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Research Clusters
Multi-faceted Expertise
The School of Criminology is a research-oriented institution that recognizes the importance of identifying and capitalizing on areas of strength. To this end, a retreat was held in December 2023 to pinpoint clusters of specialization that are well-represented across our faculty team.
One of our School's greatest asset is our diversity, which is reflected in our nine core research areas:
Crime Patterns and Crime Prevention
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Beauregard, Eric
Areas of Interest:Decision-making; offending process; modus operandi; situational approach to crime; sex offending; homicide; criminal profiling; psychology of criminal investigation; clinical criminology; typologies.
Email: ebeaureg@sfu.ca
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Kinney, Bryan J.
Areas of Interest:Environmental criminology theory; geography of crime; police studies; crime prevention and crime reduction; quantitative research methods; court sentencing patterns; historical criminology.
Email: bkinney@sfu.ca
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Linning, Shannon J.
Areas of Interest:Environmental criminology; crime and place; crime prevention; crime science; place management; urban redevelopment; community criminology.
Email: shannon_linning@sfu.ca
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Lysova, Alexandra
Areas of Interest:Family violence; intimate partner violence; female victims and offenders; male victims of partner violence; spousal homicide; international studies of violence; family violence in Russia.
Email: alysova@sfu.ca
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Morrison, Brenda
Areas of Interest:Social regulation; civil society; self-interest and interdependence; compliance and deviance; reason, emotion and behavior; restorative justice, particularly in the context of schools and education.
Email: brendam@sfu.ca
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Simpson, Rylan
Areas of Interest:Policing; perceptions of police; police organizations; legitimacy; experimental criminology; theories of crime; social psychology.
Email: rylan_simpson@sfu.ca
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Wong, Jennifer S.
Areas of Interest:Crime prevention/intervention; program evaluation; policy analysis; quantitative research methods; mixed methods; meta-analysis and systematic review; recidivism; intimate partner violence; media representation of crime.
Email: jenwong@sfu.ca
Criminological Theory & Social Justice
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Beauregard, Eric
Areas of Interest:Decision-making; offending process; modus operandi; situational approach to crime; sex offending; homicide; criminal profiling; psychology of criminal investigation; clinical criminology; typologies.
Email: ebeaureg@sfu.ca
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Bouchard, Martin
Areas of Interest:Social networks and crime; social and criminal capital theory; criminal achievement; criminal careers; gangs; the organization of illegal markets.
Email: mbouchard@sfu.ca
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Fabian, Sheri
Areas of Interest:Qualitative research methods; academic integrity; minorities and justice; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Email: sfabian@sfu.ca
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Griffiths, Curt T.
Areas of Interest:Comparative criminal justice process and decision making; comparative criminal justice; legal reform and community capacity-building; the design and delivery of effective development assistance initiatives; policing, including strategies for resource allocation and deployment; corrections, including the formulation and application of corrections policy and the effectiveness of correctional interventions.
Email: griffith@sfu.ca
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Linning, Shannon J.
Areas of Interest:Environmental criminology; crime and place; crime prevention; crime science; place management; urban redevelopment; community criminology.
Email: shannon_linning@sfu.ca
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Love, Helene
Areas of Interest:The law of evidence; criminal law; law and ageing.
Email: helene_love@sfu.ca
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Lysova, Alexandra
Areas of Interest:Family violence; intimate partner violence; female victims and offenders; male victims of partner violence; spousal homicide; international studies of violence; family violence in Russia.
Email: alysova@sfu.ca
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Morrison, Brenda
Areas of Interest:Social regulation; civil society; self-interest and interdependence; compliance and deviance; reason, emotion and behavior; restorative justice, particularly in the context of schools and education.
Email: brendam@sfu.ca
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O'Doherty, Tamara
Areas of Interest:Critical legal studies; criminal law; human rights and civil liberties; victimization and commercial sex; gender and law; mixed methods and legal analysis; evidentiary issues in criminal law; criminalization of immigration; human trafficking; and social policy analysis.
Email: tamara_odoherty@sfu.ca
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Palys, Ted
Areas of Interest:Research methods and methodology; sociology of science; aboriginal/indigenous justice and self-determination; sociology of international law; research ethics; research confidentiality and privilege.
Email: palys@sfu.ca
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Rault, Dawn
Areas of Interest:Animal law; law enforcement; population and public health; qualitative research methods, community based and participatory research; social justice.
Email: dawn.rault@sfu.ca
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Rowan, Zachary
Areas of Interest:Peer influence; co-offending; group behaviour; life-course and developmental criminology; intervention evaluation; juvenile justice.
Email: zrowan@sfu.ca
Corrections
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Bouchard, Martin
Areas of Interest:Social networks and crime; social and criminal capital theory; criminal achievement; criminal careers; gangs; the organization of illegal markets.
Email: mbouchard@sfu.ca
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Butler, Amanda
Areas of Interest:Mental health; substance use; drug policy; forensic systems; correctional policy and programming; prisons/jails; epidemiology.
