Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
When the story of a family of four found dead in their home in Harrow – a small community in southwestern Ontario — broke on June 20th, police described the situation as an “unimaginable tragedy.” They indicated they did not Continue reading “No concern for public safety”
Those of us working in the field of gender-based violence have long seen the problems in the criminal law response to both intimate partner and sexual violence. Even those less intimately involved in this work saw firsthand the challenges in Continue reading Transforming law into justice: Part three of three
When, 30 or so years ago, I first heard about restorative justice as a possible way to deal with intimate partner violence, I was dubious. Like many of my colleagues, I was fighting for a more vigorous response by the Continue reading Transforming law into justice: Part two of three
In the past several weeks, two men have died while in prison: the man found guilty of killing three women in Renfrew County on September 22, 2015, and the man convicted of the murders of six women (of the 27 Continue reading Transforming law into justice: part one of three