Marie Laperrière

• SOC 2510 - Criminology
• SOC 3740 - Gender-Based Violence
• SOC 3790 - Women, Crime and Social Justice
• SOC 7160 - Gender-Based Violence

Marie Laperrière joined the Department of Sociology and Criminology as an Assistant Professor after completing a Phd in Sociology at Northwestern University. Her current research examines the operations of treatment programs for perpetrators of domestic violence. She has ongoing interests in the politics of punishment, social policy, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, and gender-based violence.

• PhD (Sociology), Northwestern University
• MSc (Political Science), Université de Montréal
• BSc (International Studies), Université de Montréal

Research interests

• Punishment and social control
• Gender and sexuality
• Gender-based violence
• Law and society
• Qualitative methods

Refereed journal articles

• 2019. Laperrière, Marie, Ann Shola Orloff and Jane Pryma. "Commodification, Vulnerability, Risk: Gendered Social Policy Developments in the United States, 1980-2018." Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy 35(1): 41- 58.
• 2017. McCall, Leslie, Derek Burk, Marie Laperrière, and Jennifer A. Richeson. "Exposure to rising inequality shapes Americans’ opportunity beliefs and policy support. " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (36): 9593-9598.
• 2016. Laperrière, Marie and Eléonore Lépinard. "Intersectionality as a tool for social movements: Strategies of inclusion and representation in the Québécois women's movement." Politics 36(4): 374-382.

Book chapters

• 2021. Orloff, Ann Shola and Marie Laperrière. “Gender.” In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States edited by Daniel Béland, Stephan Leibfried, Kimberly Morgan, Herbert Obinger and Christopher Pierson, 346-363. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (Reprinted as “Políticas Del Bienestar Y Género” (Spanish) in Ciudadanías: Revista de Políticas Sociales Urbanas 7 (2020): 1-36.)
• 2019. Laperrière, Marie. “Paradoxes of intersectional practice: Race and class in the Chicago anti-violence movement.” In Intersectionality in Feminist and Queer Movements: Confronting Privileges edited by Elizabeth Evans and Eléonore Lépinard, 219-235. London: Routledge.
• 2019. Laperrière, Marie and Ann Shola Orloff. “Learning from Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State.” In Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue edited by Sven Hort, Stein Kuhnle and Per Selle, 269-285. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
• 2018. Laperrière, Marie and Ann Shola Orloff. "Gender and Welfare States." In Handbook of the Sociology of Gender edited by Barbara Risman, Carissa Froyum and William Scarborough, 227-244. New York: Springer Press.

Other publications

• 2020. Laperrière, Marie and Kartikeya Bajpai. "Bodies in Places: Addressing Domestic Violence in a Pandemic" Contexts.
• 2018. Laperrière, Marie and Ann Shola Orloff. "Gender and Welfare States. " In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer, J. Michael Ryan and Betsy Thorn. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.