Anthony Newcomb Doob (born 1943) is a Canadian criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies of the University of Toronto.
Doob is the son of Leonard W. Doob, a longtime professor of psychology at Yale University who served as the director of overseas intelligence for the United States Office of War Information during World War II.
[1] Anthony Doob earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and a PhD in psychology from Stanford University.
[2] Doob is one of the most prolific criminologists in Canada, and is consistently one of the three most cited Canadian scholars in the field.
[3] Since 2009, he has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Social Sciences.