Colin Goff

Colin Goff received his M.A. from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. from the University of California (Irvine). He has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), and the University of Winnipeg. At the University of Winnipeg, he was Chair of Sociology and won the Clifford J. Robson Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. His areas of research include all aspects of the criminal justice system as well as corporate and white-collar crime, the history of criminology, and Indigenous justice. In addition to Criminal Justice in Canada, he has published Corporate Crime in Canada (with C. Reasons) and Corrections in Canada. He had an instrumental role in the publication of Edwin H. Sutherland's original manuscript on white-collar crime (White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version) published. He has also published numerous articles on Edwin H. Sutherland (many with Gilbert Geis), on the development of criminology as a discipline in the early 20th century, and on corporate crime in Canada. He is currently researching the development of criminology in the United States in the early 20th century as well as white-collar criminals in Canada. With the assistance of Gilbert Geis, he has published manuscripts on Edwin H. Sutherland, Thorsten Sellin, and the Michael-Adler Report.