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Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

Associate Professor


  • 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
  • Public policy
  • 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
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jeffrey Reitz

Professor Emeritus/Emerita


  • Campus
    • St. George
  • Faculty
    • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Department
    • Sociology

Areas of Expertise

  • Human rights
  • Immigrant employment
  • Immigration
  • Immigration policy
  • Management of diversity issues
  • Multiculturalism in western countries
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Racism in Canada & improving efforts to combat it
  • U.S. race relations
  • Workplace issues

Office: N/A
Home: 416-465-5596
Mobile: 416-465-5596
Website
Email: jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jooyoung Lee

Associate Professor


  • Campus
    • St. George
  • Faculty
    • Faculty of Arts and Science
  • Department
    • Sociology
  • Centres
    • Centre for the Study of the United States

Areas of Expertise

  • Crime victims
  • Gangs
  • Gun Violence
  • Guns
  • Hip Hop
  • Mixed martial arts
  • Murder
  • Police reform
  • Racism
  • RCMP’s treatment of Indigenous people
  • Serial killers

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jooy.lee@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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