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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Law and Criminology
• Homelessness, Crime Victimization and the Criminal Justice System

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Deviance and Normality I
• Deviance and Normality II

Awards & Grants

• 2001-2002 Co- Investigator with Clifford Shearing and Philip Stenning– "Communities Project: Order and Security Issues". Law Commission of Canada. $20,000.
• 2003-present Co-Investigator (with Janet Mosher)."What is a Crime?" research project. Law Commission of Canada. $33, 000.
• 2002-2004 Connaught New Staff Matching Grant Program: $27, 500 ($15, 000 from Connaught Program, $12, 500 from Social Science Division in Matched Funds).

Publications

• 2010 "Welfare Fraud: The Construction of Social Assistance as Crime" (with Janet mosher) in Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization. Pages 17-53. UBC Press: British Colombia.
• Hermer, J. "Policing Compassion: Begging, Law and Power in Public Spaces". forthcoming. Hart: Oxford. 195 pages.
• 2005 "Policing in Canada in the Twenty-first century: Directions for Law Reform" in Re-Imagining Policing in Canada. edited by Dennis Cooley. Joe Hermer, Michael Kempa, Clifford Shearing, Philip Stenning, Jennifer Wood. P. 1-91.
• 2006 "Justice and Injustice: Homelessness, Crime Victimization and the Criminal Justice System". Centre for Urban and Community Studies. Research Paper 207. University of Toronto. Sylvia Novak, Joe Hermer, Emily Paradis, Amber Kellen. 190 pages.