Dr. Krystal Batelaan is a critical theorist who uses a socio-criminological lens to examine colonial violence (particularly various manifestations of anti-Black racism within the CJS), with a focus on Canada's prison system and prison labour practices in Canada. In both her research and teaching, Krystal uses a theoretical lens to make sense of the every day sociological phenomenon that shapes one's lived experience through a deeper understanding of power, social order, and society.

Education

PhD, 2024 York University

Selected Publications

Batelaan, K. (2023).‘ It’s like living in a black hole’: Revisiting the use of solitary confinement
during COVID-19’. The Journal for Human Rights. 22(1), 1-18. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2023.2227204

Batelaan, K. (2021). ‘It’s not the science we distrust; it’s the scientists’: Reading the anti-
vaccination movement in Black communities. Global Public Health.17(6), 1099-1112. 
https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1912809

Batelaan, K. (2020). ‘When whites catch a cold. Black folks get pneumonia’: a look at racialized
poverty, space and HIV/AIDS. Social Identities. (27)2, 262-282.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1823827

Batelaan, K., & Abdel-Shehid, G. (2020). On the Eurocentric nature of sex testing: The case of 
Caster Semenya. Social Identities. (27)2, 146-165.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1816452