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Note: Talks are from 12:30 to 2 PM in the boardroom (room 265), beginning at 12:30. All seminars begin with a light lunch at noon in the lounge area of the Centre. Further details will be sent by email as they become available.

Forthcoming Seminars

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

• Speaker: Laura Gomez, School of Law, UCLA
• Topic: The Next Generation of Sociolegal Scholarship on Race and Racism: Connecting How We Operationalize "Race" to its Conceptualization as Social Construct
• (co-sponsored with the Centre for the Study of the United States)
• [4pm, Ericson Seminar Room]

Thursday, April 19, 2012

• Speaker: Sandra Bucerius, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto; Sara Thompson, Dept. of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Ryerson University; Mark Luguya, Pathways Canada
• Topic: "This is No Community No More": The Unintended Consequences of Revitalization on Community and Crime in Regent Park
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Recent Seminars

Friday, March 23, 2012 - CANCELLED

• Speaker: Steve Herbert, Dept. of Geography/Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington, Seattle
• Topic: Adrift in a Sea of Uncertainty: Compliance, Coercion and Endangered Whales
• (co-sponsored with the Centre for the Study of the United States)
• [2pm, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place), Room 108N]

Thursday, March 15, 2012

• Speaker: Daniela Piana, Dept. of Political Science, University of Bologna
• Topic: Cultures of Prosecution in the Regions of Italy: Realizing the Right to a Fair Trial
• (co-sponsored with Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies)
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

• Speaker: Lee Ann Fujii, Dept. of Political Science, University of Toronto
• Topic: Gangbanging and Spectacle Lynchings: Examining Performances of Identity and Violence
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

• Speaker: Jooyoung Lee, Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto
• Topic: Wounded: Life after the Shooting
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Monday, January 30, 2012

• Speaker: Tony Doob, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, emeritus
• Topic: Richard Ericson's Making Crime: The Prequel (Director's Cut)
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Friday, December 9, 2011

• Speaker: Ernie Drucker, Professor Emeritus and former Director of Public Health and Policy Research, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University; Scholar in Residence, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• Topic: A Plague of Prisons: Lessons for Canada from the U.S. Experience
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

• Speaker: Michael Kempa, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa
• Topic: The Political Economy of Private Security: Regulation, Governance and Democracy
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

• Speaker: Gilles Favarel-Garrigues, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po, Paris
• Topic: Policing Economic Crime in Russia from the Soviet to the Post-Soviet Era (co-sponsored with Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies)
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Thursday, November 10, 2011

• Speaker: Laurence Ralph, Department of African American Studies, Harvard University
• Topic: Violence and Mobility in a Chicago Street Gang (co-sponsored with Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies)
• [4 pm, JHB 100 (Jackman Humanities Building, Bloor and St. George)]

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

• Speaker: Joshua Page, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
• Topic: What's Possible? A Union's Less Obvious Effects on Criminal Punishment (co-sponsored with Department of Sociology)
• [4 pm, Department of Sociology (725 Spadina Avenue), Room 240]

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

• Speaker: Troy Riddell, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
• Topic: Excluding Evidence and Sentencing: What Explains Judicial Decisions in Criminal Justice?
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Thursday, September 29, 2011

• Speaker: Janet Chan, Faculty of Law, University of new South Wales
• Topic: Restorative Justice for Victims and Serious Offenders: An Australian Study
• [Light lunch, noon, Centre lounge; talk, 12:30, Ericson Seminar Room]

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

John Ll. J. Edwards Lecture

• Speaker: Lucia Zedner, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
• Topic: The Historical Origins of the Preventive State - Or, Just How New is the New Penology?
• [4:30 pm, CG 150 (Canadiana Gallery, First Floor Auditorium)]

Thursday, April 14, 2011

• Speaker: Andreas Glaeser, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
• Topic: Power/Knowledge Failure: The East German Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of Socialism (co-sponsored with CERES)

Monday, April 4, 2011

• Speaker: Greg Smith, Department of History, University of Manitoba
• Topic: Arbitration, Equity, and Summary Justice in Eighteenth Century London

Friday, March 18, 2011

• Speaker: Andrew Gentes, Department of History, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
• Topic: "An Enormous Prison Without a Roof"" The Influence of Siberian Exile on Tsarist Russia's Penal Development*
  
