Marilyn Corsianos
Education
- Ph.D., York University, 1999
- Curriculum Vitae [PDF]
Interests and Expertise
- Justice/Legal Studies
- Policing and Police Organizations
- Civilian Oversight of Police and Courts
- Critical and Cultural Criminology
- Sexual Violence
- Intersectionality
- Action research
Professional
Dr. Corsianos’ research interests include institutions of social control, public and private policing, power, and violence. She has studied the police in the U.S. and Canada, focusing on police ethics and corruption, gender, discretionary powers, and community policing, and more recently on the role of bias in the criminal court process. She is committed to pursuing social change by identifying exclusionary practices in the production of knowledge and identifying more equitable policing and legal systems. She is the author of several books, including Violence against Women in Pornography (2016), The Complexities of Police Corruption (2012), and the award-winning Policing and Gendered Justice (2009). Corsianos has been recognized by the Division of Feminist Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, with the 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award. She is also the recipient of the Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Research Award from Eastern Michigan University (2016), and the EMU MI-ACE Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award (2022). Corsianos is the writer and producer of the documentary “Reasonable Doubt: The Role of Bias, Demeanor and Perception of Credibility in Wrongful Convictions” (2024) and is currently working on a book manuscript on the criminal court process, intersectionality and wrongful convictions.