Fellow, Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa

• Comparative youth justice
• Children’s rights
• Crimes against humanity
• Truth and reconciliation commissions
• Transitional justice

Dan Antonowicz
Associate Professor

• Offender rehabilitation
• Psychology of crime
• Road rage

Tony Christensen
Assistant Professor

• Symbolic interactionism and social construction of crime

Erin Dej
Assistant Professor

• Homelessness
• Precariously housed
• Criminalization of marginalized groups
• Mental Health
• Qualitative methodology

Ken Dowler
Associate Professor

• Media and crime
• Organized crime

Judy Eaton
Associate Professor, Psychology

• Apology, forgiveness and restorative justice
• Victims and criminal justice

Lauren Eisler
Inter-Faculty Associate Dean, Academic Development

• Institutional control of disadvantage of youth
• Constructions of youth culture as criminogenic
• Theories of crime

Thomas Fleming
Professor

• Theory
• Law, media and crime
• Homicide

Stacey Hannem
Associate Professor
Chair, Criminology

• Stigma and marginality
• Families and the criminal justice system
• Sex work
• Family violence
• Canadian justice policy

Raymond Izarali
Associate Professor

• International crime and justice
• Terrorism and security
• Globalization
• Theories of human rights
• The Caribbean

Nikolai Kovalev
Associate Professor

• Comparative criminal justice
• Criminal law
• Criminal procedure and rights
• Jury trial

Debra Langan
Assistant Professor

• Violence in intimate relations
• Policing

Jennifer Lavoie
Assistant Professor

• Mental health and justice
• Stress, coping and violence
• Quantitative research methods

James Popham
Assistant Professor

• Theories of internet-based deviance and cybercrime
• Community-based approaches to social justice
• Criminological theory

Kim P. Roberts
Professor

• Children’s eyewitness testimony
• Children’s memory and learning

Carrie B. Sanders
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator, Criminology

• Policing practices
• Police cultures
• Big data, crime and intelligence analysis
• Pre-crime
• Community mobilization
• Public criminology
• Qualitative methodologies

Andrew Welsh
Associate Dean, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences

• Media constructions of crime
• Forensic mental health and justice
• Aboriginal justice

Staff

Janet Wissink
Graduate Program Assistant