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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Centre Research Associate Tina Hotton and Myrna Dawson have been selected to conduct research using the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) 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.
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Myrna Dawson’s ongoing research on intimacy, homicide and punishment was published this month in the Australia & New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
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Jordan Fairbairn and co-blogger, Tanya Castle, draw attention to a new campaign to raise awareness about violence against women.
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Myrna Dawson and Carleton University collaborators, Jordan Fairbairn and Rena Bivens, along with their community partner, the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women, have been awarded funding by Crime Prevention Ottawa to assess current research on the use of social media to perpetrate sexual and intimate partner violence and to identify current prevention efforts targeting these behaviours.
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Dr. Myrna Dawson and Tina Hotton, a Research Associate at the Centre, participated in the 2012 Crime Prevention Conference in Mississauga Friday.
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Drs. Myrna Dawson and Peter Jaffe have received funding from the Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) to support the design and launch of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Website.
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