Mariana Valverde is a Canadian criminologist and sociologist. She is currently a professor in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research mainly focuses on the sociology of law. She is also an occasional contributor to Spacing magazine. In 2000 Mariana Valverde won the Herbert Jacob book prize from the Law and Society Association for her book Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Mariana Valverde is the daughter of Spanish poet and philosopher José María Valverde. Selected works Valverde, Mariana. (1991). The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada 1880s-1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Valverde, Mariana. (1998). Diseases of the Will: Alcohol and the Dilemmas of Freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Valverde, Mariana. (2003). Law’s Dream of a Common Knowledge. Princeton University Press. Valverde, Mariana. (2006). Law and Order: Signs, Meanings, Myths. Routledge. Valverde, Mariana. (2012). Everyday law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity. Chicago University Press. References External links Year of birth missing (living people) Brock University alumni Canadian criminologists Canadian feminists Canadian sociologists Canadian women non-fiction writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Living people Trent University faculty University of Toronto faculty Canadian women sociologists York University alumni York University faculty Canadian women criminologists