Céline Bellot

Céline Bellot
Born1970 (1970)
Died (aged 55)
Academic background
Alma materUniversité de Montréal (PhD)
ThesisLe monde social de la rue: expériences des jeunes et pratiques d'intervention à Montréal (2001)
Academic work
DisciplineCriminology
Sub-disciplineCriminal profiling
InstitutionsUniversité de Montreal
WebsiteOfficial website

Céline Bellot FRSC (1970 – 4 January 2026) was a Canadian lawyer, criminologist and academic who was a professor in the School of Social Work at the Université de Montréal. She directed the Observatory on Profiling, and was a member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology.[1]

Life and career and career

Bellot was born in 1970. She received her doctorate in criminology from the University of Montreal in 2001 with a thesis Le monde social de la rue: expériences des jeunes et pratiques d'intervention à Montréal.[2] Her postdoctoral fellowship was at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1][3]

In 2021, Bellot won the Acfas Pierre-Dansereau Prize,[4] and in 2024 she was admitted to the Royal Society of Canada as a fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences.[5][6]

Bellot died from breast cancer on 4 January 2026, at the age of 55.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Céline BELLOT (IN MEMORIAM)". École de travail social (in French). Université de Montréal. Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  2. ^ Bellot, Céline (2001). Le monde social de la rue: expériences des jeunes et pratiques d'intervention à Montréal [The social world of the street: Youth experiences and intervention practices in Montreal] (PhD thesis) (in French). Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Université de Montréal. Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  3. ^ Hamon, Amandine (25 May 2021). "Épisode 5 : le profilage" [Episode 5: Profiling]. Centre International de Criminologie Comparée (Podcast) (in French). Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  4. ^ "Prix Acfas Pierre-Dansereau 2021" [Acfas Pierre-Dansereau Prize 2021]. Acfas (in French). Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  5. ^ "Royal Society of Canada Class of 2024" (PDF). Royal Society of Canada. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  6. ^ "Céline Bellot". Royal Society of Canada (in French). Archived from the original on 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
  7. ^ "Pionnière du travail social sur l'itinérance et le profilage, la chercheuse Céline Bellot s'éteint" [Céline Bellot, social work pioneer on homelessness and profiling, has died] (in French). Le Devoir. 7 January 2026. Retrieved 7 January 2026.