Dr. Shahid Alvi
Title: Associate Dean/Professor
Research interests: Violence against immigrant women; responding to hate crime; youth crime; and social exclusion.
Supervision Areas: Violence against women (especially immigrant women); Youth Crime; Crime and Social Exclusion.
Biography
Dr. Shahid Alvi received his BA and Masters degrees in Sociology
from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in Sociology from
Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
His current research interests include violence against immigrant
women, research methods, and the links between violence and culture.
His recent publications focus on poor minority women's victimization by
psychological and physical abuse, second generation crime prevention
through environmental design, women's victimization in public housing,
feminist routine activities theory, and resilience in battered women.
He is the author or co-author of numerous articles, book chapters,
and four books, including the recently released Under Siege: Poverty
and Crime in a Public Housing Community (Lexington Press), and Deviance
and Crime: Theory, Research and Policy (Lexis/Nexis). He recently
completed a research project on victimization of the urban homeless in
Durham Region.
Currently, he is analyzing data from another recently completed
project on immigrant women's quality of life and in particular, their
experiences of racism. He is also the 2002 recipient of the Critical
Criminologist of the Year award from the American Society of
Criminology's Critical Criminology Division.
Links of interest
None at this time.
