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Churchill Fellow visits CSSLRV researchers

Churchill Fellow and Solicitor Julia Mansour from Women’s Legal Services in New South Wales, Australia, is visiting the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence at the University of Guelph this week as part of her North American tour to examine research and issues related to women victims of intimate partner violence who become defendants to either criminal charges or protection orders in domestic violence cases.

UG researchers to collaborate on grant examining domestic violence in the workplace

Centre Director Myrna Dawson and Belinda Leach, faculty in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, are collaborators on a recently-funded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant awarded to the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children (CREVAWC), Western University, to examine the impact of domestic violence on workers and workplaces.

Cahill awarded Blacklock Scholarship

Sarah Cahill, a second year PhD student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is the newest recipient of the Wilda M. Blacklock Scholarship.

Findings published from national study on police charging practices in IPV cases

Myrna Dawson, Director, and Tina Hotton, Research Associate, at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, recently published their findings in the first national-level, multivariate study in Canada examining police charging practices in cases of intimate partner violence.

Dawson and other speakers featured in AIC CrimBrief

Professor Myrna Dawson and various other international speakers were featured in the Australian Institute of Criminology CrimBrief this week in coverage of the homicide prevention conference held in Brisbane, Queesland in March.

Dawson to deliver keynote at Australian homicide conference

Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, Dr. Myrna Dawson, will deliver a keynote address this week at Griffiths University in Brisbane, Queensland.

Profs launch new website aimed at preventing domestic homicide

Read the full article, "Profs Launch Website Aimed at Preventing Domestic Homicide."

International comparison of domestic violence death reviews published in TVA

Myrna Dawson and three Australian collaborators have recently published their findings from an international comparison of domestic/family violence death reviews in Trauma, Violence & Abuse (TVA).

Sociologist explores a community’s ‘dark figure’ of crime

Read the full article, "Sociologist Explores a Community's 'Dark Figure' of Crime."

Dawson and Hotton approved for homicide survey pilot project

Centre Director Dr. Myrna Dawson and Research Associate Tina Hotton and have been selected to conduct research using Statistics Canada’s Homicide Survey as part of a pilot project being conducted by the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics in conjunction with Statistics Canada’s Research Data Centres.