Marie-Andrée Bertrand

Marie-Andrée Bertrand OQ (June 12, 1925 – March 6, 2011) was a French-Canadian criminologist, a feminist and anti-prohibitionist.

In 1999/2000 and again in 2000/2001, she taught a course on "Gender, Colour and Legal Norms" in the Masters Program at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain.

The focus of Bertrand's research was on three areas: drug policy, the treatment of women by criminal justice agencies, and, more generally, critical, feminist theory concerning criminology and sociology of law.

Among her main works is an international comparison of female criminality (1979, 2003) and a comparative analysis of women's prisons(1998).

As a young professor, she served as one of 5 Commissioners on the Le Dain Commission, which was charged to look into the effects of non-medical drug use on Canadian society.