Email: albutler@sfu.ca
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Helmus, L. Maaike
Areas of Interest:Offender risk assessment; sex offenders; statistics; prediction; recidivism; Indigenous offenders; meta-analysis.
Email: maaike_helmus@sfu.ca
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Morrison, Brenda
Areas of Interest:Social regulation; civil society; self-interest and interdependence; compliance and deviance; reason, emotion and behavior; restorative justice, particularly in the context of schools and education.
Email: brendam@sfu.ca
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Murdoch, Danielle
Areas of Interest:Corrections policy and practice; comparative corrections; prisons and incarceration; prisoner release and reintegration.
Email: dmurdoch@sfu.ca
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O'Doherty, Tamara
Areas of Interest:Critical legal studies; criminal law; human rights and civil liberties; victimization and commercial sex; gender and law; mixed methods and legal analysis; evidentiary issues in criminal law; criminalization of immigration; human trafficking; and social policy analysis.
Email: tamara_odoherty@sfu.ca
Cybercrime & Criminal Groups
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Bouchard, Martin
Areas of Interest:Social networks and crime; social and criminal capital theory; criminal achievement; criminal careers; gangs; the organization of illegal markets.
Email: mbouchard@sfu.ca
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Frank, Richard
Areas of Interest:Cybercrime; hackers' and extremists' use of the internet; data-mining and classification; computational criminology; environmental criminology.
Email: rfrank@sfu.ca
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Rowan, Zachary
Areas of Interest:Peer influence; co-offending; group behaviour; life-course and developmental criminology; intervention evaluation; juvenile justice.
Email: zrowan@sfu.ca
Forensics
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Anderson, Gail
Areas of Interest:Forensic science; use of science in criminal justice; forensic, medical and veterinary entomology; poaching/wildlife trade.
Email: ganderso@sfu.ca
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Beauregard, Eric
Areas of Interest:Decision-making; offending process; modus operandi; situational approach to crime; sex offending; homicide; criminal profiling; psychology of criminal investigation; clinical criminology; typologies.
Email: ebeaureg@sfu.ca
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Bell, Lynne
Areas of Interest:Preservation of biological signatures; characterization of microstructural arrangement of post mortem alteration; the relationship between microstructure, isotopic signatures and mapping human movement; and methodological development to extract isotopic and trace element information stored within the skeletal tissues.
Email: lynneb@sfu.ca
Law & Policy
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Bell, Lynne
Areas of Interest:Preservation of biological signatures; characterization of microstructural arrangement of post mortem alteration; the relationship between microstructure, isotopic signatures and mapping human movement; and methodological development to extract isotopic and trace element information stored within the skeletal tissues.
Email: lynneb@sfu.ca
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Butler, Amanda
Areas of Interest:Mental health; substance use; drug policy; forensic systems; correctional policy and programming; prisons/jails; epidemiology.
Email: albutler@sfu.ca
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Fabian, Sheri
Areas of Interest:Qualitative research methods; academic integrity; minorities and justice; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Email: sfabian@sfu.ca
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Greer, Alissa M.
Areas of Interest:Drug policy; policymaking; policing; critical perspectives; community-based research; qualitative research methods.
Email: alissa_greer@sfu.ca
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Hall, Margaret
Areas of Interest:Tort law; law and aging; mental capacity and undue influence; law and dementia; health law; supported and substitute decision-making; wills and incapacity planning; vulnerability theory and relational autonomy; qualitative legal research.
Email: mihall@sfu.ca
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Love, Helene
Areas of Interest:The law of evidence; criminal law; law and ageing.
Email: helene_love@sfu.ca
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MacAlister, David
Areas of Interest:Criminal Law; criminal procedure and evidence; civil liberties and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; sentencing; policing and police powers; criminal justice accountability; wrongful conviction; legal responses to terrorism; philosophy of law; legal aspects of youth justice.
Email: dmacalis@sfu.ca
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Morrison, Brenda
Areas of Interest:Social regulation; civil society; self-interest and interdependence; compliance and deviance; reason, emotion and behavior; restorative justice, particularly in the context of schools and education.
Email: brendam@sfu.ca
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O'Doherty, Tamara
Areas of Interest:Critical legal studies; criminal law; human rights and civil liberties; victimization and commercial sex; gender and law; mixed methods and legal analysis; evidentiary issues in criminal law; criminalization of immigration; human trafficking; and social policy analysis.
Email: tamara_odoherty@sfu.ca
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Palys, Ted
Areas of Interest:Research methods and methodology; sociology of science; aboriginal/indigenous justice and self-determination; sociology of international law; research ethics; research confidentiality and privilege.
Email: palys@sfu.ca
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Rault, Dawn
Areas of Interest:Animal law; law enforcement; population and public health; qualitative research methods, community based and participatory research; social justice.
Email: dawn.rault@sfu.ca
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Wong, Jennifer S.
