Prof. Myrna Dawson was featured in a Jan. 26 Globe and Mail article on domestic violence prevention.

The Globe and Mail reported that Dawson, head of U of G’s Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, has recently launched the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability. The new observatory will document and tally femicide cases nationally for the first time, as well as the coverage and outcomes of these cases.

Dawson told the Globe and Mail that Canada has basic data about homicides but lacks more nuanced information about how women are killed, particularly in domestic homicides. She said better understanding of these cases will help in prevention.

In the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dawson studies lethal and non-lethal violence, especially involving intimate partners, as well as social and legal responses to violent victimization.