Criminology

Professor emeritus publishes new book on interdisciplinary approaches to criminology

James Sheptycki has published a new book titled Conflict, Crime and Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Wiley, 2025). The book looks at how conflict and power shape crime and criminology, integrating interdisciplinary theories along with his own research and years of experience working in the field. It covers emerging concerns such as ecocide, human rights-based criminology, and the digital transformation of law […]

Social science professor discusses closure of Toronto strip club in the Toronto Star

A recent article in the Toronto Star covered the closure of Filmores Hotel and Gentleman’s Club, a strip club located in downtown Toronto. The club had been in business for 45 years and closed its doors on Jan. 31. The article features quotes from several of the club’s longstanding dancers who reflect positively on several […]

Researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies secure federal funding to pursue projects in the social sciences and humanities

Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $1.7 million in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Development Grants program. The program will provide funding for projects lasting up to two years, supporting a broad range of topics and disciplines as researchers investigate key societal challenges. A number […]

York U students earn awards for achievements in social science

31 awards were presented to LA&PS students across a number of diverse fields of study, including African Studies, Law & Society, Criminology and more.

Assistant professor Jessica Braimoh co-produces documentary on homelessness in Ontario

Jessica Braimoh, assistant professor in the Department of Social Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, has co-produced an important new documentary Bridging Divides: Voices and Visions about Homelessness. The documentary shares the stories of individuals experiencing homelessness in Ontario’s mid-sized cities, dismantling misconceptions while looking at the factors contributing to homelessness […]

Rethinking surveillance historically: From the medieval eye-of-God to the modern eye-of-power

Criminology Annual Lecture 2024 Date: March 14, 2024 Time: 3 - 5 p.m. Location: CLH (Curtis Lecture Halls) B Speaker: Professor David Lyon (Queen’s University). Professor David Lyon is the former Director of the Surveillance Studies Centre, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of Law at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. A pioneer in the field of Surveillance Studies, he has authored or […]

Twitter starts testing edit button; Canadian Twitter Blue users among first to access

Criminology professor Natasha Tusikov comments on the safety and productivity issues regarding Twitter’s new feature trial.  September 01, 2022  Author: Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press. “…The rollout of the long-awaited tool comes as Canada is looking to regulate tech companies and pressure is mounting to tamp down on online harassment.  “But if we're looking for […]

Prof. Mohamed Sesay wins Lee Ann Fujii Book Award 2021

Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Sesay, winner of the International Studies Association’s Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for 2021 for his new book Domination Through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa.  From the International Studies Association’s press release:   “This year’s winner, Mohamed Sesay’s book Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in […]

News Catchup with CRIM professor Natasha Tusikov

Criminology professor and Foundations Co-ordinator Dr. Natasha Tusikov’s research and commentary is in high demand. Her prodigious output of late includes an appearance on The National news program, in an article with Global News, and authoring and co-authoring a series of articles with CIGI – The Centre for International Governance Innovation – an international think […]

York University Criminology Professor James Sheptycki is the recipient of the 2021 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award for best-published paper of the year by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology for his essay titled “The Politics of Policing a Pandemic Panic.”

The essay was completed in early April 2020 and published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Sheptycki’s paper argues the politics of policing the pandemic panic reveal tectonic shifts in the world system. He explains how the COVID-19 virus “precipitated the first global police event presenting an occasion for researchers and scholars to apply existing theory and […]