Public policies addressing violence against women has changed dramatically over the last few decades in a way that may be harming some women. In the case of intimate partner violence there has been a shift from police and prosecutor discretion to no-drop policies in which police are mandated to lay charges against the aggressor and prosecutions go forward regardless of victims' wishes.
Author: Holly Johnson, Department of Criminology
(in French) Bringing together many disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences, but particularly Criminology, this collective work takes a look at multiple social constructions of the deviant body, and on the female body in particular, revealing the interaction between dominant discourses and practices on the body.
Author: Sylvie Frigon, Department of Criminology
