Nadine Deslauriers-Varin

Nadine Deslauriers-Varin is a criminology professor at the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval, and acts as a director of undergraduate’s criminology programs. She is an affiliated researcher with the International Centre of Comparative Criminology (ICCC), for which she is also in charge of the ICCC-UL Group. She is involved in other scientific committees and editing committees of different journals in her field. Her research work concerns criminal investigations and investigation techniques, crime prevention with a situational approach, the analysis of decision-making process and operating methods particularly in the case of sexual, violent, and serial crimes.

Most of her research projects are financially supported by granting agencies (e.g., SSHRC, FRQSC.) and are carried out in collaboration with government agencies in Québec and Canada (e.g., Police Services, ministère de la Sécurité publique). Her work has been published in several well-known peer-reviewed journals in her field, as well as in several books and book chapters, and has been the subject of numerous scientific presentations nationally and internationally.