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The ‘intimacy discount:’ Sentences lighter for men who kill female partners

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CSSLRV well represented at Criminology meetings in Washington, DC

The Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence (CSSLRV) at the University of Guelph is well represented this week at the large, international annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) being held in Washington, D.C.

New study compares mothers and fathers who kill their children

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Project Aims to Reduce Domestic Violence, Homicide

A University of Guelph sociology professor will help to lead a new $2.2-million national project to curb domestic violence and homicide.

New findings published from Canadian study of parents who kill their children

A new study examining filicide in Canada has identified some possible emerging trends in these cases in research reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect.

Dawson delivers keynote at filicide conference in Italy

Canada Research Chair Dr. Myrna Dawson delivered a keynote address this week at a conference in the medieval centre of Prato, Italy, being held to address the socio-legal problem of the killing of children by their parents or guardians.

Andersen and Whitehead present research at regional conference

University of Guelph Master’s students Ilona Andersen and Jessica Whitehead presented their research earlier this month at the 3rd Annual Justice, Crime and Deviance: Regional Graduate Research and Networking Conference hosted by Wilfred Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario.

Fairbairn to present on OCTEVAW media hub to support reporting on VAW

Jordan Fairbairn, PhD Candidate at Carleton University co-supervised by Dr. Aaron Doyle (Carleton University) and by Dr. Myrna Dawson (University of Guelph), will present on behalf of the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) at the 5th Annual Impact of Family Violence Conference: Continuing the Conversation with Diverse and South Asian Communities.

Research team awarded funds to examine risk factors among domestic violence offenders

Canada Research Chair and Sociology Professor, Myrna Dawson, is part of a research team that has just been awarded an Insight grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a project entitled, “Examining the importance of dynamic risk factors for predicting recidivism and promoting change among domestically violent offenders.”

New findings published from study of violence against women in China

Canadian and Chinese colleagues have published new findings in the Journal of Social Work from a participatory project to develop appropriate social work interventions for women experiencing violence in Guangzhou, China.