More than 80 community and academic experts from across the country came together earlier this month to discuss challenges and to share best practices around safety planning, risk assessment and risk management in cases of intimate partner and domestic violence.
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Dr. Elisabeth Wells has published an article in Psychology of Women Quarterly (2012) called, “But Most of All, They Fought Together”: Judicial Attributions for Sentences in Convicting Battered Women Who Kill.
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Dr. Myrna Dawson and Sarah Cahill, a Master’s student in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy program, University of Guelph, presented a paper called “Gender and sentencing: Do female homicide offenders received gendered treatment?” at the Law and Society meetings held in Hawai’i from June 5-8.
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Dr. Myrna Dawson and PhD student, Julie Poon, presented their research on specialized domestic violence courts at Congress 2012 held at the University of Waterloo.
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Leading crime experts will gather at a one-day Griffith University symposium on intimate partner violence and homicide in Brisbane on Thursday, May 3.
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The TC Beirne School of Law Distinguished Visiting Fellowship is an annual scheme which provides leading legal scholars of international standing the opportunity to visit The University of Queensland to conduct research in their field of choice.
