Wesley Crichlow
Dr. Wesley Crichlow is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Science & Humanities, within the criminology specialization, at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (www.uoit.ca). He also currently sits as the Chair for the Community Advisory Board at the Toronto South Detention Center. He is also currently developing evidence-based research to inform rehabilitation counselling, residential treatment, interventions for gang-exit and offender desistance, as well as prevention programmes and policy that relate to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender and gender presentation, especially among racialized youth, for former and current LGBT gang-involved and incarcerated young adults. Wesley is an interdisciplinary youth scholar and community social justice activist who works with socially and economically disadvantaged youth, engaging in youth community empowerment.
"My academic life is a public expression of my commitment to equity and social justice and I dedicate my academic work to social justice, community- university collaborations, and effective community social justice empowerment models."
