Student/Faculty Co-Publications

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has a long history of faculty and graduate students co-creating knowledge. See select co-publications below. If you are a prospective graduate student, contact our faculty to inquire about research opportunities.


  • Johnson, A. and M. Dawson. 2023. Child Homicide in Ontario, Canada: Comparing Criminal Justice Outcomes. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2023.100625].
  • Boyd, C., D. Sutton, M. Dawson, Angelika Zecha, J. Poon, AL. Straatman, and P. Jaffe. 2022. Familicide in Canada: Comparing familicides to domestic homicides. Homicide Studies.
  • Dawson, M. and M. Carrigan. 2021. Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators. Current Sociology 69(5): 682-704.
  • Johnson, A. and M. Dawson. 2021. Child homicide in Ontario: Comparing characteristics of children killed by family members and strangers. Child Abuse Review [http://doi.org/10.1002/car.2674].
  • Whitehead, J., M. Dawson, and T. Hotton. 2021. Same-sex intimate partner violence in Canada: Prevalence, characteristics, and types of incidents reported to police services. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36 (23-24): 10959-10988.
  • Carrigan, M. and M. Dawson. 2020. Problem representations of Femicide/Feminicide legislation in Latin America. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9(2): 1-19.
  • 2020 Shakespear, Mark, Varghese, Jeji & Morris, Rosanne. We are Nature: Exploring Nature Conceptualizations and Connections through Children's Photography. Children, Youth and Environments.30(2): 1-29. doi:10.7721/chilyoutenvi.30.2.0001.
  • Bader, D., M. Dawson, and D. Walters. 2019. Does gender affect the number and type of charges laid in intimate partner violence cases? The British Journal of Criminology 59(6): 1347-1369.
  • 2019 Nuxnuxskaca cts’e7i7elt (Julianna Alexander), Sáwllkwa (Water), Natali Euale Montilla, and Thomas McIlwraith. “Doctors and professors aren’t the professors of the land”: Reflections on the Interconnected Environment with Splatsin Elder Nuxnuxskaca cts’e7i7elt. Collaborative Anthropologies. 11(2):1-25.
  • 2019 O'Grady, Bill and Ryan Lafleur. "Property Crime" in Understanding Crime in Canada (2nd Edition). Edited by Neil Boyd. Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications Limited.
  • Sutton, D. and M. Dawson. 2018. Do the characteristics of domestic violent incidents differ depending on the type and length of the relationship that exists between the accused and victim? Journal of Interpersonal Violence 36 (9-10): 167-191.
  • Dawson, M. and D. Sutton. 2017. Similar sentences, similar crimes? Using deep sample analysis to examine the comparability of crimes and punishments by victim-defendant relationship. International Journal of Crime, Law and Justice 49: 58-70.
  • 2016 Lafleur, Ryan and Bill O’Grady. “Making it on the Outside: Towards an Integrated Control Theory for Understanding the Reintegration Process.” Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. 55 (1-2). P.p. 41-56.
  • 2016 Smith, Natasha & Varghese, Jeji. Role, Impacts and Implications of Dedicated Aboriginal Student Space at a Canadian University. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 53 (4), 458-469.
  • 2015 Finnis, Elizabeth and Heather Millman. Livelihoods and questions of inclusion in urban and rural Paraguay. Anthropologica 57(1): 157-168.
  • 2014 Poon, J., Dawson, M. & Morton, M. Factors Increasing the Likelihood of Sole and Dual Charging of Women for Intimate Partner Violence. Violence Against Women. 20(12): 1447-1472.
  • 2014 Morton, M., Horan, M., Bergen, A., Crann, S., Bader, D., et al. Engaging Evaluation Research: Complex CU partnership reflects on our partnership & practices via domestic violence/sexual assault protocol evaluation research. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research & Engagement, 7 (1), 1-17.
  • 2013 Fairbairn, J. and M. Dawson. Canadian news coverage of intimate partner homicide: Analysing changes over time. Feminist Criminology 8(3): 147-176.
  • 2012 Humphries S., Classen, L., Jimenez, J., Sierra, F., & Gallardo, O. Opening Cracks for the Transgression of Social Boundaries: An Evaluation of the Gender Impacts of Farmer Research Teams in Honduras. World Development, 40 (10), 2078-2095.
  • 2012 Van Dongen, L., P. Carrington, and M. Dawson. "Missing persons and social exclusion." Canadian Journal of Sociology. 27(2): 137-168.
  • 2011 Parnaby, Patrick F. and Myra Leyden. “Dirty Harry and the Station Queens: A Mertonian Analysis of Police Deviance.” In Policing and Society. Policing and Society: 1-16.
  • 2010 Preibisch, K. and E. Encalada. “The other side of ‘El Otro Lado’: Mexican Migrant Women and Labor Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture,” Special Issue on Women in Agriculture. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 35(2):289-316.
  • 2010 O’Grady, Bill and Patrick Parnaby and Justin Schikschneit “Guns, Gangs and the Underclass: a constructionist analysis of a school shooting in a Toronto high school. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Vol. 55 (1) pp. 55-77.
  • 2009 Parnaby, Patrick F., Reed, Victoria. “Natural Surveillance, Crime Prevention, and the Effects of Being Seen.” In Sean Hier and Josh Greenberg’s Surveillance: Power, Problems and Politics. UBC Press, 2009.
  • 2008 Humphries, S., Jimenez, J., Sierra, F., Gallardo, O. 2008. Sharing in Innovation: Reflections on a Partnership to Improve Livelihoods and Resource Conservation in the Honduran Hillsides, in Louise Fortmann. Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. Wiley-Blackwell paired chapter with Correa, D., et al., with Classen L., Campesinos Cientificos: Farmer Philosophies on Participatory Research. In Louise Fortmann. Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • 2008 Classen, L., Humphries, S., FitzSimon, J., Kaaria, S., & Jimenez, J. Opening Participatory Spaces for the Most Marginal: Learning From Collective Action in the Honduran Hillsides. World Development, 36 (11), 2402-2420.