Faculty

BOYANOWSKY, EHOR

Associate Professor

Forensic psychology; social psychology; social policy.

ELLIOTT, LIZ

Associate Professor

Restorative/transformative justice; social philosophy of punishment and abolitionism; critical analysis of the prison; fear of crime; prison writing; prison ethnography; prison education; criminological theory.

FAITH, KARLENE

Professor Emerita

Feminist theory; gender/race/class relations and crime; media imagery of criminalized women; philosophical/historical criminology; women's prisons; witch-hunts; social justice; political prisoners; prisoner auto/biographies; prison abolition.

GORDON, ROBERT M.

Professor Emeritus

Health law, including mental health law; adult guardianship and adult protection law, including the law relating to public guardians and trustees; supported and substitute decision making; abuse and neglect of the elderly; medical assistance in dying; commercial and international attacks on academic integrity.

LOWMAN, JOHN

Professor Emeritus

Critical criminology; prostitution; prostitution law; sociology of punishment; research confidentiality;assisted suicide.

VERDUN-JONES, SIMON N.

Professor Emeritus

Criminal law; procedure and evidence; Canadian and international mental health law and policy; criminal law reform; comparative criminal law and procedure; mentally disordered offenders; Canadian criminal justice system; criminal justice history; victims' rights; family violence and the law; plea bargaining; sexual abuse of children and the law; mental disorder defence, fitness to stand trial; international perspectives on criminal justice; sentencing; expert testimony; violence and aggression in mental health facilities; long-term and dangerous offenders; risk assessment and risk management; psychopathy and the criminal justice system; international criminal justice and the International Criminal Court.