Céline Bellot

Celine Bellot (1970-2026) was a Canadian lawyer, criminologist and academic who served as a professor in the School of Social Work at the Universite de Montreal and held the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She directed the Observatory on Profiling and was affiliated with the International Centre for Comparative Criminology; her doctoral research, completed in 2001, examined the social world of the street through the experiences of youth and intervention practices in Montreal, establishing her early expertise on marginalized populations. She won the Acfas Pierre-Dansereau Prize in 2021 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Social Sciences in 2024. She died of breast cancer on January 4, 2026, at age 55. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/