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 U of T Libraries Catalogue.
Theses
Sabeen Kazmi, 2025 (Supv: Professor Beatrice Jauregui): 'Drawing' Out Colonial Threads: Property, Law, and Inequality.
Omowumi Modupe Asubiaro Dada, 2025 (Supv. Professor Kamari Clarke): Mai Kariya (Female Protectors): The Evolving Role of Women in Conflict in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
Daniel Konikoff, 2024 (Supv. Professor Beatrice Jauregui): Automating the Thin Blue Line: Controversy, Knowledge, and the Governance of Police Technology in Canada.
Alexander Luscombe, 2024 (Supv. Professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah): Digital Footprints of the Policing Web: A Study of Police Economic Crime Investigation using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.
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
Jacqueline Briggs, 2022 (Supv. Professor Emerita Mariana Valverde): Networks of Colonial Governance: Department of Indian Affairs Legal Aid in Canada, 1870 to 1970
Grace Tran, 2022 (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
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
Zachary P. Levinsky, 2020 (Supv. Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat): 'Don't Under React': The Limits of Compassion and Risk Management in Toronto School Safety from 1999-2007
Adam Ellis, 2020 (Supv: Professor Scot Wortley): Reconceptualizing Urban Warfare In Canada: Exploring the Relationship Between Trauma, Post-traumatic Stress, and Violence Among Male Combat Soldiers and 'Street Soldiers'
Brenna Keatinge, 2018 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Growing Land, Growing Law: Race, Urban Politics, and the Governance of Vacant Land in Boston from 1950
Katharina Maier, 2018 (Supv: Rosemary Gartner): Half Way to Freedom: The Role of Halfway Houses in Canada's Penal Landscape
Lysandra Marshall, 2017 (Supv: Professor Scot Wortley): Racial Disparities in Police Stops in Kingston, Ontario: Democratic Racism and Canadian Racial Profiling in Theoretical Perspective
Maria Jung, 2017 (Supv: Professor Rosemary Gartner): The Relationship between Immigration and Crime in Canada: 1976-2011
Meghana Rao, 2017 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijr Suicides in India
Holly Pelvin, 2017 (Supv: Professor Rosemary Gartner): Doing Uncertain Time: Understanding the Experiences of Punishment in Pre-trial Custody
Vanessa Iafolla, 2015 (Supv: Professor Matthew Light): Anti-money Laundering and Counter-terrorist Financing Policy in Canada: Origins, Implementation and Enforcement
Alexandra Lysova, 2015 (Supv: Professor Rosemary Gartner): Dynamics of Violence between Intimate Partners in the Narratives of Incarcerated Women in Canada: A Violent Events Perspective
Natasha Madon, 2015 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): Intersections of Youths'Perceptions: Youths' Perceptions of Their Treatment by the Criminal Justice System and Other Social Institutions
Tara Marie Watson, 2014 (Supv: Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat): Risks Inside and Beyond Institutional Walls: Organisational Responses to Substance Use in Canadian Federal Prisons
Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, 2014 (Supv: Professor Scot Wortley): Black Males' Perceptions of and Experiences with the Police in Toronto
Nicole Myers, 2013 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): Creating Criminality: The Intensification of Institutional Risk Aversion Strategies and the Decline of the Bail Process
Rashmee Singh, 2012 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
Olena Kobzar, 2012 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Networking on the Margins: The Regulation of Payday Lending in Canada
Sarah Turnbull, 2012 (Supv: Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat): Reconfiguring Canadian Penality: Gender, Diversity and Parole
Allyson Lunny, 2011 (Supv: Professor Rosemary Gartner): Victimhood and Socio-legal Narratives of Hate Crime against Queer Communities in Canada, 1985-2003
Carolyn Greene, 2011 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): Creating Consensus: An Exploration of Two Pre-charge Diversion Programs in Canada
Anita Lam, 2011 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Making Crime TV: Producing Fictional Representations of Crime for Canadian Television
Myles Leslie, 2011 (Supv: Professor Ron Levi): Speaking for the Dead: Coroners, Institutional Structures and Risk Management
Prashan Ranasinghe, 2009 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): The Refashioning of Vagrancy and the (Re)Ordering of Public Space
Michael Mopas, 2009 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): 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 (Co-Supvs: Professor Scot Wortley, Professor Anthony Doob, Professor Rosemary Gartner): 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 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): To Cure the Offender: Drugs, Users and the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Mary Lynn Young, 2005 (Co-Supvs: Professor Carolyn Strange, Professor Anthony Doob): Crime Content and Media Economics: Gendered Practices and Sensational Stories, 1950-2000
Carla Cesaroni, 2005 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): 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 (Supv: Professor Rosemary Gartner): 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 (Supv: Professor Clifford Shearing): The Evolution and Alignment of RCMP Conflict Management and Organizational Surveillance
Phil Mun, 2002 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): Calculated Risk-taking: The Governance of Casino Gambling in Ontario
Renisa Mawani, 2001 (Supv: Professor Carolyn Strange): 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 (Supv: Professor Clifford Shearing): Reinventing Governance : A Study of Transformations in the Ontario Provincial Police
Kirsten Kramar, 2000 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): 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 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): A Political Anatomy of Detention and Deportation in Canada
Voula Marinos, 2000 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): The Multiple Dimensions of Punishment: 'Intermediate' Sanctions and Interchangeability with Imprisonment
Jane Sprott, 1999 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): Views of the Punishment of Youth: The Dimensions of Punitiveness
Benedikt Fischer, 1998 (Supv: Professor Philip Stenning): "Community policing" : a study of local policing, order and control
Kelly Hannah-Moffat, 1997 (Supv: Professor Mariana Valverde): From Christian maternalism to risk technologies, penal powers and women's knowledges in the governance of female prisons
Willem De Lint, 1997 (Co-Supvs: Professor Clifford Shearing, Professor Mariana Valverde): Shaping the subject of policing, autonomy, regulation and the police constable
Tammy Landau, 1994 (Supv: Professor Anthony Doob): Policing and security in four remote aboriginal communities: a challenge to coercive models of police work