Emma Smith

emma.smith@humber.ca

Associate Dean of Research and Development

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Biography

Emma Smith is the Associate Dean of Research and Development. She received her PhD from Toronto Metropolitan University and York University’s Communication and Culture program where she employed a cultural criminology perspective in evaluating the news media’s representations of a notorious serial killer. Emma has lectured in the fields of research design and methodologies, gender studies, sociology, criminology, and professional development at the undergraduate level. Co-receiving the Research Excellence Award by the President of Humber Polytechnic in August 2023, Emma is currently a Co-Investigator on a multi-method evaluation of the Toronto Police Service’s Neighbourhood Community Officer Program. The development of diverse and accessible research opportunities, for faculty, staff and students, remains central to her current role at Humber Polytechnic.
 
 

Publications

  • Thomson, D. & Smith, E. (2024). Community policing in Toronto: An examination of internal obstacles. Police Science: Australia & New Zealand Journal of Evidence Based Policing. (under review).
 
  • Smith, E.M. & Thomson, D. (2023). The Toronto neighbourhood community officer program and academic collaboration. Police Science: Australia & New Zealand Journal of Evidence Based Policing 7(2). https://www.anzsebp.com/police-science/
 
  • Muzzatti, S. M. , Colaguori, C., & Smith, E. M. (2023). Cultural criminology and popular media representations of crime. In C. Colaguori (Ed.), Crime, deviance, and social control in the 21st century: A justice and rights perspective (pp.113-152). Canadian Scholars.
 
  • Muzzatti, S.M. & Smith, E.M. (July 2018). “The spirits tell me that you’re seeking help”: Fortune-telling in late capitalism. In D. Waskul & M. Eaton (Eds.), The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History (pp. 116-135). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
 
  • Muzzatti, S.M. & Smith, E.M. (2018). Cultural Criminology. In W. S. DeKeseredy & M. Dragiewicz (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology (Second edition, pp.107-119). New York, NY: Routledge.
 
  • Smith, E. (2018) . Commodification of the body. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. (pp. 207-208). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

 


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