Wendy Chan is interested in the intersections of gender, race and class differences in the context of the criminal justice system, mainstream media, immigration and welfare systems. Her past projects have examined the criminalization of marginalized groups in Canada, focusing specifically on the ideological underpinnings of their treatment by social institutions and the state.

PhD (Criminology) University of Cambridge
MPhil (Criminology) University of Cambridge
MA (Socio-Legal Studies) University of Sheffield
BA, Honours (Law and English Literature) Carleton University 

Race, racialization and criminal justice; immigration policies, enforcement and control; welfare, poverty and social exclusion; criminalization of poverty; violence against women; domestic homicides; feminist and critical criminology

Books

•  (2020) Halifax: Fernwood Publishing
•  (2014) Co-authored with Dorothy Chunn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
•  (2007) Co-authored with Kiran Mirchandani. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
•  (2005) Co-edited with Dorothy Chunn and Robert Menzies. London: Glasshouse Press.
•  (2001) Basingstoke: Palgrave Press.
• Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada (2001) Co-edited with Kiran Mirchandani. Peterborough: Broadview Press.

• 2022 - 2025 Chairs and Directors Research Grant, Principal Investigator                
  鈥淏irth Tourism, Birthright Citizenship and the Socio-Legal Regulation of the Pregnant, Immigrant Women"