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Mariana Valverde

Mariana Valverde, FRSC

  • B.A. (Brock), M.A., Ph.D. (Social and Political Thought, York)
  • Professor of Criminology
  • Email Address: m.valverde@utoronto.ca

Mariana Valverde carries out both theoretical and empirical studies of legal mechanisms, especially those involved in moral and sexual regulation and those that are distinctly local or municipal.

Recent & Forthcoming Publications:

  • "Jurisdiction and scale: Using law's technicalities as theoretical resources." Social & Legal Studies Vol.18 no.2, 139-157.
  • "Laws of the street" City and Society 2009
  • "Questions of security: a framework for research" Theoretical Criminology 2011
  • "The Crown in a multicultural age: the changing epistemology of (post)colonial sovereignty" Social and Legal Studies 2011
  • "Seeing like a city: the dialectic of premodern and modern knowledge formats in urban governance" Law and Society Review 2011
  • The Force of Law (popular book, Groundwood Press 2010)
  • Everyday law on the street: city governance in an age of diversity (University of Chicago Press, October 2012)

Current research:

  • Theoretical work on law, space, and time, to be collected in a book entitled Chronotopes of law
  • A historical sociology of moral regulation and urban law and order, studying how major cities (London and New York, mainly) used legal and policing tools to separate 'good' from 'bad' neighbourhoods in the century of the suburb (1870s to 1970s)
  • A current-day study of the sociolegal aspects of public-private partnerships in urban development projects in the Greater Toronto Area

Criminology Courses Taught:

  • CRI 1050H. Theories of Crime and Social Order.
  • CRI 3256H. Law, Space and Regulation.