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Amanda Butler is an Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Her work focuses on improving outcomes for justice-involved individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. Her research interests include drug policy, care pathways, criminal justice diversion, and correctional programming policy. With expertise in mixed methods research, Amanda utilizes linked administrative health and justice data for population-level studies. In 2022, she was commissioned by the Attorney General of British Columbia to investigate and make recommendations concerning repeat offending and random stranger violence in the province. Amanda has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University, where her research was funded by CRISM, concentrating on opioid-related mortality among incarcerated populations. She is an Associate of the Access to Justice Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria and a co-founder of the Health Justice Applied Research Collaborative. She is currently accepting graduate students for MA and PhD programs.
Simon Fraser University • Burnaby, BC
Teaching and research in the School of Criminology.
Department of Philosophy