Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People

About Celine BellotMarie-Eve SylvestreNicholas Blomley

Marie-Eve Sylvestre is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and holds the Research Chair on Criminal Law and Policy and the Regulation of Marginalized People. She is also the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society and co-leads the Ottawa Hub for Harm Reduction. She currently acts as Justice Expert for the Commission of Inquiry into the relationships between Indigenous People and Public Services in Quebec. Her research focuses on the criminalization and regulation of poverty and social conflicts in urban public spaces as well as their alternatives. Nicholas Blomley is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University British Columbia. He is interested in the spatiality of legal practices and relationships and the worldmaking consequences of such legal geographies. Much of his empirical work concerns the often oppressive effects of legal relations on marginalized and oppressed people. He is the author or co-editor of five books including Law Space and the Geographies of Power (1994) and Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow (2010). Céline Bellot is Director of the Social Work School at the Université de Montréal and Director of the Observatory on Profiling (Observatoire des profilages). She is the Chair of the Center on Poverty and Social Exclusion (Centre sur la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale) and the Committee on the State of Homelessness. She holds a Ph.D. in Criminology and her research focuses on issues of criminalization of poverty including homeless populations Indigenous populations drug users and street youth.