The Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence was established in 2005 through funding awarded to Dr. Myrna Dawson from the Canadian Foundation of Innovation. The award was to support the stablishment of a research unit at the University of Guelph that would focus its research activities on understanding the impacts of social and legal responses to violence. In 2008, as part of being awarded a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice ( www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca ), Dr. Dawson received additional funding from the Canadian Foundation of Innovation to expand her Research Centre. The overarching objectives of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence are to create and mobilize knowledge about effective social and legal responses to violence through systematic and rigorous research, to transfer and exchange knowledge that can inform public policy which seeks to reduce and prevent violence, and to train future researchers who can further sustain violence prevention research. Along with many University of Guelph colleagues whose research focuses on various topics related to violence, Dr. Dawson, together with her Centre’s Research Associates and graduate and undergraduate students, has been actively working toward this goal, focusing in particular on violence against women in its many forms.
CSSLRV News
August 28, 2020Dawson & Carrigan identify femicide locally and globallyCSSLRV researchers Myrna Dawson and Michelle Carrigan released research this month in Current Sociology that explores the utility of numerous sex/gender-related motives and indicators (SGRMIs) for distinguishing femicide from other homicides. This |
August 26, 2020SSHRC funding awarded to examine representations of femicide in Canadian mediaA research project being led by CSSLRV Research Associate, Dr. Jordan Fairbairn, has received $191,096 from the SSHRC Insight program to examine media coverage of intimate femicide in Canada. Fairbairn, who is also an Assistant Professor of |
July 13, 2020Research examines police perspectives on challenges of keeping families safe from domestic violenceResearch this month was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, analyzing police perspectives toward their own response to intimate partner violence (IPV). Qualitative analyses showed many challenges police officers face in responding to |
May 25, 2020Carrigan & Dawson examine representations of femicide legislation in Latin AmericaFemicide, or feminicide as more commonly referred to in some world regions, has become a growing social concern for local, international organizations, and national governments leading to changes in legal and social response. This month, Carrigan |
May 20, 2020UNB-led research team will help develop police expertise in responding to intimate partner violenceNew research funding has been awarded by SSHRC to a team of researchers who will examine coercive control, risk assessment and intimate partner violence. Dr. Carmen Gill, a professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, and |
January 03, 2020Researchers examine prevalence, characteristics of same-sex IPV in Canada in largest peer review study of its kindCSSLRV researchers Jessica Whitehead, Myrna Dawson and Tina Hotton released findings this month in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, examining the prevalence and characteristics of same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada. Their study |