  *Co-sponsored with the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies [CERES]. Location and time: Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place), 4-6 pm. Please register in advance at http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10072

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

• Speaker: Philip Girard, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
• Topic: Revolution and the Legal Profession in North America: A Comparative Inquiry

Thursday, February 17, 2011

• Speaker: Irvin Studin, School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Future of Canadian National Security: CSIS, Foreign Intelligence, Policing, and Rights

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

• Speaker: Bill McCarthy, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis
• Topic: Becoming a Sex Worker

Monday, November 22, 2010

• Speaker: Theo Verinakis, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: For Love of Country: How States Consolidate Sovereignty through Violent Civic Action

Thursday, November 4, 2010

• Speaker: Kevin O'Neill, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Soul of Security: Corporatism, Christianity, and Control in Postwar Guatemala

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

• Speaker: Kevin Walby, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: Conservation Officers, Dispersal Policing, and the Aesthetics of Urban Order in Canada's Capital City

Thursday, September 23, 2010

• Speaker: Peter Shadgett, Ontario Provincial Police and Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario
• Topic: The Transformation of Organized Crime in Ontario

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

• Speaker: Pat O'Malley, University of Sydney
• Topic: Simulated Justice: Risk, Money and Telemetric Policing

Monday, April 12, 2010

• Speaker: Carolyn Strange, Australian National University
• Topic: The Walworth Pardon of 1877: Executive Justice in a Republic

Monday, March 22, 2010

• Speaker: Candace Kruttschnitt, University of Toronto
• Topic: Are There Still "Contrasts in Tolerance"? Imprisonment in the Netherlands and England 20 Years Later

Friday, March 12, 2010

• Speaker: Elizabeth Griffiths, Emory University
• Topic: Provocations to Violence: Explaining the Issue of Contention in Violent Altercations

Friday, March 5, 2010

• Speaker: Mariana Valverde, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Current Constitutional Challenges to Canada's Prostitution Laws in the Context of International Prostitution Law Reforms

Thursday, February 25, 2010

• Speaker: Marie Comiskey, University of Michigan
• Topic: Initiating Dialogue About Jury Comprehension of Legal Concepts: Can the Stagnant Pool be Revitalized?

Thursday, February 4, 2010

• Speaker: John Beattie, University of Toronto
• Topic: Why Didn't the London Metropolitan Police Have a Detective Department in 1829?

Monday, January 25, 2010

• Speaker: Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University and University of Toronto, will present the 2010 John Ll. J. Edwards Lecture at 4:30 in Room 150, Canadiana Building
• Topic: Judges, Masters, and Diviners: Slaves' Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname

Friday, January 15, 2010

• Speaker: Sandra Bucerius, University of Toronto
• Topic: Muslim Virgin Wanted: In Search of Reasons to Quit Dealing

Thursday, November 19, 2009

• Speaker: Barrington Walker, Queen's University
• Topic: "The Blood of the African Flows Through His Veins:" The John Paris Case and Black Civil Rights in Inter-War Truro & Saint John

Thursday, October 29, 2009

• Speaker: Blake Brown, St. Mary's University
• Topic: "The Revolver Itself Originates Crimes": Gun Control Debates in Early 20th Century Canada

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

• Speaker: Davina Cooper, University of Kent
• Topic: TBA

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

• Speaker: Monda Halpern, University of Western Ontario
• Topic: Trial by Jewry: Reaction to the 1931 Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case

Monday, October 5, 2009

• Speaker: Carolyn Yule, University of Guelph
• Topic: Mothering and Crime: How Living with Children Influences Offending

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

• Speaker: Scot Wortley, University of Toronto
• Topic: Race and Police Use of Force: Results from a Study of Ontario's Special Investigation Unit

Thursday, April 2, 2009

• Speaker: Matthew Light, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Death Penalty in Russia: A Dilemma for the Kremlin - and for the Abolitionist Movement

Monday, March 23, 2009

• Speaker: Karim Ismaili, Ryerson University
• Topic: From Marginalization to Hyper-Marginalization: Surveying the Many Fronts of the War on Immigrants in the USA

Thursday, March 12, 2009

• Speaker: Todd Fogelsong, Harvard University
• Topic: The Crisis of Affordability in US Policing

