Faculty
Paul J Baxter
Paul Baxter is a Sessional Assistant Professor. He is a member of the Committee on Curriculum and Academic Policy (CCAP). He currently teaches Criminological Research Methods, and two sections of Contemporary Issues in Criminology.
Title: Sessional Assistant Professor
Department: Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Ross Building, S728
Building Address: (via Central Square)
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 20507
Email: pjbaxter@yorku.ca
Claudio Colaguori is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and the Department of Human Rights and Equity Studies at York University. His current research interests include crime, media and the new authoritarianism, wrongful convictions and human rights and the agonistic configurations of culture. He is twice the recipient of ‘The John O’Neill Award for Teaching Excellence’ in Sociology at York University and twice nominated for TVO’s best lecturer competition.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Social Science and Human Rights and Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Atkinson College, 328
Building Address: 90 Pond Road
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 44009
Email: claudio.ac@rogers.com
Amanda Glasbeek, Associate Professor, conducts research on the history of women and the criminal law, feminist criminology and governance, risk and crime. She has most recently published in the area of gendered fear of crime, risk discourses, and concepts of urban safety.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Ross Building, S724A
Building Address: (via Central Square)
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 33749
Email: aglasbee@yorku.ca
Web Site: www.yorku.ca/laps/sosc/aglasbee
Anna Pratt
Anna Pratt is an Associate Professor of Criminology. Her interests encompass policing and punishment; law, administration and discretion; borders, risk and security; and national inclusions/exclusions as they relate to immigrants and refugees in Canada. Pratt’s research has focused on the intersections of criminal justice and immigration and refugee domains that culminate in detention and deportation (Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada, UBC Press, 2005). Her current major study is a SSHRC funded investigation into the culture, organization and knowledges that shape the policing of borders in Canada.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Ross Building, S722
Building Address: (via Central Square)
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 33748
Email: apratt@yorku.ca
Web Site: www.yorku.ca/apratt
James Sheptycki
James Sheptycki is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Science. His special research expertise revolves around issues of transnational crime and policing. He has written on a variety of substantive criminological topics including domestic violence, serial killers, money laundering, drugs, public order policing, organized crime, police accountability, intelligence-led policing, witness protection, risk and insecurity. He is currently engaged in research concerning ‘guns, crime and social order’.
Title: Professor
Department: Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: McLaughlin College, 034
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 53726
Email: jshep@yorku.ca
Livy Visano
Livy Visano, Professor of Sociology, former Dean of Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies and former Chair of Sociology. He is currently completing his manuscript: “Ontonomology: The impact of ideologies on institutionalizing injustices” and is publishing the findings of his SSHRC research project on “Media and Youth Gangs”. He is also working on Anarchist contributions to criminology.He has received numerous awards for outstanding contributions to teaching. He has supervised dozens of doctoral students. He has authored / edited 8 books and has written over 50 published articles.He is Vice President of the York University Faculty Association; Vice Chair of the Huntington University Board of Regents. He serves on the Boards of numerous community – based organizations and currently teaches critical criminology, critical legal and cultural criminology courses.Served as consultant to federal, provincial and local governments and agencies.
Title: Professor
Department: Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Ross Bldg, S728
Building Address: (via Central Square)
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 66317
Email: lavisano@yorku.ca
Web Site: yorku.ca/lavisano
James Williams
James Williams, Associate Professor, has conducted research into the public versus private policing of financial crime and the challenges of financial governance in contemporary market economies. He recently completed a three year SSHRC grant on the policing of securities fraud in Canada. Future research interests include corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry and the limits and lapses of forensic science as a juridical technology.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Campus Address: Ross Building, S724
Building Address: (via Central Square)
Phone: (416)736-2100 x 20547
Email: jamesw1@yorku.ca