Caroline Erentzen

Dr. Caroline Erentzen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from York University and a JD from Queen’s University, with prior legal practice at the Ontario Bar. Her work bridges social psychology and law, focusing on wrongful convictions, jury decision-making, and the treatment of marginalized groups within legal systems. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and currently leads research on hate crime underreporting, gender-based violence, and legal inequality.

Research interests include the intersection of law and psychology, mechanisms of victim stereotyping, religious minority rights, and systemic legal biases. Her publications analyze wrongful conviction cases in Canada, online harassment of university women, and victim-blaming in Islamophobic hate crimes. She is affiliated with the Psychology and Law Research Lab (PLJ Lab).

No scientific awards are listed, though her work demonstrates impactful contributions to legal psychology. Advising and grants details are not explicitly provided, but her research suggests active engagement in collaborative projects. The PLJ Lab focuses on applied legal psychology research with community partnerships.