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

• Speaker: Anna Pratt, York University
• Topic: Between a Hunch and a Hard Place: Making Suspicion Reasonable at the Border

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

• Speaker: Barbara Perry, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Topic: "It Could Have Been Me": The Community Effects of Hate Crime

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

• Speaker: Audrey Macklin, University ot Toronto
• Topic: Recent Developments in the Omar Khadr case

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

• Speaker: Megan Comfort, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco
• Topic: Doing Time Together: The Secondary Prisonization of Women with Incarcerated Partners

November 21, 2008

• Speaker: Nick Blomley, Dept. of Geography, Simon Fraser Unniversity
• Topic: Pedestrianism: The Logic of Flow

Tuesday, November 12, 2008

• Speaker: Katherine Beckett, Dept. of Sociology, University of Washington
• Topic: Banishment: Its Return and Consequences

Thursday, October 30, 2008

• Speaker: Mariana Valverde, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: Questions of Security. This talk will be held at 4 p.m., as part of a ceremony dedicating the seminar room to the memory of Richard V. Ericson. A reception will follow.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

• Speaker: Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
• Topic: Policy Options for the Greater Integration of Private SecurityIndustries into Policing: The View from Australia

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

• Speaker: Nawal Ammar, Dean, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Topic:: Policing Intimate Partner Violence in the U.S.: Immigrant Women's Opinions

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

• Speaker: Rosemary Gartner, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Decline of Homicide-Suicide by Men Who Kill Their Intimate Partners

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

• Speaker: Ethan Burger, Georgetown and American University
• Topic: Law as Politics: The Russian Procuracy and Its Investigative Committee

Thursday, September 18, 2008

• Speaker: Anthony Doob, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: Politics, Policies, and Imprisonment in Canada, 1960-2008

Thursday, May 15, 2008

• Speaker: Professor Maria Isabel Narvaez Mora, Faculty of Law, University of Girona
• Topic: Some Thoughts on the Fear of Crime Concept

Friday, April 4, 2008

• Speaker: Professor Mona Lynch, San Jose State University
• Topic: Transitioning to the Mass Penal State: Lessons from a Case Study of Arizona, USA

Friday, March 7, 2008

• Speaker: Jennifer Wood, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Temple University
• Topic: Who should the police be in a plural age?

Monday, December 3, 2007

• Speaker: Lynn Mather, Director, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, State University of New York at Buffalo
• Topic: TBA

Friday, November 23, 2007

• Speaker: Kimberley White, Division of Social Science, York University
• Topic: State-Made Madness: The Culture of Commissions, Public Inquiries, and Mental Health Policy in Canada

Friday, November 16, 2007

• Speaker: Jock Collins, University of Technology, Sydney
• Topic: Ethnic Diversity and Crime in Australia: Moral Panic or Meaningful Policy Responses

Friday, October 26, 2007

• Speaker: Scot Wortley, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: The Song Remains the Same: Racial Differences in Perceptions of Criminal Injustice in 1994 and 2007

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

• (Held at the Croft Chapter House) Speaker: Daphne Barak-Erez, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
• Topic: Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel

Monday, September 24, 2007

• Speaker: Rosemary Gartner and Sara Thompson, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: Homicide in Toronto: Changes over Time and Patterns Across Neighbourhoods

Friday, September 14, 2007

• Speaker: David Hulchanski, Director, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
• Topic: Crime, Poverty and Incredible Wealth: What's Happening to Toronto's Neighbourhoods?

Monday, April 9, 2007

• Speaker: Jane Sprott, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph
• Topic: Girls and Youth Justice: A Tale of Two Nations

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

• Speaker: Kevin Reitz, Annenberg Levee Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
• Topic: Multiple and Repeat Offenders: Sentencing Policy and the Shortfall of Memory

Thursday, March 15, 2007

• Speaker: Nancy Reichman, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Denver
• Topic: Network Failure: The Dark Side of Emerging Forms of Governance

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

• Speaker: David Engel, Professor of Law, State University of New York, Buffalo
• Topic: Reading the Landscape of Injury: The Lost Pathway to Law

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

• Speaker: Ronit Dinovitzer, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto - Mississauga
• Topic: The Reproduction of Inequality in the Legal Profession

