Message from the Chair:

Hello and welcome to the website for the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, St. Thomas University. The Department offers a variety of courses in Criminology and Criminal Justice from a theoretical and applied perspective.

The department’s faculty have diverse and exciting research interests and areas of specialization which offers students a truly multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Some of these areas of specialization include: Crime Prevention; Youth Rights and Justice; Criminal Law and Social Justice; Feminist Legal Theory; Offender Assessment and Classification; Effective Correctional Treatments; Ethnography; Theories of Crime and Punishment; Police Studies; The Influence of the Media on Crime; and the History of Crime and the Law.

Here is a sampling of the Department’s courses: Criminal Law; Young Offenders and Juvenile Justice; Police and the Canadian Community; Historical Reactions to Crime and Deviance; Victimology; Crime and the Media; Crime and Popular Film; Wrongful Conviction; Child and Youth Rights; Corporate Crime and Corporate Regulation; Organized Crime; Hate Crime; and Feminist Criminology.

I encourage students to consider taking either a Minor or a Major in Criminology. Students can also complete an Honours in Criminology. The Honours programme allows a fourth-year student to complete a thesis based upon original research on a topic that is chosen by the student, in consultation with a faculty member who has agreed to be their supervisor. The Honours programme is particularly suited to those students who are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Criminology and Criminal Justice.

The Department’s faculty are committed to teaching and research. Students should feel free to speak with any member of the Department regarding the courses that they teach. They are very approachable and enjoy talking with students.

I welcome questions and comments from current, and future, students about the Criminology and Criminal Justice programme. My e-mail address is: mboudreau@stu.ca.

I look forward to meeting you and I hope that you have a successful and rewarding academic year at St. Thomas.

Sincerely,
Dr. Michael Boudreau
Associate Professor & Chair