Anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Governing Board Chair, Massey College

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• Cannabis
• Crime
• Criminal justice
• Defunding police
• Drug policy
• Drugs
• Policing
• Protests and marches on both sides of the border
• Race and crime
• Race and ethnic relations
• Race and racism
• Racialized law enforcement
• Racism and criminal justice
• Rayshard Brooks
• Social policy

Office: 416-978-7124 ext.240
Website
Email: a.o.bempah@utoronto.ca
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Rinaldo Walcott

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science

Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

• Campus
  • St. George
• Department
  • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

• African American/Black cultural history
• African American/Black educational issues
• African American/Black film
• African American/Black politics
• African American/Black pop culture
• Black Lives Matter
• Equality
• Police brutality
• Race equality
• visual art

Office: 416-978-0400
Email: rinaldo.walcott@utoronto.ca
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Scot Wortley

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Centres
  • Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

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
Email: scot.wortley@utoronto.ca
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