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

• Speaker: Bernard Harcourt, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago
• Topic: Against Prediction: Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

• Speaker: George Rigakos, Associate Professor, Dept. of Law, Carleton University
• Topic: Nightclub: Bouncers, Risk and the Spectacle of Consumption

Thursday, October 26, 2007

• Speaker: Kim Shayo Buchanan, Columbia University
• Topic: Impunity: Sexual Abuse in US Women's Prisons

Thursday, October 5, 2007

• Speaker: Tony Doob, University of Toronto
• Topic: Discipline and Deterrence

Monday, September 25, 2007

• Speaker: Elizabeth Heger Boyle, University of Minnesota
• Topic: Hegemonic versus Ideological Law: Muslim Migrants and the Power of Competing Legalities

Monday, September 18, 2007

• Speaker: Charis Kubrin, George Washington University
• Topic: Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighbourhood Context in recidivism Studies

Monday, April 10, 2007

• Speaker: Fiona Kay, Queen's University
• Topic: Contested Boundaries: Law Practice in Quebec

Thursday March 30, 2006

• Speaker: Biko Agozino, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
• Topic: "African Fractals and Criminological Theory"

Thursday March 23, 2006

• Speaker: Randy Lippert, University of Windsor
• Topic: "Securing the Splintering City: CCTV Programs, Gated Communities, and Law"

Monday March 13, 2006

• Speaker: Chris Uggen, University of Minnesota
• Topic: Professor Uggen will discuss his recently released book (co-authored with Jeff Manza), Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Thursday February 16, 2006

• Speaker: Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph
• Topic: "Coasting and Doing Time: Drug Use in Canada in the 1940s and 1950s"

Thursday February 2, 2006

• Speaker: Janet Mosher, York University
• Topic: "A Man-in-the-House as Criminal Fraud: Welfare Fraud, Mens Rea and the Formation of 'Spousal' Relationships"

Thursday January 26, 2006

• Speaker: James Sheptycki, York University
• Topic: "Theorising the Subculture of Transnational Policing and the Transnational Subculture of Policing"

Tuesday January 17, 2006

• Speaker: Pat O'Malley, Carleton University
• Topic: "Government by Fire: Fire Prevention and Urban Security Networks" (co-authored by Steve Hutchinson)

Thursday November 9, 2005

• Speaker: Magnus Hornqvist, Stockholm University
• Topic: "From Criminogenic Need to Employability: Governing at Close Range"

Thursday October 20, 2005

• Speaker: Jody Miller, University of Missouri, St. Louis
• Topic: "Gender 'n the 'Hood: Neighborhood Violence Against Urban Girls"

Thursday October 6, 2005

• Speaker: Bill McCarthy, University of Toronto
• Topic: "What's Love Got to Do With It? Dating and Delinquency"

Friday September 30, 2005

• Speaker: Anna Pratt, York University, Randy Lippert, University of Windsor, and Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto
• Topic: "The Policing of Borders" This event will begin at 3 pm; a reception in honour of Professor Pratt's recently released book, Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada, will follow the seminar at approximately 5pm.

Monday September 19, 2005

• Speaker: Janet Chan, University of New South Wales
• Topic: "Fair Cop Episode 2: Creating a Comfort Zone"

Tuesday May 3, 2005

• Speaker: Les Jacobs, York University
• Topic: "Rights at Work During the SARS Crisis: Legal Consciousness in Three Cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Toronto)"

Tuesday April 26, 2005

• Speaker: Barbara Hudson, University of Central Lancashire
• Topic: "Beyond White Man's Justice: Race, Gender and Justice in Late Modernity"

Tuesday April 12, 2005

• Speaker: David Schneiderman, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Topic: "'Parents Can Sleep Soundly': Media Analysis of R. v. John Robin Sharpe"

Tuesday April 5, 2005

• Speaker: Rod Brunson, Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Topic: "Who's Da' Meaner? African-American Young Men and Police Harassment"

Monday March 21, 2005

• Speaker: Frank Zimring, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley
• Topic: "Explaining the 'crime drop' in the United States: Some statistical lessons from Canada"

Thursday March 17, 2005

• Speaker: Don Fyson, Laval University
• Topic: "The Judicial Prosecution of Crime in the Longue Duree: Quebec 1712-1965"

