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Wendy Chan
Biography
Wendy Chan is interested in the intersections of gender, race and class differences in the context of the criminal justice system, mainstream media, immigration and welfare systems. Her past projects have examined the criminalization of marginalized groups in Canada, focusing specifically on the ideological underpinnings of their treatment by social institutions and the state.
Education
PhD (Criminology) University of Cambridge
MPhil (Criminology) University of Cambridge
MA (Socio-Legal Studies) University of Sheffield
BA, Honours (Law and English Literature) Carleton University
Areas of Interest
Race, racialization and criminal justice; immigration policies, enforcement and control; welfare, poverty and social exclusion; criminalization of poverty; violence against women; domestic homicides; feminist and critical criminology
Select Publications
Books
- Hiding in Plain Sight: Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence (2020) Halifax: Fernwood Publishing
- Racialization, Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada (2014) Co-authored with Dorothy Chunn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (2007) Co-authored with Kiran Mirchandani. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
- Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader (2005) Co-edited with Dorothy Chunn and Robert Menzies. London: Glasshouse Press.
- Women, Murder and Justice (2001) Basingstoke: Palgrave Press.
- Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada (2001) Co-edited with Kiran Mirchandani. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Awards & Funding
- 2022 - 2025 Chairs and Directors Research Grant, Principal Investigator
“Birth Tourism, Birthright Citizenship and the Socio-Legal Regulation of the Pregnant, Immigrant Women"
Currently Teaching
Summer 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.