Faculty and staff

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia (Canada), and a Senior Associate of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR). I have post-graduate degrees in criminology (M.A. from Simon Fraser University, Canada) and law (Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia). I have been very fortunate to live, work, and conduct research in several countries, including as a consultant to the United Nations in Jordan and as a gender and development specialist for the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines. I specialize in critical and comparative socio-legal research and human rights-based and evidence-informed criminal justice policy reform. I have worked on domestic and international research projects concerning alternative dispute resolution; Indigenous-led community-based justice; transitional (post-conflict) justice; and gender, migration, and human trafficking. I have published several technical reports and peer-reviewed articles and chapters on Canadian and international human trafficking laws, the international legal rights of children with justice-involved parents, and transitional justice. I have taught about twenty courses at five post-secondary institutions at all undergraduate levels. I also supervise undergraduate student research, directed studies, honours thesis, and graduate students.

• Ph.D, University of Melbourne
• M.A., Simon Fraser University
• B.A., Simon Fraser University

• Introduction to the criminal justice system
• Youth crime and the youth justice system in Canada
• Women, crime, and criminal justice
• Diversity, crime, and criminal justice in Canada
• Comparative criminal justice systems
• Terrorism

My current research focuses on the convergence of Canadian anti-trafficking with commercial sex work (commodification) laws, alongside the legal and human rights implications of the racialized, gendered, and sensationalized enforcement of these laws.  I have also recently worked on research projects on the international legal rights of children of justice-involved parents (ICCLR), child and forced labor in the context of global supply chains (ICCLR), and the exploitation of international university students in Canada (UFV).