Tuesday February 22, 2005

• Speaker: Jean-Paul Brodeur, Centre de criminologie comparee, Universite de Montreal
• Topic: "Defining the police: new attempts"

Tuesday February 1, 2005

• Speaker: John Beattie, University Professor Emeritus, U of T
• Topic: "The first English detectives"

Friday January 21, 2005

• 3pm to 5pm Panel on women's imprisonment in the US, Canada, and the UK, with Julia Sudbury (Social Work, U of T), Candace Kruttschnitt (Sociology, U Minnesota), and Rosemary Gartner (Criminology, U of T). This event will be a book launch for Julia Sudbury's "Global Lockdown" and "Marking Time in the Golden State" by C. Kruttschnitt and R. Gartner

Tuesday November 23, 2004

• Speaker: Chris Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
• Topic: "Law, Population and Labour in Early America"

Tuesday October 26, 2004

• On Tuesday, October 26, the Centre of Criminology will be hosting a book launch for Pat O'Malley's new book, Risk, Uncertainty and Government, featuring remarks by Richard Ericson, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, and Pat O'Malley. This will take place from 4 to 5:30, In the Criminology lounge, with an informal reception to follow.

Wednesday October 20, 2004

• Speaker: Tony Ward, University of Hull (UK)
• Topic: "State Crime in the Heart of Darkness"

Tuesday October 12, 2004

• Speaker: Eduardo Paes Machado, Federal University of Bahia, and visiting scholar at U of T
• Topic: "Bank Employee Victimization in Brazil"

Tuesday October 5, 2004

• Speaker: Wayne Sumner, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto
• Topic: Prof. Sumner will discuss his forthcoming book, The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression

Tuesday September 21, 2004

• Speaker: Randy McGowen, University of Oregon History Dept.
• Topic: "Capital Punishment and the Bank of England"

Friday September 17, 2004

• noon to 1:45 pm Speaker: Kendall Thomas, Columbia University Law School
• Topic: "The Mourning of Enjoyment: Race, Sex and Citizenship in the Death Penalty State" Solarium, Falconer Hall, Faculty of Law (Queen's Park) (This talk co-sponsored with the Faculty of Law)

Tuesday April 6, 2004

• Speaker: Prof. Mariana Valverde, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Seeing Like a City: Legal Tools of Urban Order"

Thursday April 1, 2004

• Speaker: Prof. Vince Sacco, Dept. of Sociology, Queen's University
• Topic: "Talk to the Hand: Reacting to Extortionate Crime in the Context of an Urban Crime Wave"

Tuesday March 23, 2004

• Speaker: Prof. Simon Holdaway, Director, Centre for Criminological Research, Sheffield University
• Topic: "Black Police Associations in the United Kingdom"

Tuesday March 16, 2004

• Speaker: Soren Frederiksen, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
• Topic: "Truth or Tall Tales: The Polygraph and Canadian Understandings of Scientific Evidence"

Tuesday March 9, 2004

• Speaker: Prof. Scott Decker, Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri St. Louis
• Topic: "Recognizing and Responding to Gangs: America, Europe and Beyond"

Wednesday March 3, 2004

• Speaker: Michelle Shepherd, Jim Rankin and Scott Simmie, Investigative Reporters, The Toronto Star
• Topic: "The Aftermath of the Toronto Star Series on Racial Bias in Policing: Stagnation, Progress or a Turn in the Wrong Direction?" IMPORTANT NOTE: This talk is being co-sponsored by the Centre of Excellence in Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS). The talk will be in Room 548, 246 Bloor Street West (North-West corner of Bloor and Bedford)

Wednesday February 25, 2004

• Speaker: Dr. Michael Falk, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Sick Kids Hospital (Toronto)
• Topic: "A Demographic Analysis of Gang-Involved Homicide Among California Youth: 1990-1999"

Tuesday January 13, 2004

• Speaker: Prof. Anthony Doob, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Understanding the Use of Imprisonment in Canada: Speaking Harshly but Acting like Canadians"

Thursday November 27, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Sociology/Criminology, University of Toronto, and Prof. Paula Maurutto, Sociology, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Retrofitting Risk: Practitioners' Understanding and Use of Youth Risk Assessments"

