CSSLRV researchers Anna Johnson and Myrna Dawson released research this month in Child Abuse Review that compares characteristics of child homicide by degree of intimacy between the victim and perpetrator.
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On World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD), the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime released its report, ‘Not the Golden Years: Femicide of Older Women in Canada.
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A new collection entitled, Young People Using Family Violence, was released today with Canadian research on child-to-parent homicide.
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A National Action Plan for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) was released by the federal government today, featuring short term goals, two years after the MMIWG released its findings and calls for justice.
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New research from across the country was featured in three sessions organized by the Canadian Sociological Association’s Violence & Society Research Cluster.
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A new publication released this month brings together researchers from around the globe in The Routledge International Handbook on Domestic Violence and Abuse.
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The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability released its third annual report today, identifying that, on average, one woman or girl continues to be killed every 2.5 days in this country.
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As part of the International Sociological Association’s IV (Virtual) Forum on Sociology, Prof. Sylvia Walby, City, University of London (UK) and University of Guelph Sociology Prof. Myrna Dawson co-organized several sessions for the new thematic group Violence & Society as well as the research committee Deviance and Control.
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A three-country collaborative reflection on the state of data related to femicide, family, and intimate partner homicide was released this month, identifying shared data challenges and the role of vicarious trauma inherent in prevention research.
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Sociology Professor and CSSLRV Director Myrna Dawson was one of 11 faculty awarded a Research Leadership Chair in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences this month.
