Sandra Lehalle has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa since 2007. She holds a European doctorate in Law and a Canadian PhD in Criminology. Her research interests lie in the policies and practices of detention by the State, including the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners. Through her research, Lehalle examines the complex relations between State authority and society by focusing on the role played by politics and the law – at the national and international levels – in the legitimizing process of State power and of its privileged repressive device: the prison.
