Katrin Roots
Areas of Expertise
- Criminology, Policing and Corrections
- Human Trafficking
Biography
I received my PhD from the Department of Socio-Legal Studies at York University in 2018. Prior to joining Laurier, I was an Assistant Professor at University of Manitoba's Sociology and Criminology Department (2020-2021); from 2019-2020 I taught at Brock University's Sociology Department; and from 2018-2019, I held a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at Carleton University's Legal Studies Department.
My broad research interests include legal regulation of gender, race and class; gendered violence; policing; courts; and, migration. The main focus of my research is on the legal regulation of human trafficking in Canada including legal and policy development, policing, prosecution and defence strategies. I am primarily interested in how the crime of human trafficking is being 'made' at the front-lines by police, legal actors etc., and what effects this has on sex workers, racialized groups, immigrants and other marginalized communities. I am a qualitative researcher with a methodological focus on court documents and trial transcripts.
Languages
- English
- Estonian