Dr. Myrna Dawson and several Canadian colleagues compare criminal justice and community responses to violence against women in Canada and China in two recent articles published in international journals.
Canada Research Chair Dr. Myrna Dawson delivers a keynote address on Thursday at a conference in Prato, Italy, being held to address the socio-legal problem of the killing of children by their parents or guardians.
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Rochelle Watt, a Master’s student in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy program at the University of Guelph, was recently awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for 2013-2014.
Guila Benchimol, who recently defended her Master’s thesis in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy at the University of Guelph, has been awarded a Wexner Graduate Fellowship from the Wexner Foundation.
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Next Tuesday, May 28, Jordan Fairbairn will present preliminary research findings from a community-based research project that explores the intersections of sexual violence, social media and youth.
Former UG Master's student, Jordan Fairbairn, and UG sociologist Myrna Dawson published research this month examining Canadian news coverage of intimate partner homicide in Feminist Criminology.
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Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice, Dr. Myrna Dawson, will deliver the opening keynote on Thursday at the Canadian Domestic Violence Conference 3: New Directions in Research, Practice and Collaboration being held at the Delta Chelsea in Toronto.
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Canada Research Chair Myrna Dawson delivered the keynote at a symposium held in Nova Scotia today called Domestic Homicide in Nova Scotia: Opening the Door to Change.
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This Saturday, February 8, Centre PhD student Jordan Fairbairn will participate in a panel discussion on "The Media's Role in Creating Stereotypes and Normalizing Violence" as part of Girls Night 2013 at the University of Ottawa.
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Sociologist Dr. Myrna Dawson and Western University colleagues, Dr. Peter Jaffe and Marcie Campbell published findings this month in the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice from a national knowledge exchange on domestic homicide review initiatives.
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