Amanda Glasbeek

Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies » Faculty & Staff » Faculty Profiles

Associate Professor
Criminology (CRIM)
On Sabbatical (July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025)

Office: 754 Ross Building South
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 77812
Email: aglasbee@yorku.ca

Amanda Glasbeek is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Science, and is appointed to the graduate programs in Sociolegal Studies, Sociology, and Gender, Feminist, and Women's Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist criminology, surveillance studies, and anti-carceral studies. Recent research and publications have focused on gender and CCTV, body-worn cameras in Canada (especially Toronto), defunding and police reform, and visual surveillance technologies, especially with respect to crime and policing.

More...

Degrees

PhD, 2004, Women’s Studies, York University
MA, 1992, Sociology, Carleton University
BA (Hons), 1989, Sociology, Trent University

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Community Contributions

Chair, Department of Social Science, York University (2022-2024; 2016-2019).
Senator 2022-2024
Member, APPC (LA&PS), 2021-2024

Research Interests

Crime , Gender Issues, Surveillance Studies, Policing and Abolition, Law & Social Justice

Books
Articles

Books

Publication

Year

Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca (eds). Criminalization, Representation, and Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, University of Toronto Press

2014

Amanda Glasbeek (ed). Moral Regulation and Governance in Canada: Historical Context and Critical Issues. Canadian Scholars Press

2006

Book Chapters

Publication

Year

He Said, She Said, We Watched: Video Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials. In A. Powell, A. Flynn, L Suguira (eds). Palgrave Handbook on Gender, Violence, and Technology, pp. 441-459

2021

Accountability, Discretion, and the Questions We Ask. In Bryce Newell, ed. Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Police Accountability (Routledge): 147-153

2020

History Matters. In Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca (eds). Criminalization, Representation, and Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, University of Toronto Press, pp 29-48.

2014

(with E. van der Meulen). The Paradox of Visibility: Women, CCTV, and Crime. in E. Comack & G. Balfour (eds). Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)Justice in Neoliberal Times (2nd edition). Fernwood, pp 219-235

2014

Women Gone Bad? Women, Criminalization, and Representation. In Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca (eds). Criminalization, Representation, and Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, University of Toronto Press, pp. 163-190.

2014

Monographs

Publication

Year

Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-1934, UBC Press

2009

Approach to Teaching

Previous courses taught:
1) Undergraduate:
*SOSC 4352 (Social Dimensions of Criminal Law)
*SOSC/CRIM 4661 (Surveillance & Crime)
*SOSC/CRIM 4656 (Gender & Crime)
*SOSC/CRIM 3654 (Politics of Crime Prevention & Security)
*SOSC/CRIM 2652 (Criminal Justice System)

2) Graduate:
SLST 6040 (Seeing Crime and Visualizing Justice)
SLST 6040 (Surveillance and the Production of Crime)
SLST 6030 (Politics of Security and Regulation)
SLST 6100 (Major Research Paper Seminar)

Degrees

PhD, 2004, Women’s Studies, York University
MA, 1992, Sociology, Carleton University
BA (Hons), 1989, Sociology, Trent University

Appointments

Faculty of Graduate Studies

Community Contributions

Chair, Department of Social Science, York University (2022-2024; 2016-2019).
Senator 2022-2024
Member, APPC (LA&PS), 2021-2024

Research Interests

Crime , Gender Issues, Surveillance Studies, Policing and Abolition, Law & Social Justice

All Publications

Book Chapters

Publication

Year

He Said, She Said, We Watched: Video Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials. In A. Powell, A. Flynn, L Suguira (eds). Palgrave Handbook on Gender, Violence, and Technology, pp. 441-459

2021

Accountability, Discretion, and the Questions We Ask. In Bryce Newell, ed. Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Police Accountability (Routledge): 147-153

2020

History Matters. In Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca (eds). Criminalization, Representation, and Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, University of Toronto Press, pp 29-48.

2014

Books

Publication

Year

Deborah Brock, Amanda Glasbeek, Carmela Murdocca (eds). Criminalization, Representation, and Regulation: Thinking Differently About Crime, University of Toronto Press

2014

Amanda Glasbeek (ed). Moral Regulation and Governance in Canada: Historical Context and Critical Issues. Canadian Scholars Press

2006

Monographs

Publication

Year

Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-1934, UBC Press

2009

Journal Articles

Publication

Year

The Haunting of Surveillance Studies: Seeing, Knowing, and Ghostly Apparitions Surveillance & Society 20 (4): 142-149.

2022

(with Mariful Alam and Katrin Roots). Seeing and Not-Seeing: Race and Body-Worn Cameras iin Canada. Surveillance & Society 18 (3), 328-342

2020

(with Mariful Alam and Katrin Roots). Time, Postcolonialism, and Body-Worn Cameras. Surveillance & Society 17 (5), 743-46.

2019

‘They catch you doing the simple human things’: CCTV, Privacy, and Gendered Exposure. Journal of Law and Equality 12 (Special Issue on Gender), 63-88.

2016

(with Jordana Wright, Emily van der Meulen). Securing the Home: Gender, CCTV, and the Hybridized Space of Apartment Buildings. Theoretical Criminology 19(1), 95-111.

2015

'An avalanche of tragedy': Modern Girls and the Murder of Mrs. Mick. International Review of Victimology 19 (1), 7-22

2013

'My wife has endured a torrent of abuse': Gender, safety, and anti-squeegee discourses in Toronto, 1998-2000. Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 24 (1), 55-76

2006