Catherine Evans
First Name:
Catherine
Last Name:
Evans
Email :
catherine.evans@utoronto.ca
Title:
Assistant Professor (Non-budgetary Cross-appointment)
Office Location :
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
Biography :
Catherine Evans’ research focuses on the history of criminal law in the British empire. She is particularly interested in questions of criminal responsibility, forensics and the mind.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
CRI215H1F Introduction to Sociolegal Studies
CRI392H1S Topics in Criminology – History of Criminal Justice in the Common Law World
Graduate:
CRIXXXXHS Guilt, Responsibility and Forensics
Publications
“Heart of Ice: Indigenous Defendants and Colonial Law in the Canadian North-West,” Law and History Review (Forthcoming 2018).
“At Her Majesty’s Pleasure: Criminal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain”, History Compass 14 (October 2016): 470-79.
Education:
PhD, Princeton University
People Type:
Roles:
Cross-Appointments:
Criminology
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