Thursday November 20, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Jerry Bannister, History Memorial University, St. John's
• Topic: "Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832"

Monday November 17, 2003

• Speaker: Dr. Susan Eley, Stirling University
• Topic: "Drug Treatment Courts"

Monday October 20, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Markus Dubber, Law, Buffalo
• Topic: "The Police Power of the State and the Foundations of US Criminal Law"

Monday October 6, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Anna Pratt, Sociology, Brock University and Sara Thompson (Criminology)
• Topic: "Policing Borders [An Empriical Study of Customs and Immigration Officers' Work"

Monday September 29, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Simon Cole, Criminology, University of California at Irvine
• Topic: "Identifying the Criminal: From Fingerprints to DNA and Back Again"

Monday March 31, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Rosemary Gartner, Carla Cesaroni, Carolyn Yule, Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "Situating Women's Experiences of Victimization and Offending"

Friday March 28, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Carolyn Strange, Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "Riel-ity TV: the re-trial of Louis Riel"

Tuesday March 25, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Maximo Sozzo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina
• Topic: "Police corruption and police reform in Buenos Aires"

Tuesday March 11, 2003

• Speaker: Dr. Les Moran, Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Topic: "Cosmopolitan safety: violence, sexuality, space"

Monday March 3, 2003

• Speaker: Michael Tonry, Cambridge Criminology Institute
• Topic: "Why is the Canadian Criminal Justice System Less Punitive?"

Monday February 24, 2003

• Speaker: Dr. Ian Loader, Criminology, Keele University
• Topic: "Towards a cultural sociology of policing: the case of England"

Monday February 10, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Aaron Doyle, Sociology, Carleton University
• Topic: "COPS: Television policing as policing reality"

Thursday January 30, 2003

• Speaker: Ron Levi, University of Toronto/Northwestern University
• Topic: "Gated communities in law’s gaze"

Monday January 27, 2003

• Speaker: Prof. Julie Horney, Dean, Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Albany
• Topic: TBA

Thursday, December 5, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Pat O'Malley, Canada Research Chair in Criminology, Carleton University
• Topic: "Uncertainty Makes Us Free: Liberalism, Security and the Disposition of Risk"

Monday, December 2, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Philip Stenning, Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "Policing the Cultural Kaleidoscope: Recent Canadian Experiences"

Thursday, November 21, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Malcolm Feeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California at Berkeley
• Topic: "The Vanishing Female Revisited: Further Explorations of the Decline of Women in the Criminal Process in the 18th and 19th Centuries"

Monday, November 4, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Carolyn Strange, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Leprosy Park: Legal Exile and Tourism in Hawai'i"

Monday, October 21, 2002

• Speaker: Dr. Alison Liebling, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University
• Topic: "Prison Officers and the Moral Performance of Prisons"

Thursday, October 3, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Michael Jackson, Criminology, Simon Fraser University
• Topic: "Justice Behind the Walls"

Monday, September 23, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Julian Roberts, Criminology, University of Ottawa
• Topic: "Penal Populism: Findings From Five Countries"

Monday, July 29, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Paula Poncioni, Dept. of Social Policy, School of Social Work, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Topic: "The Construction of Police Professional Identity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"

Thursday, May 9, 2002

• Speaker: Teri Miller, University of Buffalo Law School
• Topic: "The Intersection of Crime, Immigration Policy, and war in the U.S."

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

• Speaker: John Beattie, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750"

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

• Speaker: Richard Ericson, University of British Columbia
• Topic: "Criminalizing Disability"

Thursday, March 21, 2002

• Speaker: Evelyn Ruppert, York Sociology and Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "Moral Economies of Security: Professional Practices and the Improvement of Yonge-Dundas"

Tuesday, March 5, 2002

• Speaker: David Garland, Law and Sociology, New York University
• Topic: "Thinking About Risk"

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

• Speaker: Barrington Walker, History Dept. and Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "Recovery, Retrieval and Racial Representation: Blackness and Ontario's Criminal Courts in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"

Monday, February 4, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Gary Kinsman, Sociology and Anthropology
• Topic: "'Queers,' Subversives,' Terrorists': National Security as an Ideological Practice"

Thursday, January 24, 2002

• Speaker: Professor Audrey Macklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Topic: "Looking at Law Through the Lens of Justice: Snapshots from the Criminal Justice System"

