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Welcome to the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
The Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies is a research and teaching unit at the University of Toronto. Founded in 1963 by Prof. John Edwards, the Centre’s faculty and students study crime, order and security from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches.
With backgrounds in sociology, history, law, psychology, philosophy and political science, the faculty are actively engaged in Canadian and international criminological research.
The Centre's library (the Criminology Information Service) houses the leading Canadian research collection of criminological material, consisting of more than 25, 000 books, journals, government reports, statistics and other documents.
The Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies offers a graduate program for masters and doctoral students. The undergraduate criminology program is administered by Woodsworth College.
News and Events
New Centre Newsletter - March 2012
In this issue:
- The Beginning of Criminological Research At U of T: Fighting For Academic Freedom
- Centre Librarian Tom Finlay Retires
- Hold the Date! Tuesday November 20, 2012: Centre Anniversary Event
- Conference Honouring The Work of Richard Ericson Now Available On Web
- Centre Research on Police Racial Profiling Draws Attention
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Warmest congratulations to PhD students Rashmee Singh and Sarah Turnbull!
On April 24, Sarah Turnbull successfully defended her dissertation, a study of the National Parole Board's policies and practices on 'diversity', aboriginality, and gender. Kelly Hannah-Moffat was the supervisor. Congratulations Dr Turnbull! And Rashmee Singh, who's completing a dissertation on the work of ethnocultural agencies which serve battered women and broker their contact with the criminal justice system, has just accepted a tenure track job in the Sociology and Legal Studies department at the University of Waterloo, for a position designated as "Gender and the Law". Rashmee will defend this summer.
| HOLD THE DATE!! TUESDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2012: CENTRE ANNIVERSARY EVENT A major event is being planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Centre, under the theme of "50 years of criminal justice policy". At this event we will also be honouring Tony Doob on his formal retirement in January of this year (though our graduates and friends will not be surprised to know that he continues to be found in his office, with the door open, almost every day). All graduates of the Centre and of the undergraduate criminology program will be invited to attend, and we hope that many of you take the opportunity to visit us. An announcement with the details of the day's events will be sent later on to the newsletter email list and posted on the Centre's website. |
Centre Junior Fellow publishes important book on Human Trafficking
Antonela Arhin, a visiting junior fellow at our Centre (who is also the executive officer at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies) is a noted expert on human trafficking and child labour. She and Prof. Ato Quayson have just published a book in the Routledge series on transnational crime and corruption, Labour Migration, Human Trafficking, and Multinational Corporations: The Commodification of Illicit Flows (New York, Routledge, 2012) that may well change the terms of the often misinformed international debates on human trafficking. For more information click here.
