Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Dr. Anne-Marie Singh has an inter-disciplinary and international education with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Criminology from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of London. She has taught criminology and sociology at the University of Guelph, University of Toronto (at Mississauga), and York University before coming to Ryerson. She has taught undergraduate courses in the areas of policing, social deviance, theory, women and the criminal justice system, crime and criminal justice, as well as research-based courses.

Dr. Singh's research and publications concern contemporary social theory (especially the work of Michel Foucault), policing and governance. She is specifically interested in the role and interaction of various state and non-state actors in the field of security and the place of coercive practices in contemporary liberal democratic society. Dr. Singh has contributed to policing reform in post-apartheid South Africa and has written a number of policy documents on transforming security systems. While in the United Kingdom, she worked as a researcher for the Centre for Urban and Community Research (Goldsmiths College) on local security projects in London. She was also part of the Arbour Commission on the Prison for Women.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Kempa, Michael and Anne-Marie Singh. (2008). “Private Security, Political Economy and the Policing of Race: Probing Global Hypotheses Through the Case of South Africa”.  Theoretical Criminology, 12(3): 333-54.

O’Neill, Megan, Monique Marks and Anne-Marie Singh (eds.).  (2007).  Police Occupational Cultures: New Debates and Directions.  UK: Elsevier JAI Press.

Singh, Anne-Marie (2008). Policing, Crime and Coercion: Crime Control in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Singh, Anne-Marie (2005a). "Some Critical Reflections on the Governance of Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa." In J. Sheptycki and Ali Wardak (eds.), Transnational and Comparative Criminology. London: Glass House Press.

Singh, Anne-Marie (2005b). "Private Security, Crime Control and the Coercion of Bodies." Theoretical Criminology, 9 (2): 153-174.