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