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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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.
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Myrna Dawson was recently appointed as one of several Associate Editors for the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CJCCJ), a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published quarterly since 1958.
CSSLRV researcher Julie Poon, who is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, was lead author on recently published findings stemming from a study that examined factors affecting the likelihood of sole and dual charging of women in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV).
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Dr. Myrna Dawson and several Canadian colleagues have recently published new findings in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence from a project that examines violence against women in one province of China.
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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 San Francisco, California.
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