Biography
Neil Boyd is a professor and Associate Director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, educated in psychology at the University of Western Ontario and in law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a previous director of the School of Criminology and the author of five books: Big Sister: How Extreme Feminism Has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality; The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent; High Society: Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada; Gently into the Night: Aggression in Long Term Care; and The Last Dance: Murder in Canada.; two textbooks, The Social Dimensions of Law, and Canadian Law: An Introduction (now in its 4th Edition), and many academic articles.
He is a frequent media commentator on subjects related to criminology: specifically, drug law and policy and issues of criminal violence and homicide. He has written articles about drug markets, heroin treatment initiatives, injectable drug use, responding to the threats posed by homicide offenders, and the linkage between drug use and homicide. He has recently completed a study of the Eron mortgage fraud, and is currently conducting a community impact study of the NAOMI heroin prescription trial in Vancouver.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Professional History
Awards, Honours and Grants
Community and Professional Activity
Books
Monographs
Articles
Appointments, Talks and Meetings
Education
1977-1979: Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.M.
1974-1977: Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B.
1970-1974: University of Western Ontario. B.A. (Honours Psychology)
I965-1970: C.J. Mackenzie High School, Deep River, Ontario
Professional History
1989 - Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University; Director, School of Criminology, 1987-1988, 1991, 1993-1996.
2004 - Chair, Graduate Committee and Associate Director, School of Criminology
1986-1987: Director, Criminology Research Centre, Simon Fraser University
1983-1989: Associate Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
1979-1983: Assistant Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Summer, 1974: Probation Officer (Adult) Ontario Department of Probation and Parole
Summer, 1973: Research, Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, Health and Welfare, Canada
Summer, 1972: Daily Newspaper Reporter, Stratford, Ontario; Stratford Beacon Herald.
Awards, Honours and Grants
2004: Named Honorary Director, B.C. Civil Liberties Association
2000: President's Award for Contributions to the Media and Public Relations, Simon Fraser University
1994: Annual Sorokin Lecture, University of Saskatchewan
1990: Award of Excellence, AMTEC
"The Last Dance: Murder in Canada"
1st Place, Educational Video, Canada, 1989.
1977: $5,000 LL.M. Entrance Scholarship, Osgoode Hall Law School
1974: Dean's Honours List, University of Western Ontario
1973: Dean's Honours List, University of Western Ontario
1973: Nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship, Department of
Psychology, University of Western Ontario
Community and Professional Activity
2001 to present: Member, Board of Directors, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (United Nations affiliate),Vancouver, B.C.
2001 to 2006: Member, Board of Directors, Western Society of Criminology
2002 to 2005: Member, Board of Directors, Greater Vancouver Regional District, and Councillor, Bowen Island Municipality
1988 to present: Radio and newspaper articles, television interviews, keynote presentations and community talks; approximately 100-200 per year
1988 to present: Reviewer, Donner Canadian Foundation, SSHRC, Social Problems, University of Toronto Press, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Journal of Law and Society
1984 to present: Papers presented at professional conferences (approximately two per year)
1984 to present: Provision of expert opinion evidence for courts, boards, commissions and tribunals
Books
Big Sister: How Extreme Feminism Has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality,
Vancouver, Greystone, 2004.
Canadian Law: An Introduction, 3rd Edition,
Toronto, Nelson Publishing, 2002.
The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent,
Vancouver, Greystone Books, (Paperback edition), 2002.
The Beast Within: Why Men Are Violent,
Vancouver, Greystone Books, 2000.
Canadian Law: An Introduction, 2nd Edition,
Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Canadian Law: An Introduction,
Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1995.
High Society: Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada (Paperback Edition),
Bantam-Seal, 1993.
The Last Dance: Murder in Canada (Paperback Edition, Revised),
Bantam-Seal, 1992.
High Society: Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada,
Toronto, Key Porter Books, 1991.
The Last Dance: Murder in Canada,
Scarborough, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
The Social Dimensions of Law,
Scarborough, Prentice-Hall, 1986.
Monographs
Responding to Aggression in Long Term Care: Lessons from Five Case Studies, Richmond, B.C., (Lead author, with Jan Mitchell and Aili Malm) Worksafe B.C., 2004.
Gently into the Night: Aggression in Long Term Care, Richmond, B.C., Workers' Compensation Board, 1998.
Articles
"In Favour: A Commentary on Gun Control", in press, Canadian Journal of Criminology, 2003.
"Rethinking Our Policy on Cannabis", Policy Options, 31-33, October, 1998.
"A response to Buckner", 38 Canadian Journal of Criminology 213-214, 1996.
"Canadian Criminal Law", in R. Silverman, J. Teevan and V. Sacco, Crime in Canadian Society, Fifth Edition, Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1996.
"A response to Professor Mauser", 37 Canadian Journal of Criminology 563-564, 1995.
"Bill C-68 - simple problem, complex solutions", 37 Canadian Journal of Criminology 214-219, 1995.
