Curt T. Griffiths

Curt Taylor Griffiths (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Montana) is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Coordinator of the Police Studies Program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Among his primary areas of teaching and research are policing, corrections, comparative criminal justice, legal reform and capacity-building, enhancing the effectiveness of international development initiatives, and the dynamics of community justice.
 
Professor Griffiths has been a Visiting Expert at the United Nations Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Tokyo, Japan, and a Visiting Fellow at the American University in Cairo and at Tokiwa University, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. He has conducted research and evaluations and worked with justice agencies and community organizations in a variety of jurisdictions, including Egypt, Japan, Dominica, the Netherlands, and Latvia, as well as in the remote Canadian north.
 
Professor Griffiths is the author or co-author of more than 100 research reports and articles, and his texts for higher education include Canadian Criminal Justice: A Primer, Canadian Police Work, and Canadian Corrections (with Danielle Murdoch), all of which are published by Emond. He is a member of the editorial boards of The International Review of Victimology, International Criminal Justice Review, and Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.