Dr. Caroline Erentzen
Biography
Dr. Erentzen is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, with a specialization in social psychology and the law. She received her Ph.D. from York University and a completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Toronto. Prior to this, she received a law degree from Queen’s University and practiced as a lawyer at the Ontario Bar. Her main research areas focus on the intersection of law and social psychology and the mechanisms underlying perceptions of victims of prejudice, hate crime, and legal inequality. Additional research interests include wrongful convictions, jury decision making, treatment of marginalized identities within the law, religious minority rights, and gender-based violence and harassment.
Selected Publications
Erentzen, C.A., Schuller, R.A., & Clow, K.A. (2021). Advocacy and the Innocent Client: Defence Counsel Experiences with Wrongful Convictions and False Guilty Pleas. Wrongful Convictions Law Review, 2(1), 1 – 21.https://doi.org/10.29173/wclawr40
Salerno, A.C., Erentzen, C., & Schuller, R.A. (2021). University women’s experiences with male stranger harassment online. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08862605211030018
Schuller, R.A., Clow, K.A., & Erentzen, C. (2021). Twenty years for nothing: An exploration of wrongful conviction cases in Canada. Criminal Law Quarterly, 69(1), 110-147.
Erentzen, C. & Schuller, R.A. (2020). Exploring the dark figure of hate: An exploration of self-reported victimization and police-reported rates of hate crime in Canada. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 62(2), 64-97. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj.2019-0035
Erentzen, C., Schuller, R.A., & Gardner, R.C. (2018). Model victims of hate: Victim blaming in the context of Islamophobic hate crime. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-24. doi: 10.1177/0886260518805097
Professional Affiliations
American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Social for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Law Society of Ontario