Céline Bellot

Céline Bellot (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.

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.