The course will examine what is known about offending by youths and the various purposes that have been attributed to youth justice systems. The course will focus, in large part, however, on the nature of the laws and youth justice systems that have been designed in Canada and elsewhere to respond to offending by youths.

The course examines selected topics in the scholarly study of citizenship, including the history of citizenship, normative theories of democratic citizenship, rights and duties of citizenship, acquisition and loss of citizenship, and related issues, such as multiple citizenship, statelessness, and the international law of citizenship. Readings come from law, history, political science, and other disciplines; and cover Canada, other western societies, and developing countries. The course comprises three basic units: the normative basis and historical evolution of citizenship, including a case study of Canada, policies governing the acquisition and loss of citizenship in Canada and elsewhere, and the parameters of citizenship and lack of citizenship in the contemporary world. Students will gain an understanding of the historical evolution of forms of political membership in both western and non-western societies, the constitutive role of citizenship in creating and maintaining individual rights, and the development and contemporary regulation of Canadian citizenship in comparative international perspective.

Theory, research and policy related to the ways in which gender shapes criminal behaviour, the administration of criminal justice, and the criminal law. How notions of different types of masculinity and femininity are embedded in and influence both the operation of the criminal justice system as well as criminal behaviours. The regulation of gender and sexuality through the criminal law and through crime.

The connection between immigration and crime, the effect of immigration on crime rates, discrimination against immigrants, the representation of immigrants in crime statistics, public perception of risk and security, and criminal justice policy changes which affect immigration. We consider research conducted in North America and Europe.

Cultural constructions of crime, disorder, dangerousness and risk are integral parts of the criminal justice system. A critical analysis of how criminal justice personnel, the media, and academic criminologists construct their authority through symbols and images, in order to “explain” and manage crime, and how these representations are regarded in public discourse.

Criminal justice practice, as well as political debate concerning crime and criminal justice, are often influenced by ideas that are initially developed outside the criminal justice arena. This course examines the history, current influence and efficacy of a range of such ideas, such as: the role of religious practice in rehabilitating offenders; military service and participation in sports as preventive of delinquency; the influence of environmental pollution on crime rates; the concept of the ‘problem family’; intelligence based policing and the use of management theories in criminal justice organizations.

Note: The course may include an optional Service Learning component. If offered, additional information will be provided in the Faculty of Arts and Science's timetable.

Topics in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies offered in an international setting. The content may vary from year to year.
Details are posted on the Summer Abroad website.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. It is recommended that student approaches a Criminology and Sociolegal Studies Faculty member who might willing to supervise their work in CRI395H1. If student has found a faculty member willing to supervise their proposal, they must complete the application form with the help of their supervisor. A detailed description of the proposal is required. Enrolment is limited to students in the Criminology and Sociolegal Studies program. Students are not entitled to take more than 1.0 credit of CRI395H1 course.

Consult the program website for additional information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Credit course for supervised participation in a faculty research project. Offered only when a full-time appointed faculty member from the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies is willing and available to supervise. Students must contact faculty members currently teaching in the Criminology and Sociolegal Studies program to find out if there are any research participation opportunities available. Students requesting enrolment in a research participation course are advised to select an alternative course until the status of their enrolment is confirmed. Together with your supervisor, complete and submit a request for enrolment application form and the research ethics approval confirmation letter (if required). Submit the form by the beginning of the first week of the semester.

Consult the program website for additional information. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

An advanced seminar exploring in detail current issues in criminal law. The objective of the course is to discuss current policy and case law developments in the criminal law, and their social, political and ethical implications. The role of Parliament and the judiciary in the development of the criminal law is considered. Topics vary from year to year.

Seminar course exploring Indigenous law, settler state law, and the complex interrelationship between the two in Canada. Topics include: legal sources, forms and processes; sovereignty, territory and jurisdiction; treaty relationships; Indigenous peoples in international law; Indigenous rights and the constitution; environmental use, relations and protection; and Indigenous self-determination and governance.

A critical examination of the process by which certain conduct is identified, prosecuted and punished as “crime”, and the process by which individuals become “criminals”. The evolution of the modern prosecution system, including the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, rules of evidence, socially constructed defences, disparity in sentencing, and wrongful convictions.

An advanced seminar exploring the history and characteristics of organized crime and corruption.

An advanced seminar exploring the connection between neighbourhoods and the perpetuation of poverty, social marginalization, segregation and crime.
The course may include an optional Service Learning component. Check the timetable for details.

An advanced seminar exploring youth culture and its possible connection to criminality from an international perspective.

A critical exploration of contemporary debates in criminology, and legal and moral philosophy concerning the diagnostic and criminal justice labeling of mental disorders such as psychopathy and paedophilia, and their representation in popular culture.

This course will explore policing in a comparative and historical context. Issues to be covered include the following: the maintenance of law and order before police forces; development of police forces in continental Europe and the English-speaking world; structure and function of national police forces around the world today; the role of political and secret police forces; and contemporary debates on the mission and regulation of the police in contemporary North America including issues such as police-community relations, private policing, and counter-terrorism.

A supervised individual or group project under the direction of a faculty member from the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies. Offered only when a full-time appointed faculty member from the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies is willing and available to supervise. Students must contact Faculty members currently teaching in the Criminology and Sociolegal Studies program to find out if there are any individual or group project opportunities available. Students requesting enrolment in a research participation course are advised to select an alternative course until the status of their enrolment is confirmed. Together with your supervisor, complete and submit a request for enrolment application form and the research ethics approval confirmation letter (if required). Submit the form by the beginning of the first week of the semester. Form is available on the Program Office website.

Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

The meaning, purposes and sources of interpersonal violence, including an examination of debates over defining and documenting violence, and a review of the research on the relationships between illegitimate, interpersonal violence and state-approved or state-initiated violence. Cultural, social and individual correlates of interpersonal violence; the violence of the law; and how violence is justified and denied.

The course will examine selected topics in security governance. Complementing university courses on public or state policing, which emphasize the role of the state in maintaining public order, we will examine how security is jointly produced through the interactions of state, commercial, civil society, and individual actors. Topics to be covered include the following: the public police and theories of security governance, private and privatized policing, plural policing and other non-state sources of public order, and private ownership of weapons. Students should gain an understanding of the myriad ways in which the state and other actors interact to create, maintain, and reshape public order.

An introduction to interdisciplinary studies of law and space, this course covers a broad range of topics, from work on empire and colonialism by legal historians and indigenous scholars to studies of national spaces, urban spaces, and bodily spaces. Some background in either legal studies or cultural geography is desirable. Open to students in law, geography, anthropology, women/gender studies, and sociology, though permission of the instructor is required.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.

Topics vary from year to year. The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications.

The objective of the course is to explore emerging issues in Criminology, and their social, legal, ethical and political implications. Topics vary from year to year.