Our PhD alumni study crime, order and security from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches. Use the list below to expore the range of areas our doctoral students have explored over the years.
Where available, theses are linked to TSpace, the University of Toronto's research repository, or else to the UofT Libraries Catalogue.
Theses
Giancarlo Fiorella, 2023 (Supv. Professor Beatrice Jauregui): Spectralities at the Protest Chronotope: Venezuela’s Colectivos and the Opposition Social Imaginary
Serdar San, 2023 (Supv. Professor Matthew Light): Policing and Police Reform in Turkey since 1980: Regime Transitions and Policing Transformations
Fernando Ramon Avila, 2023 (Supv. Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat): "The Scars Remain." Power, Solidarity, and Punishment in an Atypical Latin American Prison
Grant John Valentine, 2023 (Supv. Professor Paula Maurutto): The Canadian Punitive Paradox: The Evolution of Conservative Political Marketing Practices and the Late Onset of Penal Populism in Canadian Federal Politics
Jihyun Kwon, 2023 (Supv. Professor Audrey Macklin, Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat): Misconduct Mismanagement: Independent Oversight, Accountability, and the Rule of Law
Erick Laming, 2022 (Supv. Professor Scot Wortley): Police Use of Force: Understanding its Impact on Indigenous and Black Community Members in Ontario
Dikla Yogev, 2022 (Supv. Professor Matthew Light): Religion and Police Legitimacy: the Case of Israel’s Haredi Community
Luis Valentin Pereda Aguado, 2021 (Supv. Professor Matthew Light): Processes of Violence in Mexico’s Organized Crime Groups: A Study of Los Zetas
Julius Haag, 2021 (Supv. Professor Scot Wortley): A Qualitative Examination of the Impacts of Police Practices on Racialized and Marginalized Young People in Toronto
Jacquie Briggs, 2021, (Supv. Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde): Networks of Colonial Governance: Department of Indian Affairs Legal Aid in Canada, 1870 to 1970
Grace Tran, 2021 (Supv. Professor Audrey Macklin, Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde): Laws of Love: Negotiations of Intimacy and Legitimacy At and Beyond State Borders Through Vietnamese “Marriage Fraud” Arrangements
Zachary Levinsky, 2020: 'Don't Under Reach': The Limits of Compassion and Risk Management in Toronto School Safety from 1999-2007
Brenna Keatinge, 2018: Growing Land, Growing Law: Race, Urban Politics, and the Governance of Vacant Land in Boston from 1950
Katharina Maier, 2018: Half Way to Freedom: The Role of Halfway Houses in Canada's Penal Landscape
Lysandra Marshall, 2017: Racial Disparities in Police Stops in Kingston, Ontario: Democratic Racism and Canadian Racial Profiling in Theoretical Perspective
Maria Jung, 2017: The Relationship between Immigration and Crime in Canada: 1976-2011
Meghana Rao, 2017: Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijr Suicides in India
Holly Pelvin, 2017: Doing Uncertain Time: Understanding the Experiences of Punishment in Pre-trial Custody
Vanessa Iafolla, 2015: Anti-money Laundering and Counter-terrorist Financing Policy in Canada: Origins, Implementation and Enforcement
Alexandra Lysova, 2015: Dynamics of Violence between Intimate Partners in the Narratives of Incarcerated Women in Canada: A Violent Events Perspective
Natasha Madon, 2015: Intersections of Youths'Perceptions: Youths' Perceptions of Their Treatment by the Criminal Justice System and Other Social Institutions
Tara Marie Watson, 2014: Risks Inside and Beyond Institutional Walls: Organisational Responses to Substance Use in Canadian Federal Prisons
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, 2014: Black Males' Perceptions of and Experiences with the Police in Toronto
Nicole Myers, 2013: Creating Criminality: The Intensification of Institutional Risk Aversion Strategies and the Decline of the Bail Process
Rashmee Singh, 2012: Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
Olena Kobzar, 2012: Networking on the Margins: The Regulation of Payday Lending in Canada
Sarah Turnbull, 2012: Reconfiguring Canadian Penality: Gender, Diversity and Parole
Allyson Lunny, 2011: Victimhood and Socio-legal Narratives of Hate Crime against Queer Communities in Canada, 1985-2003
Carolyn Greene, 2011: Creating Consensus: An Exploration of Two Pre-charge Diversion Programs in Canada
Anita Lam, 2011: Making Crime TV: Producing Fictional Representations of Crime for Canadian Television
Myles Leslie, 2011: Speaking for the Dead: Coroners, Institutional Structures and Risk Management
Prashan Ranasinghe, 2009: The Refashioning of Vagrancy and the (Re)Ordering of Public Space
Michael Mopas, 2009: Imagining the Internet and Making it Governable: Canadian Law and Regulation
Sara Thompson, 2009: The Social Ecology and Spatial Distribution of Lethal Violence in Toronto, 1988-2003
Randy Seepersad, 2009: Mediators and Moderators in the Relative Deprivation - Crime/Counter-normative Actions Relationship
Annmarie Barnes, 2007: Transnational Dislocations: The Use of Deportation as Crime Control
Dawn Moore, 2005: To Cure the Offender: Drugs, Users and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Mary Lynn Young, 2005: Crime Content and Media Economics: Gendered Practices and Sensational Stories, 1950-2000
Carla Cesaroni, 2005: The Stress and Adjustment of Youth in Custody
Bryan Hogeveen, 2003: Can't You Be a Man? Rebuilding Wayward Masculinities and Regulating Juvenile Deviance in Ontario 1860-1930
Cheryl Webster, 2003: Working for 'Good Order and Discipline': The Impact of Mandatory Convict Labour on the Maintenance of Orderly Prison Life in Contemporary Portugal
John Deukmedjian, 2002: The Evolution and Alignment of RCMP Conflict Management and Organizational Surveillance
Phil Mun, 2002: Calculated Risk-taking: The Governance of Casino Gambling in Ontario
Renisa Mawani, 2001: The "Savage Indian" and the "Foreign Plague": Mapping Racial Categories and Legal Geographies of Race in British Columbia, 1871-1925
Kimberly-Jo White, 2001: Negotiating Responsibility: Representations of Criminality and Mind-State in Canadian Law, Medicine and Society, 1920-1950
Jennifer Wood, 2000: Reinventing Governance : A Study of Transformations in the Ontario Provincial Police
Kirsten Kramar, 2000: Unwilling Mothers and Unwanted Babies: 'Infanticide' and Medico-Legal Responsibility in 20th Century Canadian Legal Discourse
Kim Varma, 2000: Exploring Age and Maturity in Youth Justice
Stephane Leman-Langlois, 2000: Constructing Post-Conflict Justice: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an Ongoing Invention of Reconciliation and Truth
Anna Pratt, 2000: A Political Anatomy of Detention and Deportation in Canada
Voula Marinos, 2000: The Multiple Dimensions of Punishment: 'Intermediate' Sanctions and Interchangeability with Imprisonment
Jane Sprott 1999: Views of the Punishment of Youth: The Dimensions of Punitiveness
Benedikt Fischer, 1998: "Community policing" : a study of local policing, order and control
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, 1997: From Christian maternalism to risk technologies, penal powers and women's knowledges in the governance of female prisons
Willem De Lint, 1997: Shaping the subject of policing, autonomy, regulation and the police constable
Tammy Landau, 1994: Policing and security in four remote aboriginal communities: a challenge to coercive models of police work