Areas of Interest:Crime prevention/intervention; program evaluation; policy analysis; quantitative research methods; mixed methods; meta-analysis and systematic review; recidivism; intimate partner violence; media representation of crime.
Email: jenwong@sfu.ca
Policing
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Anderson, Gail
Areas of Interest:Forensic science; use of science in criminal justice; forensic, medical and veterinary entomology; poaching/wildlife trade.
Email: ganderso@sfu.ca
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Beauregard, Eric
Areas of Interest:Decision-making; offending process; modus operandi; situational approach to crime; sex offending; homicide; criminal profiling; psychology of criminal investigation; clinical criminology; typologies.
Email: ebeaureg@sfu.ca
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Bell, Lynne
Areas of Interest:Preservation of biological signatures; characterization of microstructural arrangement of post mortem alteration; the relationship between microstructure, isotopic signatures and mapping human movement; and methodological development to extract isotopic and trace element information stored within the skeletal tissues.
Email: lynneb@sfu.ca
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Davies, Garth
Areas of Interest:Terrorism; communities and crime; housing and crime; policing; criminological theory; statistical analyses and research methods.
Email: garthd@sfu.ca
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Greer, Alissa M.
Areas of Interest:Drug policy; policymaking; policing; critical perspectives; community-based research; qualitative research methods.
Email: alissa_greer@sfu.ca
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Griffiths, Curt T.
Areas of Interest:Comparative criminal justice process and decision making; comparative criminal justice; legal reform and community capacity-building; the design and delivery of effective development assistance initiatives; policing, including strategies for resource allocation and deployment; corrections, including the formulation and application of corrections policy and the effectiveness of correctional interventions.
Email: griffith@sfu.ca
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Linning, Shannon J.
Areas of Interest:Environmental criminology; crime and place; crime prevention; crime science; place management; urban redevelopment; community criminology.
Email: shannon_linning@sfu.ca
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Rault, Dawn
Areas of Interest:Animal law; law enforcement; population and public health; qualitative research methods, community based and participatory research; social justice.
Email: dawn.rault@sfu.ca
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Simpson, Rylan
Areas of Interest:Policing; perceptions of police; police organizations; legitimacy; experimental criminology; theories of crime; social psychology.
Email: rylan_simpson@sfu.ca
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
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Fabian, Sheri
Areas of Interest:Qualitative research methods; academic integrity; minorities and justice; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Email: sfabian@sfu.ca
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Love, Helene
Areas of Interest:The law of evidence; criminal law; law and ageing.
Email: helene_love@sfu.ca
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Morrison, Brenda
Areas of Interest:Social regulation; civil society; self-interest and interdependence; compliance and deviance; reason, emotion and behavior; restorative justice, particularly in the context of schools and education.
Email: brendam@sfu.ca
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Murdoch, Danielle
Areas of Interest:Corrections policy and practice; comparative corrections; prisons and incarceration; prisoner release and reintegration.
Email: dmurdoch@sfu.ca
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O'Doherty, Tamara
Areas of Interest:Critical legal studies; criminal law; human rights and civil liberties; victimization and commercial sex; gender and law; mixed methods and legal analysis; evidentiary issues in criminal law; criminalization of immigration; human trafficking; and social policy analysis.
Email: tamara_odoherty@sfu.ca
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Rault, Dawn
Areas of Interest:Animal law; law enforcement; population and public health; qualitative research methods, community based and participatory research; social justice.
Email: dawn.rault@sfu.ca
Violence
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Beauregard, Eric
Areas of Interest:Decision-making; offending process; modus operandi; situational approach to crime; sex offending; homicide; criminal profiling; psychology of criminal investigation; clinical criminology; typologies.
Email: ebeaureg@sfu.ca
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Davies, Garth
Areas of Interest:Terrorism; communities and crime; housing and crime; policing; criminological theory; statistical analyses and research methods.
Email: garthd@sfu.ca
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Fabian, Sheri
Areas of Interest:Qualitative research methods; academic integrity; minorities and justice; scholarship of teaching and learning.
Email: sfabian@sfu.ca
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Helmus, L. Maaike
Areas of Interest:Offender risk assessment; sex offenders; statistics; prediction; recidivism; Indigenous offenders; meta-analysis.
Email: maaike_helmus@sfu.ca
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Lysova, Alexandra
Areas of Interest:Family violence; intimate partner violence; female victims and offenders; male victims of partner violence; spousal homicide; international studies of violence; family violence in Russia.
Email: alysova@sfu.ca
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Mccuish, Evan
Areas of Interest:Criminal careers; desistance;developmental criminology; life course criminology; psychopathy; sexual offending; violence; young offenders.
Email: evan_mccuish@sfu.ca
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Wong, Jennifer S.
Areas of Interest:Crime prevention/intervention; program evaluation; policy analysis; quantitative research methods; mixed methods; meta-analysis and systematic review; recidivism; intimate partner violence; media representation of crime.
Email: jenwong@sfu.ca
We take pride in our faculty's expertise and dedication to these research areas, which enables us to better serve our students and community.