Boritch, Helen
Associate Professor
Criminology
PhD (Sociology)
University of Toronto
6-20 HM Tory Building
780.492.3561 phone
780.492.7196 fax
hboritch@ualberta.ca email
Research Interests
Professor Boritch is the author of Fallen Women: Female Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada. (1996, Nelson Thomson). She has conducted research on gender differences in criminality and socio-historical analyses of policing and crime rates in the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor Boritch has published articles in Criminology, Social Forces, Canadian Journal of Law and Society and Social Science History. Her future research projects include an examination persons sentenced to death in Canada from 1867 to 1976. She served on the Board of Directors for Edmonton's Women's Shelter from 1990 to 1996.
Selected Recent Publications
Boritch, H. (2008). "Women in Prison in Canada", Pp. 404-31, in C Brooks & b Schissel (eds), Marginality and Condemnation: An Introduction to Criminology (2ne ed.), Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Boritch, H. (2005) The Criminal Class Revisited: Recidivism and Punishment in Ontario, 1871 - 1920. Social Science History, 29 (1), 137-170.
Boritch, H. (1992). Gender and Criminal Court Outcomes: An Historical Analysis. Criminology, 30 (3), 293:325.
Boritch, H., Hagan, J. (1990). A Century of Crime in Toronto: Gender, Class and Patterns of Social Control, 1859 to 1955. Criminology, 28 (4), 567-599.
Boritch, H., Hagan, J. (1987). Crime and the Changing Forms of Class Control: Policing Public Order in 'Toronto the Good' 1859-1955." Social Forces. 66 (2), 307-335.
Boritch, H. (1988) Conflict, Compromise and Administrative Convenience: The Police Organization in Nineteenth Century Toronto." Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 3 (1), 141-174.