"Violence in the workplace in British Columbia: A preliminary investigation", 37 Canadian Journal of Criminology 491-519, 1995.
"Legal and Illegal Drugs", in M. Jackson and C. Griffiths, Canadian Criminology, 2nd Edition, Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1994, 361-380.
"Milgaard v. The Queen: Finding Justice - Problems and Process", (with D. Kim Rossmo), Burnaby, Criminology Research Centre, February, 1992 (33 pages).
"Drug Use and Violence: Rethinking the Connections", 3 Journal of Human Justice, (with Liz Elliott and Bob Gaucher) 67-84, 1991.
"Legal and Illegal Drugs", in M. Jackson and C. Griffith, Canadian Criminology, Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1991, 135-153.
"Sexuality and the State: Moral Boundaries in the Physical Realm", Canadian Journal of Family Law, Spring 1989, 353-366.
"Canadian Punishment of Illegal Drug Use: Theory and Practice", (revised from Journal of Drug Issues, 1983), in Illicit Drugs in Canada: A Risky Business, Toronto, Nelson, 1988, 421-435.
"Legal and Illegal Drugs: Discipline and Deviance", in V. Sacco, ed., Deviance: Conformity and Control, Scarborough, Prentice-Hall, 1988, 152-184.
"Reducing the Risks of Pleasure: Responding to AIDS in Canada", Canadian Public Policy (with Professor M.A. Jackson) December, 1988.
"Case Law and Drug Convictions: Testing the Rhetoric of Equality Rights", 29 Criminal Law Quarterly (with J. Lowman and C. Mosher), 1987, 487-511.
"Sexuality, Gender Relations and the Law: The Limits of Free Expression", in Regulating Sex, J. Lowman et al. eds, Burnaby, Simon Fraser University Press, 1987.
"Canada and Japan: Culture and the Criminal Law", Canadian Lawyer, May, 1986.
"Obscenity, Censorship and Violent Pornography: The Structure of Legal Language", York University Law Library Publications, 1986.
"Censorship and Obscenity: Jurisdiction and the Boundaries of Free Expression", 23 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 37-66, 1985.
"Sexuality and Violence, Imagery and Reality: Censorship and the Criminal Control of Obscenity", Working Paper #16, Ottawa, Research and Statistics, Department of Justice, 1985.
"Heroin Treatment in British Columbia, 1976-1984: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis?", 27 Canadian Journal of Criminology (with C. Webster and C. Millard) 195-217, 1985.
"Practical Reform for Marijuana", Policy Options, March, 1984.
"The Criminal Diversion of Licit Drugs: The Dilemmas of Canada's Health Professions", in The Canadian Symposium on Drug Diversion, Ottawa, Health and Welfare Canada, 1984.
"Sentencing Canadian Narcotic Offenders: Some Dilemmas in Judicial Interpretation of Legislative Intent", 48 Saskatchewan Law Review 353-359, 1984.
"The Origins of Canadian Narcotics Legislation: The Process of Criminalization in Historical Context", 8 Dalhousie Law Journal 102-136, 1984.
"The Supreme Court on Drugs: The Masters of Reason in Disarray", Canadian Lawyer, 7-11, March, 1983.
"The Dilemma of Canadian Narcotics Legislation: The Social Control of Altered States of Consciousness", 7 Contemporary Crises 257-269, 1983.
"The Release of Juvenile Delinquents from Places of Confinement: A Comparative Analysis", in Issues in Juvenile Justice, Toronto, Butterworths, 1983.
"Canadian Punishment of Illegal Drug Use Circa 1982: Theory and Practice", Journal of Drug Issues, Fall, 1983.
"The Question of Marijuana Control: Is De Minimis Appropriate, Your Honour?", 24 Criminal Law Quarterly 212-232, 1982.
"Osgoode Hall: Recollections of a Dream Factory", Canadian Lawyer, October 1980, 6-7.
"The Circularity of Punishment and Treatment: Some Notes on the Legal Response to Juvenile Delinquency", 3 Canadian Journal of Family Law, 419-438, 1980.
"The Cruelty of Benevolence: The Release of Delinquents from Ontario's Training Schools", 19 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 237-266, 1980.
"Ontario's treatment of the 'criminally insane' and the potentially dangerous: the questionable wisdom of procedural reform", 22 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Corrections 151-168, 1980.
"An examination of probation", 20 Criminal Law Quarterly 335-361, June, 1978.
Appointments, Talks and Meetings
Appointed as an Honorary Director, B.C. Civil Liberties Association, August 2004.
Elected as a Councillor for the Bowen Island Municipality in November of 2002, and appointed as Bowen Island's representative to the Greater Vancouver Regional District in December of 2002.
August, 2001, appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, one of the United Nations Network of Criminal Justice Institutes, based at the University of British Columbia.Continue to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for the Western Society of Criminology.
Simon Fraser University: Elected as Chair of the Graduate Program, and Associate Director, School of Criminiology, effective September 1, 2004