We're very excited to present our seventh episode of season 2, a conversation with Dale Ballucci, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western University. In this episode, we discussed the policing of intimate partner violence, the importance of crime analysts, and much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

We're very excited to present our sixth episode of season 2, a conversation with Kim Varma, Associate Professor of Criminology at Ryerson University. In this episode, we discussed the Canadian youth justice landscape, restorative justice, and much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

We're very excited to present our fifth episode of season 2, a conversation with Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University. In this episode, we discussed internet governance, smart cities, her recent work on PayPal and social media platforms, and so much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

We're very excited to present our fourth episode of season 2, a conversation with Pamela Palmater, Professor and the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University. In this episode, we discussed her research and activism on Indigenous governance, as well as issues impacting Indigenous communities in Canada. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

We're very excited to present our third episode of season 2, a conversation with Kanika Samuels-Wortley from the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University. We discussed her research on the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous youth in the criminal justice system, applying a critical race lens to studies of perceptions of police, and much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

For this episode, we decided to switch things up and sit down with not one but two scholars: Alexander McClelland of Carleton University's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Alex Luscombe from the University of Toronto's Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Alexander and Alex stopped by to talk at length about their Policing the Pandemic Mapping Project, which tracks expansions of police power and unequal enforcement in response to COVID-19. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field!   Relevant links: Policing the Pandemic website ..read more

Welcome back to Season 2 of Criminologia! In this episode, we are joined by Giancarlo Fiorella, a PhD candidate from the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Giancarlo stopped by to chat about his dissertation project on protest policing in Venezuela, his work as a Senior Investigator at Bellingcat, and so much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field!   Links to some of Giancarlo's work: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/05/the-invasion-of-venezuela-brought-to-you-by-silvercorp-usa/   https://www.be ..read more

We're very excited to present to you our sixth episode, a conversation with Matthew Light from the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. In this episode, we discuss his extensive experience in comparative research on informal security institutions in post-Soviet countries, the connections between migration, organized crime, and corruption, and much more. This will be our last episode for the summer while we focus on our research, but we will be back this September with a new slate of episodes. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars fro ..read more

We're very excited to present to you our fifth episode, a conversation with Sandra Bucerius from the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. In this episode, we discuss her most recent project on the realities of living and working in prisons, the influence of COVID-19 on the carceral experience, her ethnographic work in Germany, and much more. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more

We're very excited to present to you our fourth episode, a conversation with Audrey Macklin, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. In this episode, we discuss private refugee sponsorship, crimes against citizenship, and the impacts of COVID-19 on borders. Subscribe to Criminologia for more interviews with scholars from the field.  ..read more