Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies has a new director.

The Centre is delighted to announce that Kelly Hannah-Moffat has been appointed as the Centre’s new director, starting July 1, 2013.

Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat, who has a PhD from the Centre, is currently Vice-Dean Undergraduate at the University of Toronto in Mississauga (UTM); she was previously chair of Sociology at UTM, and has been cross appointed to the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies for many years. She is active in the Law and Society Association as well as the American Society of Criminology. She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Punishment and Society, British Journal of Criminology, Theoretical Criminology, and Canadian Journal of Criminology.

While doing her PhD, Kelly worked as a policy advisor for Madame Justice Arbour on the Commission of Inquiry into Certain Events at the Prison for Women in Kingston; she was also the President of the Toronto Elizabeth Fry Society. In 2001, she received the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for the best article in published in the British Journal of Criminology. She is the author of one influential book about women’s imprisonment, Punishment in Disguise, co-editor of Gendered Risks (with Pat O’Malley) and author of numerous articles on parole, risk, gender, and social justice and punishment. Her current national SSHRC project  (with P. Maurutto) examines specialized courts (domestic violence, Aboriginal, community/wellness and drug courts) and how legal practices such as bail, sentencing, and case processing have collectively changed as a consequence of the hybrid approaches used in these courts.

Outgoing director Professor Mariana Valverde will be on leave for one year, and will be working on three major projects. One is a theoretical book on spatiotemporal scales in law, tentatively entitled Chronotopes of Law (to be published by Routledge UK). Together with three colleagues, she has also started work on a SSHRC-funded empirical project on public-private partnerships in local governance (in the Greater Toronto area), for which she is the PI. And she hopes to have time to finally read the pile of urban history books that form much of the material for the long-delayed SSHRC-funded historical sociology project on the legal tools used in major global-North cities to separate ‘good’ from ‘bad’ neighbourhoods.

 

March 2012 Newsletter of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto.

*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 Novemeber 20, 2012: Centre Anniversary Event
* *- Conference Honouring The Work of Richard Ericson Now Available On Web*
*- Centre Research on Police Racial Profiling Draws Attention
- Interested In An Academic Career In Law and Society?

Here is the link to a pdf of the Newsletter.

Pat O'Malley - The Politics of Mass Preventive Justice

Pat O'Malley is a frequent visitor to the Centre. Tom

Martin Friedland - The Canadian Criminal Code: Past, Present, and Future?

Tony Doob and Mariana Valverde - Making More Crime

Crimbrary will be posting more video from this conference of the next several days. Will also post to the Centres Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Criminology-Sociolegal-Studies/220474527970263 Tom

Judges, Masters, Diviners: Slaves’ Experience of Criminal Justice in Colonial Suriname

This article, which was the title of Natalie Davis' Edwards Lecture at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, has now been published by the Law and Society Review. It is part of a special issue on Law Slavery and Justice. (Volume 29, issue 4, 2011).

Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita from Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Toronto <nz.davis@utoronto.ca>. Among her many publications are The Return of Martin
Guerre (Harvard University Press, 1983), Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (Stanford University Press, 1987), The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision (Vintage Canada and Harvard University Press, 2000), and Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds (Hill and Wang, 2006). This article was originally presented in a shorter version as the 2010 John Ll. J. Edwards Lecture for the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto, and she is grateful to colleagues there for their discussion. She thanks Sara Beam, William A. Christian, Jr., Colin Dayan, Malick Ghachem, Linda Heywood, Martin Klein, Paul Lovejoy, Melanie Newton, Rebecca J. Scott, and John K. Thornton for their valuable advice, although none of them is responsible for any errors in this essay. Her research assistant, Kate Creasey, was of great help in tracking
down sources in the history of Dutch law.

You can read the complete article here.

2011 John Ll. J. Edwards Lecture

Tuesday, 2011 John Ll. J. Edwards Lecture
Sept. 20 Lucia Zedner (Faculty of Law, Oxford University),
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)]

May 17, 2011 — U of T Criminology student wins Trudeau Scholarship for research on women and violence

May 17, 2011
By Jessica Lewis

Alexandra Lysova

The prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship is being awarded to Alexandra Lysova, a PhD student in criminology at the University of Toronto, for her outstanding research on women’s attitudes in situations of recurring domestic violence.

The Trudeau Scholarships, which include an $180,000 award and the opportunity to be mentored by a leading scholar, is awarded to Canadian and foreign PhD social sciences and humanities students who examine Canadian concerns in fields such as environment, international affairs, citizenship and human rights. Fourteen students were named Trudeau Scholars this year.

Lysova’s research explores women’s involvement in intimate partner violence using information obtained in interviews with incarcerated women in Canada and the United States. Through this, Lysova hopes to assess the independent contributions of individual and relationship characteristics to the dynamics of women’s involvement in intimate partner violence.

“I am very much delighted and honoured to be awarded such a prestigious Canadian scholarship as the Trudeau Scholarship,” Lysova says. “It also validates the importance of studying the issue of female involvement in violence. I hope that the Trudeau Scholarship will assist me with the conditions and opportunities to reach my study objectives and career goals.”

The Foundation, established in 2001, is an independent and non-partisan Canadian charity. The newest Scholars will be introduced to the Trudeau community at the foundation's summer institute May 16 to 20 in Whistler, B.C.

“Trudeau Scholarships not only accelerate the careers of the doctoral students who receive them, but also enable recipients to make a constructive contribution to Canada and Canadians,” said Foundation President P.G. Forest. “The Trudeau Foundation rewards excellence and provides young researchers with the best conditions to ground their work in the real world.”

Congrats Sasha. Tom