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Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

Beatrice Jauregui

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Corruption
  • Police
  • Policing
  • Political-legal ethnography
  • Security
  • South Asia
  • State violence
  • Veterans

Office: 416-978-6438
Languages: Hindi
Website
Email: beatrice.jauregui@utoronto.ca
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Mariana Valverde

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Airbnb regulations
  • Alcohol issues (liquor licensing)
  • Municipal law
  • Public-private infrastructure partnerships
  • Urban order issues

Office: (416) 978-6438 Ext. 229
Languages: English,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: m.valverde@utoronto.ca
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Matthew Light

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Belgorod Oblast
  • Civil liberties in Russia
  • Corruption and crime in Russia
  • Criminal Behaviour
  • Criminal justice
  • International response to Russia
  • Law and Legal Processes
  • Migration
  • Migration and ethnic relations in Russia
  • North caucuses
  • Policing
  • Regional government and federal-regional relations in Russia
  • Russian law enforcement/policing
  • Specific regions of Russia, Moscow
  • Ukraine & Georgia tensions

Office: 416-978-7124 Ext. 227
Languages: English
Website
Email: matthew.light@utoronto.ca
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Scot Wortley

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community corrections
  • Crime statistics
  • Criminal justice issues
  • Immigration and crime,
  • Media coverage of crime
  • Penology (prisons)
  • Police use of force
  • Racial profiling
  • Racism in the criminal justice system
  • Youth crime and delinquency
  • Youth gangs

Office: 416-946-7428
Website
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca
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