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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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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