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.
Sociology professor Myrna Dawson delivered an international presentation this week as part of the 16 Days of Activism for Violence Against Women.
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CSSLRV Director Myrna Dawson was Current Sociology’s Sociologist of the Month this October.
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CSSLRV researchers Myrna Dawson and Michelle Carrigan released research this month in Current Sociology that explores the utility of numerous sex/gender-related motives and indicators (SGRMIs) for distinguishing femicide from other homicides.
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A research project being led by CSSLRV Research Associate, Dr. Jordan Fairbairn, has received $191,096 from the SSHRC Insight program to examine media coverage of intimate femicide in Canada.
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Research this month was published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, analyzing police perspectives toward their own response to intimate partner violence (IPV).
Femicide, or feminicide as more commonly referred to in some world regions, has become a growing social concern for local, international organizations, and national governments leading to changes in legal and social response.
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New research funding has been awarded by SSHRC to a team of researchers who will examine coercive control, risk assessment and intimate partner violence.
CSSLRV researchers Jessica Whitehead, Myrna Dawson and Tina Hotton released findings this month in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, examining the prevalence and characteristics of same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada.