Thursday, October 18, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Pat O-Malley, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• Topic: "Pleasure, Freedom and the Liberal Governance of Drugs and Alcohol"

Tuesday, October 9, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Irene Nemes, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
• Topic: "Hate Speech and the Internet"

Thursday, September 20, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Brian Burtch, Criminology Department, Simon Fraser University
• Topic: "Penal Abolitionism in Canada"

Thursday, June 14, 2001

• Speaker: Pr. Eduardo Pael Machado, Institute of Public Health, Universidade Federal de Bahia, Brazil
• Topic: "Robbers Aboard: Workplace Violence and Insecurity in the Public Transportation of a Brazilian City: The Case of Salvador, Bahia"

Thursday, May 3, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Pat O'Malley, Dept. of Legal Studies, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• Topic: TBA

Tuesday, April 3, 2001

• Speaker: Dr. Barbara Sullivan, Dept. of Government, University of Queensland, Australia
• Topic: TBA

Tuesday, March 20, 2001

• Speaker: Mr. Jeff Thomas
• Topic: "Mr. Thomas will give a presentation about his work as the documentary photographer for the 1991 Manitoba "Aboriginal Justice Inquiry"

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Michael Sibalis, Dept. of History, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Topic: "Policing of Homosexuality in French History"

Wednesday, February 28, 2001

• Speaker: Professor David Rasmussen, Dept. of Economics, Florida State University, Talahassee
• Topic: "Exploring the Behavioural Consequences of Social Capital"

Thursday, February 1, 2001

• Speaker: Professor Lauren Snider, Dept. of Sociology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
• Topic: "Theft of Time"

Thursday, December 7, 2000

• Speaker: Dr. Alison Bashford, Chair, Dept. of Gender Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
• Topic: "Imperial Hygiene: Leprosy and the Management of Race, Sexuality, and Nation in Inter-war Australia"

Tuesday, December 5, 2000

• Speaker: Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Faculty of Law, Flinders University, South Australia
• Topic: "Police, States, and Fear"

Tuesday, November 7, 2000

• Speaker: Professor Farley Brathwaite, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies
• Topic: "Victims of Crime and the Criminal Justice System in Barbados"

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

• Speaker: Professor Wesley Pue, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver , B.C.
• Topic: "Lawyers with Soul: Professionalization's Great Commission (or, Making the West Less Wild)"

Thursday, September 28, 2000

• Speaker: Dr. Ruth Herz, University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Topic: "Putting the Nazi Past Behind Us: Juvenile Justice and Germany's Changing Political Culture"

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

• Speaker: Dr. Janet Chan, School of Social Science and Policy, University of New South Wales
• Topic: "Negotiating the field: New observations on the making of police officers"

Friday, April 28, 2000

• Speaker: Prof. George Mair, Liverpool John Moores University
• Topic: "Electronic monitoring in the UK"

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

• Speaker: Sara Knox, Dept. of Humanities, University of Western Sydney
• Topic: "A world made of class: crime, culture and community in an age of hypermedia"

Thursday, March 23, 2000

• Speaker: "Marc Mauer, US Sentencing Project. Will introduce his new book, Race to Incarcerate."

Tuesday, March 14, 2000

• Speaker: Annmarie Barnes, Centre of Criminology, and Akua Benjamin, Ryerson
• Topic: "Stigmatization and deportation of Jamaican immigrants to Canada"

Friday, March 10, 2000

• Speaker: Peter Bailey, History Department, University of Manitoba
• Topic: "Public space, private adventure: social and sexual encounters in Victorian railways - Cosponsored with the History Department"

Wednesday, February 23, 2000

• Speaker: Maximo Sozzo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina)
• Topic: "Current trends in urban security projects and policing innovations in Argentina"

Tuesday, February 8, 2000

• Speaker: Sherene Razack, OISE
• Topic: "Pedagogies of citizenship: Canadian national mythologies and law"

Tuesday, January 25, 2000

• Speaker: Joe Hermer, Centre of Criminology
• Topic: "'The forlorn waif look': Policing women begging with children on the London Underground"

Wednesday, January 19, 2000

• Speaker: Alan Hunt, Carleton University
• Topic: "Discipline: more or less legal?"