Céline Bellot


Céline Bellot 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.
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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. Her postdoctoral fellowship was at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
In 2021, Bellot won the Acfas Pierre-Dansereau Prize, and in 2024 she was admitted to the Royal Society of Canada as a fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences.
Bellot died from breast cancer on 4 January 2026, at the age of 55.