“The University of Toronto continues to house one of the leading Centres for the analysis of the intersections of criminal justice and law across the globe.”
— George Pavlich, Sally E. Merry, Delores Jones-Brown. UTQAP Cyclical Review: Report (2018) p.2
Our faculty members’ substantive research interests currently include:
- Prisons and imprisonment
- Gender and punishment
- The effects of race on criminal justice processes
- Judicial reform in Russia and Eastern Europe
- Variations in homicide patterns across the twentieth century
- Changing notions of “risk” in probation and parole decision-making
- Bail court decision-making
- International criminal law and war crimes prosecutions; Human rights regimes
- International migration and its relation to crime and victimization
- Municipal by-law enforcement and municipal dispute resolution mechanisms
- The policing of internal migration in Russia
- Harm reduction approaches in relation to illegal drugs