Research Corner

The following reports are written by external subject matter specialists, who are contracted by the OFOVC to explore areas within their fields of expertise related to victimology.

• Compensating Crime Victims

  Compensating Crime Victims
  Prepared by Jo-Anne Wemmers, PhD
  March 2021

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• Not the ‘golden years’: Femicide of older women in Canada

  Prepared by Myrna Dawson, PhD
  Professor and Research Leadership Chair
  Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, University of Guelph
  April 2021

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• Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Canada

  Prepared by Dr. Benjamin Roebeck, Diana McGlinchey, Kristine Hastie, Marissa Taylor, Maryann Roebuck, Simrat Bhele, Emily Hudson, Riya Grace Xavier
  August 2020

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• Community-Based Anti-Violence Worker Wellness:
  A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime

  Prepared by : Kate Rossiter (PhD), Misha Dhillon (MA), and Tracy Porteous (RCC)
  April 2020

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• Understanding coercive control in the context of intimate partner violence in Canada: How to address the issue through the criminal justice system?

  Prepared by Carmen Gill, Ph.D. and Mary Aspinall, Ph.D. candidate
  April 2020

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• Sawbonna: Victim-led restorative justice

  Prepared by: Margot Van Sluytman, Poet, B.A., M.A.
  March 2020

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• Restorative approaches and gendered violence: Moving beyond is it possible? A Discussion Paper

  Prepared by Verona Singer, PhD
  31 May 2019

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