Contact Us/Faculty

For more information contact the Program Coordinator Heidi Currie.

Lorree Bogden, MA (Simon Fraser)
Women in Conflict with the Law, Media and Crime
604-777-6158 or email
Experience includes running a reintegration program for high risk female offenders and counselling men and women in trouble with the law with addictions and anger management problems. Research interests include reintegrative efforts for federally sentenced female offenders, issues concerning women in conflict with the law and crime and the media.

Graeme Bowbrick, LLB (Victoria), QC
Administrative Law, Employment Law, Human Rights Law
604-527-5318 or email
Experience as a private practitioner and in government as a cabinet minister and MLA. Held several positions in government including Attorney General of BC and Minister of Advanced Education. Interests include development and implementation of public policy in the criminal justice system. Substantive law interests include constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, human rights and civil liberties.

Colin Campbell, PhD (Simon Fraser)
Canadian Gambling Regulation, Public and Private Law Enforcement
604-777-6160 or email
Experience includes research and policy analysis for private and public sector agencies, including the Commission of Inquiry into the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holding Society. Research interests include socio-legal history of Canadian gambling laws and regulatory policies, gambling and crime, and the political economy of gambling. View Colin's Faculty Biography. Read his story.

John Cater, MA Sociology (Windsor)
Youth Crime, Prostitution, Gangs, Serial Murder

Tara Chang, MA (Simon Fraser)
Youth and Youth Justice Issues, Criminological Theory
604-527-5563 or email
Coordinator for the Youth Justice Worker Program. Experience includes working with youth and young offenders in the courts. Research interests include youth, young offenders and Criminology Theory.

Heidi Currie, MA (Simon Fraser)
Mental Health Law, Mentally Ill Offender
604-527-5786 or email
Professional experience includes representing mentally disordered offenders at the British Columbia Review Board as a Legal Advocate. Has worked extensively with mentally disordered offenders in secure hospital custody and mentally disordered offenders living within the community. Interests include legal advocacy for the mentally ill, reintegration of the mentally disordered offender, risk assessment and public safety. Teaching interests include mental health law, mental disorder and criminology theory, and the criminal justice system.

Beth de Beer, MA (Simon Fraser)
Corrections, Female Offenders and Feminist Theory
604-527-5341 or email
Experience includes work in adult and youth probation, corrections and prison education. Research areas concentrate on correctional issues, female offenders, fear of crime and feminist studies.

Linda Fisher, MA (Simon Fraser)
Aboriginals and Criminal Justice Issues, Professional Skills Development
604-527-5302 or email
Experience includes research and policy development in northern and Aboriginal justice issues. Areas of research include Aboriginals and the administration of justice, and professional and job skill development for criminal justice students.

John Fleming, MA (Toronto), MEd, Counselling Psychology (British Columbia)
Addictions, Child Sexual Abuse, Professional Skills Development
604-527-5309 or email
Experience includes research and counselling in the areas of substance abuse, adults sexually assaulted as children, individual and family therapy for at risk youth. Research and teaching areas include personal wellness, ethics and professional practice.

Cynthia Fulton, LLB (Victoria)
Criminal Law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Administration of Justice
604-527-5301 or email
Experience in labour and administrative law as counsel to the BC Labour Relations Board and in criminal prosecutions as Crown Counsel with the BC Ministry of the Attorney General, as well as in private practice. Research interests include criminal law, the administration of justice, constitutional law and mentally ill offenders.

Kathy Heggie-Hunter, LLB (Dalhousie)
Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties
604-527-5310 or email
Experienced private practitioner and Crown counsel in the area of criminal law. Areas of interest include criminal and constitutional law, evidence, civil liberties, and young offenders.

Carla Hotel, MA (Simon Fraser), MEd, Counselling Psychology (British Columbia)
Youth Justice Issues, Family Violence, Addictions
604-527-5313 or email
Experienced in child and adolescent mental health, addictions, and family violence counselling. Research areas include community crime prevention analysis and risk assessment, alternative dispute resolution, youth violence and youth justice issues.

Hannele Jantti, MA (Simon Fraser)
Young Offenders, Aboriginal Justice
604-527-5319 or email
Experience includes child protection and social work for provincial government, and community work in substance abuse prevention. Research interests include Aboriginal justice issues and young offenders.

Randy Mackoff, PhD (British Columbia)
Criminal Victimization, Police Psychology
604-527-5336 or email
Experienced in private practice as a registered psychologist with the Canadian Registry of Health Care Providers. Research interests include criminal victimization and police psychology.

Noah Neaman, LLM (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Criminal Law, Human Rights, International Law, Environmental Law
604-527-5437 or email
Experienced as a private practitioner, courtroom duty counsel and criminal defense, Sierra Legal Defense Fund and Law Courts Education Society. Areas of interest include human rights, international law and criminal and civil law.

Christopher Nowlin, LLM, PhD

Michael Sporer, LLB (Alberta)
Law and Liberty, Private Law, Constitutional Law

Sussan Thomson, LLB (British Columbia)
Civil and Constitutional Law, Restorative Justice
604-527-5563 or email
Experience includes private practice, small business management, research and writing. Areas of interest are restorative justice and peacemaking criminology, community policing, Jungian psychology and process oriented criminology.