Kanika Samuels-Wortley

Kanika Samuels-Wortley is an associate professor in the Criminology and Justice program at Ontario Tech University, and is Canada Research Chair in Systemic Racism, Technology, and Criminal Justice. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (2021) from the University of Waterloo, an MA and BA in Criminology from Ontario Tech and the University of Toronto, respectively. She is a Visiting Fellow at Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in Canberra, Australia. Dr. Samuels-Wortley’s research explores the intersection of race, racism, and the criminal justice system. Her research aims to advance critical race discourse in Canada through empirical mixed-methods approaches. Through the Criminological Research Advancing Racial Equity Lab (cRARE Lab), Dr. Samuels-Wortley and her team engage in research to better understand how bias and discrimination impact racialized peoples’ experiences and perceptions of the police, courts, and correctional system. 

Her work has been published in prestigious peer reviewed journals, including Race and Justice, Crime and Delinquency, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.